• True Crime

    On The Ethics of Taking Writing Inspiration from True Crime

    "How do we ensure we do not become titillating in our re-telling?...And how do we give killers a human face without glorifying them?"

    August 4, 2023  By Victoria Selman
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    James Renner: 5 Books
    That Changed the Way
    I Write True Crime

    "The following writers never lose sight of the victim..."

    July 27, 2023  By James Renner
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    The Women Who Joined the Ranks of Latin America's Top Narco-Traffickers

    In researching her new book, Deborah Bonello found that women were rising through the ranks of Latin America's drug cartels. She wanted to know why.

    July 26, 2023  By Deborah Bonello
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    In Pursuit of the Lizard People, and the Dangerous Conspiracy Theories That Led to the 2020 Nashville Bombing

    In 2021, Colin Dickey went to Nashville to see the garage where Anthony Quinn Warner set off his bomb. He found a web of conspiracy theories, and city still unsure what really happened.

    July 20, 2023  By Colin Dickey
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    An Unsettling Conversation with Samuel Little, America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

    In Jillian Lauren's new book, Behold the Monster, she looks into the abyss in search of a killer's story.

    July 18, 2023  By Jillian Lauren
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    The Birth of Salon Kitty, Wartime Berlin's Premier Brothel and Nazi Spy Trap

    How Nazi leadership took their own twisted ideas about sex and applied them to domestic espionage.

    July 14, 2023  By Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr. Julia Schrammel
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    How Truman Capote Was Destroyed by His Own Masterpiece

    Inside a New Volume Reproducing the Original Manuscript
    of In Cold Blood

    July 10, 2023  By Ebs Burnough
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    Sarah Weinman on James Baldwin, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the Evolution of True Crime Writing

    A new nonfiction anthology shows the range and depth of today's true crime writing.

    July 5, 2023  By Sarah Weinman
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    Mark O'Connell on Walking Around Dublin Looking for a Murderer

    Malcolm Macarthur didn't talk to the press. So this would have to be something different.

    June 30, 2023  By Kevin Canfield
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    New Orleans Bounce and the Rise of Cash Money Records

    How the Williams Brothers came up through the streets and founded a record label icon.

    June 30, 2023  By Seth Ferranti
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