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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...
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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.
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.
Feb 26, 2011 · I received a progressive, liberal arts education, came of age in a post-feminist era, and have enjoyed the advantages of having been born into a culturally privileged family — yet it was scrappy, self-made James Ellroy, with his single-minded belief in manifest destiny, women in general and me specifically, who has helped me loosen my grip on ...
Schickel's memoir opens with the 40+ year old's affair with a legendarily strange, compelling older writer--a quite-famous mystery writer--succumbing to a blazing affair that seems fated, conditioned as it was by deeply hidden, unresolved, lifelong emotional wounds.
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Jul 20, 2023 · The book I am referring to is Erika Schickel’s The Big Hurt: A Memoir which concerns, among other matters, her turbulent love affair with James Ellroy. As this website is predominantly about James Ellroy, some readers may be surprised that I didn’t review the book at the time of publication.
Sep 5, 2010 · Los Angeles-born and -based crime novelist James Ellroy, 62, dissects his lifelong obsession with romantic love leading to his relationship with writer Erika Schickel in “The Hilliker Curse: My...
