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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. She had two...
Aug 12, 2021 · The Big Hurt is a dramatic departure from her last “momoir” of edgily comic essays, You’re Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom (one critic called her “Erma Bombeck in leather ...
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Aug 21, 2010 · He is now with writer Erika Schickel, who left her husband and the father of her two daughters to be with Ellroy. Tellingly, Knode told Ellroy that Schickel bore a marked resemblance to...
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.
Aug 10, 2021 · The second affair—with a thinly disguised James Ellroy (whom she refers to as Sam Spade, the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon )—repeated some of the abusive patterns of the first, though it took Schickel many years to recognize that her teacher had, in fact, abused her.
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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.
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women is a work of memoir and autobiography by American author James Ellroy published in 2010. Ellroy dedicated the memoir " To Erika Schickel ." The epigraph for The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women is "I will take Fate by the throat.
