Ep. 27 Talking Investigative Journalism with Nancy Rommelmann

This week we are joined by author and journalist, Nancy Rommelmann. Nancy talks to us about her newest book To The Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder, her process as an investigative journalist, and about the time she traveled to see John Wayne Gacy on death row.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann

• All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

• Destination Gacy by Nancy Rommelmann

• Columbine by Dave Cullen

• Wanderer by Sterling Hayden

• Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• Barbarian Days by William Finnegan

• A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris

• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

• Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss

• Katherine Boo

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson

• The Landmark Julius Caesar by Kurt A. Raaflaub

• The Power Broker by Robert Caro

• The Passage by Justin Cronin

• The Twelve by Justin Cronin

• Valley of the Kings by Terrance Coffey

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

• Deborah Reed

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

• City of Thieves by David Benioff

• Alias Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos

• Joan Didion

• Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• After Henry by Joan Didion

• Lost Girls by Robert Kolker

• Sahara Unveiled by William Langewiesche

• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

• The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère

• I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

• Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal

• The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown

• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

• The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington

• The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

• Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales

•  Othello by William Shakespeare

• The Odyssey by Homer

• Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gita Sereny

• All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

• Edie by Jean Stein

• Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

• The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

• The Queens of Montague Street by Nancy Rommelmann

• The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn

• James Baldwin

• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

• J.M. Coetzee

• Raymond Chandler

• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

• LA Weekly

• Cults (Parcast Network)

• Heaven's Gate (Stitcher / Pineapple Street Media)

• "Taking My Ex Back In (for His Own Good)" (Nancy Rommelmann, New York Times)

• The Godfather (Paramount Pictures)

• Reason.com

• Wall Street Journal Book Review

• The New Yorker

• "Why Atul Gawande Will Soon Be The Most Feared CEO In Healthcare" (Robert Pearl, M.D., Forbes)

• Game of Thrones (HBO)

• Amanda Peet

• @25inFive Instagram Readathon Account

• William Langewiesche at Vanity Fair

• William Langewiesche at the Atlantic

• Patrick Melrose (Showtime)

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