Interviews and Reviews


	Los Angeles Times (West Magazine): On Top of The Underbelly - Weather-wise, it's a Sunday afternoon that could have been lifted from a long-gone Los Angeles: sunshine, sizzling blue sky, slight breeze. The air smells good—a touch of bus exhaust laced with Pacific. John Gilmore, all six feet and seven decades of him, ... Alex Ness: John Gilmore - ... JOHN GILMORE has cost me a lot of money. While his books are great, and I find them fascinating, I have talked about them enough to sort of friends, loaned the books out, and never get them back. This is especially true regarding SEVERED ... Los Angeles Times: LA’s Fatal Attraction - Angelenos have seen a fair share of captivating criminal acts. Beautiful victims and monstrous (or moneyed) suspects keep us enthralled. Yet few have the intrigue of the 'Black Dahlia.'... Weekly Alibi: An Interview with John Gilmore - In the 1950's Hollywood, John Gilmore was an upcoming actor living in the fast lane. Today he's an author remembering all the stars gone supernova.... Writers on Writing: The Valley of Death - John Gilmore has a deep and varied résumé: actor, screenwriter, director, pulp writer; true crime writer; novelist and writing instructor at Antioch University.... Black Dahlia Website: Interview - What inspired you to delve into the Black Dahlia murder case? Were you planning on a book all along? And did you know, from the beginning, you were going to become so involved with it?.... Index New York: Survival Guide: John Gilmore - Go With What You Know is the first rule pounded into any creative writing student's head. In other words, don't try hoodwinking the reader with tales told out of someone else's school, and it's a philosophy John Gilmore has adopted with a vengeance.... Dazed & Confused: Let’s Play Russian Roulette - John Gilmore is what you would call "connected" Circulating in an orbit-populated by the brightest and darkest stars of our time. He has consorted with movie stars and murderers... LA Noir: Beyond the Garbage People - Los Angeles is the city where the American Dream has been realized in the spectacle of Hollywood. Yet the Dream is only for the benefit of a few, whilst many are trampled underfoot. The city may be warm and sunny for most of the year, but sunlight casts dark shadows... Time Out New York: Hollywood Babylonian - The movie-going public may not recognize the name John Gilmore, but back in the '50s and '60s, if you were young, beautiful, famous and fucked up... Implosion Magazine: Sex, Death & the Hollywood Mystique John Gilmore has spent the last three decades - and five books - writing about death, celebrity and the ugly truth that hides behind the mask of Hollywood glamour.... LA Weekly: Hollywood Requiem - "PEOPLE TELL ME, ‘HOLLYWOOD HAS NO MERCY,’” author and L.A. native John Gilmore says on the telephone from his home in New Mexico.... Dead Beat: The Black Dahlia Murder - A Conversation with John Gilmore - On a typically mild winter evening right before New Year's, 1996, I stood at the comer of 39th and Norton in Los Angeles... Angry Thoreauean: An Interview with John Gilmore --So, you have a copy of the script? --No, actually, I have a copy of the Amok edition book. Donald Shepherd: Laid Bare - "The French have a name for this kind of writing–temoignage– the literature of the witness; crossing genre, autobiography or reportage... Gary Indiana: Laid Bare - I read Laid Bare straight through with stunned fascination. John Gilmore is such a terrific writer, and this book is so surprising. The opening chapter is really a masterpiece all by itself... Weekly Alibi: Fetish Blonde- Actor-turned-director-turned-journalist-turned-author John Gilmore is a troubled young man. Never mind the fact that he's in his 60s. Never mind the fact that he's long outlived his Hollywood contemporaries (James Dean, Janis Joplin, Steve McQueen, Lenny Bruce)... Village Voice: Laid Bare - There was a time when I thought too many people were getting sober. The whole world, I feared, would become boring prigs. Then I read John Gilmore's Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip and changed my mind. Open City: Severed - On January 15, 1947, a woman walked by a vacant lot and saw what she thought was a mannequin lying in the weeds. She thought it had fallen off of the back of a truck and broken in half, but upon farther inspection she realized it was a human body.... Sight & Sound: Laid Bare -( "Beautifully written in a style somewhere between Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski...") ... Publisher’s Weekly: Live Fast, Die Young - Although typical images of James Dean prompt thoughts of a rebellious young punk with a prickly attitude, Gilmore’s biography of the star proves that there was more behind that macho façade.... MRR Book Reviews: The Garbage People - Since the early 70's Charles Manson and his faithful family have been the subject of numerous books, from the self-serving (Helter Skelter) to the questionable (Manson In His Own Words)... Maximum Rock n Roll: Laid Bare - John Gilmore has seen the Hollywood dream come true. John Gilmore has also seen that dream turn to nightmare. This book of memoirs is his story.... Genesis P-Orriage: Laid Bare - Rejoice! Here it is at last--a terminally warped and believably mortal parade of the self-absorbed and dislocated; arisen deformed and degenerate from the casting couches... UK Bizarre: Severed - Elizabeth Short, whose bisected, mutilated body was left on the corner of 39th and Norton on 15 January 1947, has become Los Angeles’ most celebrated grievous angel. A beautiful would-be starlet New Times Los Angeles: Laid Bare CD - THE FIRST CD issued by Stuart Swezey's AMOK BOOKS slits open the pulsing heart of darkness that is La-La Land,