This is exactly right.

This is exactly right. This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised. Language. The

big things for me is obsession.

Great theme.

It's the characters are obsessed.

I become obsessed.

There's a whole culture of obsession around this far-flung place,

Picarin Island, and you start finding this insane cause and effect of actions 200 years ago and how they've impacted a group of individuals today.

So another big theme is trauma, little traumas everywhere, essentially, and it's a

civilization on the edge of the world and it's sort of death by a thousand cuts.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the host of the historical True Crime Podcast,

Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly Right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

I've interviewed some people in person and

some from my home studio over Zoom and they are all excellent writers. They've

had so many great true crime stories and now we want to tell you those

stories with details that have

never been published. Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words is about the

choices that writers make good and bad. It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

Author and travel writer Brandon Presser is a fabulous storyteller. His book, The Farland, is an expansive story that stretches over two centuries.

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