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The Book Review

Marilyn Stasio on True Crime

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Stasio discusses new books about real crimes, and Dave Eggers talks about his two new illustrated books.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's the latest in true crime?

0:07.3

You get involved in a way that I think you've done with the fiction.

0:12.5

And with the fiction, I'm always conscious of how the story is being told.

0:16.5

Our colonist, Marilyn Stasio, is here to give you the real life chills just in time for

0:20.8

Halloween.

0:21.8

Why did Dave Eggers turn to illustration and two new books out this fall?

0:26.4

I know my limitations.

0:28.1

I was an illustrator and a cartoonist for a lot of years, but I wasn't very good most

0:33.6

of that time.

0:34.6

Dave will join us to talk about the power of pictures.

0:37.4

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

0:40.6

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

0:42.4

I'm Pamela Paul.

0:49.1

Our crime colonist, Marilyn Stasio, joins us now to talk about true crime.

0:53.8

Marilyn, thank you for being here.

0:55.6

Happy to be here.

0:56.6

So, you're still relatively new to covering true crime.

0:59.6

I think this is your third true crime roundup for us.

1:03.1

I'm going to go quickly over the titles and then we can talk about the crimes.

1:07.7

First up, and this is in no particular order, we have Death in the Air, the true story

1:13.4

of a serial killer, the Great London smog and the strangling of a city by Kate Winkler-Dawson.

1:20.0

You have to love the subtitles of true crime books.

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