Linda Fairstein

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

Over Drinks, Books, Tv & Film, Novels, Lounge, Doug Brunt, Megyn Kelly, Author, Cocktail, Arts, Book

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Linda discusses founding the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan DA’s office - first in the nation - and when Mariska Hargitay and Dick Wolf shadowed her to help develop the concept for the new show Law & Order: SVU, recounts writing her first novels while still working more than full time as a prosecutor, her writing process for her bestselling Alex Cooper novels, addresses the responsibility of filmmakers of the growing number of docu-series that are often fictionalized for dramatic effect and the mounting number of lawsuits against Netflix, her all-star dinner group of top mystery writers (including Nelson DeMille, Lee Child, Harlan Coben and Mary Higgins Clark), and Linda and I make a toast to the memory of the great Nelson DeMille.

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0:00.0	Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the SiriusXM app, and you can see us in studio.
0:18.6	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:21.9	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 Front. Today, it's my honor to have Linda
0:45.2	Fairstein with us. She is an attorney and best-selling author. She was the founder and head
0:50.4	of the Sex Crimes Unit of the Manhattan DA's office from 1976 to 2002.
0:55.7	She's also the author of 24 books, 20 books in the Alex Cooper Crime Series, which is
1:01.7	Alex Cooper is a prosecutor for the Manhattan attorney's office.
1:05.5	So Linda draws on her vast firsthand experience to write those novels.
1:10.3	Linda, it's a pleasure to have you here.
1:11.5	Thanks for coming in. Just a joy for me to be here on a book show. Thank you. We need more book shows, as we were just discussing. Me and my youth, and it's fabulous that you do this. So interesting to watch other authors talk about their work, and you bring it all out. Well, thanks. Well, and as you know, one of the, one of the bargains in all this is we all get a cocktail to start out. And like Alex Cooper, we're going to drink a little doer scotch. We are. And also like our mutual friend Nelson DeBill, when I was actually setting up the bar, I realized I don't drink a lot of scotch. And so this is the same bottle that Nelson and I shared a drink.
1:48.6	And Nelson's a dear friend.
1:49.5	And you go back with Nelson far longer than I do.
1:52.5	So I thought we could have a little toast to Nelson, too.
1:55.0	Great idea.
1:56.5	I miss.
1:57.2	I was a beautiful service for Nelson that we, were you and I
2:03.6	reconnected. Yes. Yes. And I thought the priest, by making it so personal, it was an unusual
2:09.4	mass ceremony. Yeah. And he talked about the fact that he never ran one of Nelson's book
2:16.0	and how that upset Nelson.
2:17.9	So that rang very true.
2:19.5	And so I think he agreed.
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