Bay City

Nathaniel Rich interviewed James Ellroy for The Paris Review. In the introduction Rich described some of Ellroy's activities during the week Rich spent in Los Angeles for the interview. The behavior included:

He talked to women -- on the phone, in restaurants, in his apartment. Late one night he drove to the house of his girlfriend. The lights were on: the woman, her husband, and their children were inside. Ellroy opened the window of his car and proceeded to bay like a dog. He drove around the block and howled again. The he did it a third time. The girlfriend called him the next day, laughing. Apparently he bayed at her several times a month. They had a unique arrangement.