Podcasts about body a murder

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich discusses the first pages of their essay “Futurity” which appeared in the 2022 Best American Essays. We talk about their splintered approach to the essay during a splintered time, how they bypassed the usual expectations of structure and made their process physical (hint: it involved little pieces of paper) with the help of Jane Allison's beloved craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode, and issues of audience and representation.Marzano-Lesnevich's full essay can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying Alex's book, The Fact of a Body, on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video version of this interview.The above link will be available for 48 hours. Missed it? The podcast version is always available, both here and on your favorite podcast platform.Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. It has been translated into eleven languages. Their next book, Both and Neither, is forthcoming from Doubleday and publishers internationally. An excerpt, "Body Language," appears in Best American Essays 2020. A 2023 United States Artist fellow, they are the Rogers Chair in Creative Nonfiction at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

This week, we're joined by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich. Alex is the author of the book slash cultural phenomenon The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which won several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, the Times of London, the Guardian, and about a million other places. Alex earned their BA from Columbia, their MFA at Emerson College, and their JD at Harvard Law School. They're now an assistant professor at Bowdoin College, and their next book, Both and Neither, is forthcoming from Doubleday. Together, we dive into this rollercoaster of a chapter: Laurie plays Cupid, makes a mess, and tries to enlist Jo in a plot to run away from home. Jo would, if she were a boy, but as she's a miserable girl... Well, maybe with this haircut... On second thought, yeah; we're running away to India together, and we're doing it as boys. Gender! Can't live with it, can't live without it. Our cover art is by Mattie Lubchansky. It interpolates the cover art for Bethany C. Morrow's book "So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix," with permission from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. It also interpolates the cover art for Hena Khan's book “More to the Story,” with permission from Simon & Schuster. Our theme music is Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major. This episode was edited by Antoinette Smith and transcribed by Lou Balikos. A transcript of this episode is available here.

Jamie Gehring joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about her braided memoir Madman in the Woods which details her and her family's experience living next to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, how she incorporated and structured research, interviews, and her own memories, the challenge of organizing so much information, and why writers need to follow their instincts.   Also in this episode: -Not losing the reader -Getting it all onto the page -Intimate true crime as a genre   Books mentioned in this episode: ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of the FBI by Ron Franscell When She Comes Back by Ronit Plank Bookends by Zibby Owens Inside Passage by Keema Watrfield The Babysitter: My Summers with Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan Knocked Down by Aileen Weintraub Educated by Tara Westover The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Anne Rule The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich  You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie   Jamie Gehring is a Montana native who grew up sharing a backyard with Ted Kaczynski, the man widely known as the Unabomber. She was featured in Netflix's Unabomber—In His Own Words where she discussed her family's role in Ted's capture.   Connect with Jamie: Website: www.jamiegehring.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiegehringauthor/ Books: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781635768169 -- Ronit is a teacher and speaker whose essays, creative nonfiction, and fiction have been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2023. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: https://ronitplank.com/book/   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

Join us today as we discuss the disposability of women and children in the US and beauty products that lie to us. Then we dive into The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich to discuss tragedy and loss that infuse multiple families and generations.We exhale by shifting to a chat about men in power who don't understand how women's bodies work but who make decisions on behalf of women's bodies. Meghan shares a tale of local government horseplay and Jules gives us Insights™ into how she thinks and behaves professionally, and it's not all roses! We wrap it with a creepy story and a kookly-dookly advice write-in. “Republicans Don't Know Shit About Abortion” by Jessica Valenti on SubstackThe Daily “Special Episode: Roe v. Wade is Overturned” from June 25, 2022“Oops!... I Did It Again” by Brittney Spears“Party in the USA” by Miley CyrusMeghan McDonnell on MediumRead along in Listless: Volume Eleven – The Journals of Meghan McDonnellPlaylist on SpotifyFollow us on InstagramEmail us at thefeelingspodcast@gmail.comFind us on Pinterest: @thefeelingspodcastThe Feelings (buzzsprout.com)Music: “When it All Falls” by Ketsa* Names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect identities. We have solely recorded our interpretations and opinions of all events. Certain place names have been changed

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of the award-winning book The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir. Alex joins TFP this week to discuss the historically controversial lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness: is it really a lesbian novel, or perhaps more of a trans novel? Have we moved beyond the tragic queer love story? And how has our interpretation of this classic text changed in the last 100 years?

