Episode 12: On Writing True Crime

The Watchung Booksellers Podcast

In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Katherine Dykstra and Joe Pompeo unpack the nuances of writing in the historical true crime genre.

Joe Pompeo is the author of Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime. A veteran magazine journalist and author, most recently as senior correspondent for Vanity Fair, he's written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York, Bloomberg, Businessweek, and many other publications. Subscribe to his newsletter at joepompeo.substack.com.
Katherine Dykstra is the author of What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood, which was on Best Books of Summer lists in the New York Times Book Review, People Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. She has served as a senior nonfiction editor at Guernica and was recently a writer-in-residence at Monmouth University. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Columbia, and Poets & Writers.
Resources:
Episode 12 Books
My Favorite Murder podcast
Serial podcast
Black and Missing HBO Series
Suspect Arrested after Publication of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
Stolen podcast
Under the Bridge Hulu Series
Murdaugh Murder in South Carolina
New Jersey Case: John and Joyce Sheridan
Lindbergh Kidnapping
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Series

Books:
A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here.

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