I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

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