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Aug 12, 2021 · So wrote Erika Schickel in her application to the tony Buxton School when she was 14 years old. Four years later, just weeks before her graduation, she was asked to leave the boarding school...
- Donald Liebenson
Sep 1, 2010 · Now there’s another woman in Ellroy’s picture, the writer Erika Schickel. She was married when she met Ellroy, finding him in what he calls “the backwash” of Joan and Karen.
Feb 26, 2011 · Elaine Showalter and Erika Schickel on James Ellroy. I thought that Elaine Showalter had a reasonably ironic point when she talked about Ellroy’s latest plunge into narcissistic self-examination in James Ellroy, the Ancient Mariner of LA Noir. From the earliest days of his literary career, Ellroy was working out how to create a memorable ...
Oct 1, 2021 · When she was older, Schickel met notorious crime author James Ellroy — who she refers to as Sam Spade in her memoir — in the green room at the LA Times Festival of Books in 2007. She says he was wound up, distracted, and they made small talk.
Jul 20, 2023 · Erika and Ellroy meet at the LA Times Festival of Books and he tells her he’s writing a memoir titled The Big Hurt (which was subsequently retitled The Hilliker Curse, a book far more damaging to Ellroy’s reputation than this one).
Aug 10, 2021 · The Big Hurt looks at a legacy of female pain handed down a maternal bloodline and the cost of epigenetic trauma. It shines a light on the Manhattan haute culture class and the atmosphere of neglect in the 1970s and ‘80s that made girls grow up too fast.
Aug 10, 2021 · The Big Hurt tells two coming-of-age stories: one of a lost girl in a predatory world, and the other of that girl grown up, who in reckoning with her past ends up recreating it with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life.
