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Aug 12, 2021 · In Her Memoir The Big Hurt, Erika Schickel Reframes Her Own Turbulent Story. “It was a real struggle to confront my demons and to write a book that is very sad and serious with moments of...
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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...
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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 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...
Aug 10, 2021 · It's about a woman looking back on her life and her relationships with men- her Dad, her teacher, her husband, her lover (coined Sam Spade but perhaps in real life James Ellroy?). It's about what women give up (themselves) when they are in relationships.
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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. The memoir is well written, and the two ...
Jan 1, 1970 · Audiobook. $5.95 $5.95 with discounted Audible membership. This complex memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and all of the later-life consequences that ensue.
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