Here’s a link to another recently published something: a review in Bookforum of James Ellroy’s new memoir, the Hilliker Curse. Subtitled “My Pursuit of Women,” it’s essentially that — a twisty travelogue through his romantic life. It’s not an easy ride, though there’s much to enjoy about it. And, interestingly, for all the torment love and lust have caused the man, they seem to be doing well by him. My friend Seth said it well (OK, he “said” it on Facebook…):

“I think his simultaneous awareness of and total inability (or lack of desire) to overcome his own juggernaut pathology does make an important point. These experiences of gender, power and love loom so huge in people’s lives that they become living myths. Awareness by itself isn’t usually enough to change them. Though it can–almost parasitically– profit from them.”