Ep. 27 Talking Investigative Journalism with Nancy Rommelmann
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week we are joined by author and journalist, Nancy Rommelmann. Nancy talks to us about her newest book To The Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder, her process as an investigative journalist, and about the time she traveled to see John Wayne Gacy on death row.
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| 0:16.1 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast all about books. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and this week we are joined by author and journalist Nancy Rommelman. Are you a member of the Stacks Pack? We're launching something brand new. |
| 0:21.4 | Group video chats to discuss the Stacks Book Club picks with members of the Stacks Pack. |
| 0:26.0 | So go join today and be a part of these awesome discussions. |
| 0:30.0 | We're starting next week with our first chat about bad blood by John Kerryru. |
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| 0:49.7 | show. All right now let's get started. This week's guest is Nancy Rommelman. |
| 0:55.2 | She is a journalist and the author of a new true crime book called To The Bridge and I'm |
| 1:00.9 | very excited for you all to meet her. Let's do it. |
| 1:04.0 | Hi everybody. I am here today with Nancy Ramelman, who is a writer and journalist whose work has |
| 1:14.8 | appeared at the LA Times, LA Weekly, New York Times magazine, and more. Her |
| 1:19.3 | most recent book, To The Bridge, A True Story of Motherhood and Murder murder came out earlier this summer and we'll be getting to that soon but first |
| 1:26.2 | Hi Nancy welcome Tracy thank you for having me I am so excited you're here I I really want to talk about your book but we're going to start with talking about you. So tell me a little bit or tell us a little bit about yourself. |
| 1:38.1 | I'm a New York City girl. Went from New York to Los Angeles and spent 18 years here. |
| 1:45.0 | That's where I started my writing career, writing a lot for the LA Weekly and other publications. |
| 1:50.0 | In 2004, my husband and I moved up to Portland, Oregon. |
| 1:54.0 | I've been living there, but now I'm sort of bi-coastal between New York City and Portland. |
| 1:58.0 | Oh, that's so nice. |
| 1:59.0 | Still writing. |
| 2:00.0 | That's like the best of both worlds, the city and then like Portland's almost like the country. |
| 2:04.4 | It is, you come back and I love, like New York is in my blood, I get there, I feel completely normal. |
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