In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the convoy of truckers that has occupied Ottawa, Canada. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:  A convoy of truckers and their allies, totaling about 8,000 people, has gathered in the center of Ottawa, Canada, in protest of what they consider excessive COVID prevention policy. Natalia referred to Michelle Goldberg's New York Times column about the protest, and Niki referred to Dahlia Lithwick's Slate article on its narrow appeal.   In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia discussed Elizabeth Williams' New York Times article, “A Child's TikTok Stardom Opens Doors. Then A Gunman Arrives.” Neil recommended Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's book, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir. Niki reflected on the long life of the phrase “well behaved women seldom make history,” coined by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Buckle up because today, we’re talking to The BookstaGays! We had the most fun, most chaotic interview with Alex (@thebookadvocate) and Sam (@staxsonstaxs), who are cohosts of everyone’s favorite queer bookish podcast. We chat with them about bookstagram, the importance of queer community, and—duh—enneagrams! So get excited, and let’s pour one out for Becky and her never-failing editing skills. Stay tuned for some book talk. Today we have YA historical fiction, a new favorite for Kayla, a memoir recommended by none other than Alex, and a queer biography-memoir hybrid. Thanks for listening! And be sure to check out The BookstaGays at @thebookstagays on instagram. And listen to their podcast here!: https://anchor.fm/thebookstagays. Become a Patreon fan club member (and don’t forget to join our April Book Club discussion) here: https://www.patreon.com/booksandthecitypod. Shop BATC merch here: https://www.booksandthecitypod.com/merch. Browse and shop all the books we’ve discussed on this episode and past episodes at bookshop.org/shop/booksandthecity. Subscribe to our newsletter on our website, and send us an email at booksandthecitypod@gmail.com.-------------> Becky just read: The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor (30:41-39:06) https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-paper-girl-of-paris-jordyn-taylor?variant=32291827646498 Up next for Becky: Harry Potter a l'ecole des Sorciers by J.K.. Rowling Emily just read: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (39:07-48:47) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250080554 Up next for Emily: Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella Libby just read: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shaplund (48:48-57:50) https://tinhouse.com/book/my-autobiography-of-carson-mccullers/ Up next for Libby: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Kayla just read: We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (57:51-1:07:16) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250759665 Up next for Kayla: Act Your Age, Evie Brown by Talia Hibbert Music by EpidemicSound, logo art by @niczollos, all opinions our own.

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to get new clients right now. I’ve also been thinking about how I will have to change my business and plan for the next several months or year or two, even though so many things are unknown during this pandemic. First, here are some reminders about how to be a rock star for your clients. This is about your personality, attitude and ability to be helpful. What you should always do, but especially right now: Respond quickly. I know this isn’t always possible. There are exceptions. But when a client emails you, especially if you’re already working on an assignment for them, get back to them quickly—as in that same day if possible. Don’t leave them hanging. Don’t ghost clients. This should be obvious, but I’ve had freelancers working for me who did not only respond quickly, they just didn’t respond at all. For days. On a deadline. And I never hired those people again. Meet your deadlines. If you are having trouble with your deadline, reach out to your client as soon as possible. The worst thing is to reach out the day of and say you can’t meet the deadline. You just sound like you procrastinated. Instead, contact your client several days before your deadline, apologize and ask for an extension. Do the little things. For writers, that might mean suggesting headlines and subheads and creating a list of all sources with contact information for fast fact-checking. Don’t overshare. Clients don’t have the time or mental energy to hear all about your troubles. They just want their project on time and done right. Be helpful. Be polite. Now, I want to share four ideas to consider as you pivot and work to earn more money and gain new clients: Think digital FIRST. And think digital for EVERYTHING. I know some of you might have video chat/Zoom fatigue, but we have to be all digital most of the time. We don’t have a choice. This is the world we live in now. Whether you are already providing services digitally (writing, website design, etc.) or not, you have to think digital for everything right now. On one end of the spectrum are courses and webinars. What skills can you teach online right now? Aim to make money, but this is also about expanding your network and showcasing yourself as an expert—which can then lead to new work. But you can also start smaller, perhaps with Instagram videos or Facebook Live sessions. What are you an expert in that people want to know more about? Join an online practice group, accountability group or Facebook groups. In short, expand your support network. But this is not just about networking. It’s about gathering with people in your industry—or an adjacent industry—to share best practices and ideas about how everyone is pivoting right now. And the people in these groups can also commiserate with you as we all struggle through this. Be a part of the conversation. It can be helpful to talk to friends and commiserate with other freelancers right now, but it’s also important to be a part of the larger conversation as an expert in your field. Pose questions on LinkedIn. Answer questions in Facebook groups. Take part in tweet chats, such as #FreelanceChat every Thursday at 12 p.m. Eastern time. You can also consider being a guest on a podcast—or even starting your own. Write a guest blog post. Be strategic about all this: Who are you trying to reach? Is there a way to reach your potential clients? How can you get out front and center in your industry? Be really helpful. Ask nearly everyone you know: How can I help with your work? What are you struggling with in your position? What does your organization need? Maybe they won’t have work for you right now, but I bet they remember you for asking. Maybe they can offer you a smaller project or you can charge a bit less than you normally would. Or if you can’t help or they need a service you don’t provide, you can refer them to a freelancer who might be able to. If you take nothing else out of this episode, I highly encourage you to think digital first. Think digital for everything. What new and creative ways can you pivot into providing digital services and content for your audience?   Biz Bite: Work outside   The Bookshelf: “The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir” by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich   Resources: Episode #53 of Deliberate Freelancer: Pivoting and Finding Resilience Episode #43 of Deliberate Freelancer: 33 Ways to Find More Clients

