Ellroy Reads – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy

For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads I take a look at Horace McCoy’s classic hardboiled novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? McCoy’s acerbic portrayal of the Dance Marathon craze of Depression-era America was influential on French existentialist thinkers and the noir philosophy in general. James Ellroy has named it as one of the important novels in the noir genre.

It’s one of the all-time great stories.