Scott Turow

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5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Club soda with lemon Scott talks about the choices he made in leaving a Stanford Fellowship in creative writing to enroll at Harvard Law School where Alan Dershowitz was a young professor, the 1977 publication of his nonfiction book about law school, ONE L, his casework as an Assistant US Attorney in Chicago, the earth-shaking success of his 1987 fiction debut, PRESUMED INNOCENT, and thereafter the variety of strange reactions he got from judges, juries and opposing counsels when he entered the courtroom to litigate cases while already a bonafide literary star, his thoughts on the differences between novel and film writing, and the reboot of PRESUMED INNOCENT on Apple with David E. Kelley and JJ Abrams.

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0:00.0	Go get it now. Please check out my new nonfiction book, The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel.
0:05.2	Publishers Weekly gives the book a starred review, calling it a thrilling investigation and a wildly
0:10.3	enjoyable outing. Lee Child says, outstanding and a conclusion worthy of James Bond.
0:16.0	Historian Jay Winnick says, equal parts Walter Isaacson and Sherlock Holmes, the mysterious case of Rudolph's
0:21.5	diesel, yanks back the curtain on the greatest caper of the 20th century. The book is out now,
0:26.6	everywhere you get your books. Please check it out, and I promise you'll love it.
0:31.1	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt. You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's
0:37.4	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.
0:53.3	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with Scott Turrow. From the time of his fiction debut in 1987 with presumed innocent, Scott has been one of the most successful writers in the world. In 1990, he graced the cover of Time magazine back when that was really a thing, the magazine calling him, quote,
1:11.8	the bard of the litigious age. In addition to his writing, Scott has been a leader in the writing
1:16.8	community, having served two terms as president of the Authors Guild. He's also done a ton of pro bono
1:22.2	legal work because not only is he the bard of litigation, he is, in fact, a very talented lawyer.
1:28.5	Scott, it's great to be with you. Thanks for coming in.
1:31.1	Oh, thank you, Doug. It's really nice to be here with you. Thanks.
1:34.2	So our drink for today will be some club soda, which is great to help us keep our wits about us for this conversation.
1:42.7	So I'll get that started here with a bit of lemon.
1:46.0	Yeah, I'm wondering why I didn't ask for Chateau the Feet, you know.
1:52.0	Right, I mean it's all on Sirius XM. We might as well jack up the bill.
1:56.0	Yeah.
1:57.0	Next time, you know, next time you're coming through new york will uh we'll uh we'll do that
2:02.4	and i really appreciate you coming in i know we've been trying to book this one for a little while
2:05.6	um coordinating schedules for your visit through new york yeah well i'm here often to see
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