It’s our Best of 2019 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2019, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Bizarro Fiction to True Crime) and the best of everything else we read. Join us! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite Non-Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast:  Anna:  Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction Matthew:  The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill RJ:  I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Episode 080 - True Crime Meghan:  The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Not for the podcast:  Matthew:  You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane AI Weirdness blog Twitter thread including neural net generated smut titles - Featuring “Sex Tongs” and “The Nutwoble Resort” RJ:  Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Meghan:  How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell Anna: They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom Favourite Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast RJ: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson  Episode 086 - American Gothic Meghan:  Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Anna:  Gutshot by Amelia Gray Episode 074 - Short Story Collections Matthew: Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe Not for the podcast Meghan:  All Systems Red by Martha Wells Anna:  Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei Matthew:  Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee RJ:  Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Favourite other stuff from 2019: Meghan:  Au-dela des limites: L'histoire des sports en fauteuil roulant by Judith Lussier and Donald Royer Les petits garcons by Sophie Bédard Matthew: Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni Lego Rewind Lego Rewind Ep.20- Halloween Special RJ:  A Tour of My Plants by Jenna Marbles Anna:  SciShow Safiya Nigard Jungle Chvrches Billie Eilish Lizzo Flume Sofi Tukker King Princess The Dø Like a Version (triple j) CHVRCHES cover Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know?' for Like A Version CHVRCHES cover Kendrick Lamar 'LOVE.' for Like A Version Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast): Meghan: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus  The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch Anna:  The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisely Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll Matthew:  Fiction Clade by James Bradley A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke Non-Fiction Thrill-Power Overload: The First Forty Years by David Bishop and Karl Stock Academia Obscura by Glen Wright 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph Comics Hex Vet, vol. 1: Witches in Training by Sam Davies Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame Sugar & Spike: Metahuman Investigations by Keith Giffen and Bilquis Evely Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt (the first Canadian autobio comic) SP4RX by Wren McDonald (Cyberpunk!) 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This month our genre is True Crime! We discuss bird thieves, rich people, caring more about the stories around the crimes than the crimes themselves, and audiobooks that make us scared to go to bed. Check it out! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…) Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel Can You Ever Forgive Me? (movie) Noël Coward Edna Ferber The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson Internet Archive: Wayback Machine The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Mystery of Mary Rogers by Rick Geary The Case of Madeleine Smith by Rick Geary I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Letter to the Golden State Killer Other Media We Mention American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women by Stevie Cameron Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women by Katherine McCarthy The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams 30 for 30: A Queen of Sorts (podcast about “ an elaborate baccarat scheme”) Treasury of Victorian Murder Series Treasury of XXth Century Murder Series The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold Rashomon (Wikipedia) Long Overdue Episode 79: Meta-Podcast Links, Articles, and Things Yellow journalism (Wikipedia) Ann Rule (Wikipedia) Gregory Peck (Wikipedia) Patty Hearst (Wikipedia) Kevin Mitnick (Wikipedia) Hamburglar strikes again, feasts on $2,000 in meals using customer's McDonald's app (CBC) Vote for which book we’ll read! (Please vote only once! Polls will close by July 14th) Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? Twitter Facebook Google Form Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres or titles! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 16th we’ll be talking about books we’re excited are coming out in the 2nd half of 2019. Plus a segment recorded live at the American Library Association conference in Washington, DC. Then on Tuesday, August 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Steampunk!

