Tag Archives: LA Noire

‘White Rose’ and Other Stories

Black Dahlia & White Rose, a new short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates, will be published next month. The title story imagines an encounter between Elizabeth Short – the young woman murdered in Los Angeles in 1947, and known … Continue reading


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Marilyn and ‘LA Noire’

Read my review of ‘Black Dahlia and White Rose’, a new story by Joyce Carol Oates for the L.A. Noire anthology, here


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Black Dahlia and White Rose

‘Black Dahlia and White Rose’, Joyce Carol Oates’ short story for the LA Noire anthology – imagining a young Marilyn sharing an apartment with the doomed Elizabeth Short in 1947 – has been published in the Daily Telegraph.


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Oates Writes About Marilyn, Black Dahlia

Elizabeth Short, aka ‘the Black Dahlia’, was brutally murdered in Los Angeles, 1947. Marilyn was just beginning her career in Hollywood at the same time, and there has been much speculation as to whether she knew Elizabeth (although there is … Continue reading


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