Alafair Burke

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

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5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Alafair Burke: Vesper Martini (2 ounces gin, 3/4 ounce vodka, 1/2 ounce Lillet Blanc) Alafair reveals the haunting impressions of growing up in Kansas during the active period of the BTK serial killer and how that time influenced her path to practicing law and writing crime novels, how she applies her experience as a DA to the pages of her crime thrillers, the differences between writing the novel and writing for film and TV, how she might pick the perfect writers' room, how her very successful novelist father feels about her very successful novelist career (and which movie stars her father resembles), and offers a great piece of advice at the end of the show (and at the end of the martini).

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0:00.0	Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside
0:06.0	the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations
0:10.7	with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the Sirius XM app, and you can
0:16.5	see us in studio. Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:22.1	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind the scenes revelations.
0:41.5	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today, I'm thrilled to be with Alifair Burke.
0:46.1	She is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books, which includes several
0:50.3	that she co-authored with the great Mary Higgins-Clark. She graduated from Stanford Law School.
0:55.5	She has clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hugely impressive.
1:00.1	She's a professor of law at Hofstra. She has also served as president of the mystery writers of
1:05.2	America. She has been on the board of the Authors Guild. And on top of all that, within the
1:10.2	community of writers, she is one of the most respected and well And on top of all that, within the community of writers,
1:11.5	she is one of the most respected and well-liked writers out there. So, Alifert, welcome. That's the most important thing of all. And it's true. You know, you and I know each other a little bit. We've met a few times at things over the years. But every time I talk to someone, they're like, do you know Alifair Burke, she is the best.
1:08.6	You've got to know her.
1:09.5	And I swear I hear that.
1:11.0	I've heard that dozens of times.
1:12.2	Oh, that's so got to know her.
1:28.1	And I swear I hear that.
1:29.5	I've heard that dozens of times.
1:30.7	Oh, that's so nice to hear you.
1:31.7	You're so well regarded. And we have so many mutual friends. So it's nice to have a longer amount of time to sit with you. Speaking of, I think, one of our mutual friends, you are not the first Vesper Martini on the show.
1:30.2	Lawrence Wright chose the V Vesper Martini on the show Lawrence Wright chose the Vesper
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