You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm writer, filmmaker, and book to power, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brigrant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode we're talking

about book blurbs and interviewing publicist at Norton, Will Scarlet. But first,

what are you reading, Brua? I just finished this book called The Manson Women and Me, Monsters Morality and Murder,

by Nicky Meredith.

Do you have you know this book?

It just came out, like Glass Month.

Yeah, but I haven't read it yet so Nicky

Meredith is a journalist and she is um of similar age as the two man's own women

who are left in prison which is Leslie Van Houghton and Patricia

Krenwinkle I think is how you say her name and she also went to Hollywood High

which is where one of the women who recruited those two women to the Manson group

went so she has this like weird relationship with them because she feels like I

think she never says this in the book but she kind of feels like they could easily be

her you know like she they just like had this different path, obviously.

It's a very different path. And also her brother was in the, uh, in the prison system for a long time so she talks about that so essentially

she talks about how people really don't like the Manson women for obvious

reasons I'm just gonna say and people and when people they didn't try real hard to say. And people and when she

tells people she's writing and they've never been allowed out of prison and but

they appeal all the time trying to get out of prison and she when she tells people

she's writing this book, people are like,

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