Seems like you can’t swing a weeded book these days without hitting a true crime podcast. But having a large swathe of our communities so engaged with a narrative—that’s good news for libraries, because we traffic in helping folks find their next obsession. But it ain’t all true crime; this episode also touches on another kind of graphic storytelling—the graphic novel, and why they’re so important to libraries. Truly, this episode contains multitudes. You can find the full show notes, with links to Booklist reviews where available, at www.booklistonline.com/shelf-care. Here’s what we talked about: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. By John Carreyrou. A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America. By Christian T. Miller and Ken Armstrong. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. By Michelle McNamara. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir. By Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. My Friend Dahmer. Written and illustrated by Derf Backderf. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century. By Maureen Callahan. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. By Rachel Monroe. Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To-Guide. By Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. By Michelle McNamara. Read by Gabra Zackman. The Cheerleaders. By Kara Thomas. Read by Phoebe Strole. Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State. By Charles A. Gardner. Read by Jonathan Yen. Dark Sacred Night. By Michael Connelly. Read by Titus Welliver. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. By Kirk Wallace Johnson, Read by MacLeod Andrews. Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything. By Nancy Martin. Read by Suzie Althens. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. By Laura Thompson. Read by Jilly Bond. Sadie. By Courtney Summers. Read by Dan Bittner. The Killer Across the Table. By John E. Douglas. Read by Jonathan Groff. Along Came a Spider. By James Patterson. Read by Taye Diggs. This Was Our Pact. Written and illustrated by Ryan Andrews. ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table

Cody is joined by comedian and actress Nathalie Holmes in this incredibly silly episode about an incredibly silly book. You can find your copy of the book online or at your friend who likes to say they read the newspaper even if it's just the cartoons and society sections.   Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman   #1 New York Times Bestseller   The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides an eye-opening look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.   Few have been a member of Donald Trump’s inner orbit longer than Omarosa Manigault Newman. Their relationship has spanned fifteen years—through four television shows, a presidential campaign, and a year by his side in the most chaotic, outrageous White House in history. But that relationship has come to a decisive and definitive end, and Omarosa is finally ready to share her side of the story in this explosive, jaw-dropping account.   A stunning tell-all and takedown from a strong, intelligent woman who took every name and number, Unhinged is a must-read for any concerned citizen.     SHOW NOTES: Currently Reading: ‘The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir’ by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich   Topics: Ice Flows, a completely new government structure… oh, and Omarosa   Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!   WEBSITE: http://Tomefoolery.com STORE: http://squareup.com/market/CodyMelcherEsq PATREON: http://patreon.com/CodyMelcherEsq FAN GROUP: http://www.facebook.com/groups/Tomefoolery

On today's episode guest interviewer David Griffith, vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education, speaks with Alexandria Marzano-Lesnovich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, winner of the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Part reportage and part memoir, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir follows a young law student through her early career as she digs into both her own past, and the past of a convicted murderer. In a book 10 years in the making, Marzano-Lesnevich shows how the law is more personal than we would like to believe, creating a “gripping” story of “great importance.” Chautauqua readers called it “an extraordinary memoir” that is “brave and intimate.” A 2014 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Marzano-Lesnevich has received a Rona Jaffe Award and has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Alexandria’s essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, and the anthologies True Crime and Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women, as well as many other publications. Alexandria received The Chautauqua Prize in a public presentation on Friday, Aug. 3. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's Aug. 3 presentation in the Hall of Philosophy: Video and audio: online.chq.org/… Coverage in The Chautauquan Daily: chqdaily.com/…

Ricky Langley is a confessed killer, but he may be freed from a life sentence after an appeals panel overturned his conviction on a technicality. Nancy Grace explores the evidence against Langley -- including his own words -- in the strangulation murder of 6-year-old Jeremy Guillory in 1992. The expert guests include Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, whose book "The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir" explores the case, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, and psychologist Dr. Chloe Carmichael.

Recorded on February 2, 2018 Book Talk starts at 32:18 Our Fall Sweater KAL is over!  Winners will be announced at the end of the podcast. The 2 Knit Lit Chicks Hoodie giveaway is over also - the winner will be announced at the end of the podcast. Get ready for our next KAL – the Never-Have-I-Ever Sock-along which will run February 14 through May 15.  Make socks like you’ve never made before - try a new heel, using a pattern if you usually stick with vanilla, knit from a sock blank for the first time, do color work - or maybe try socks for the very first time!  Please go to the Never-Have-I-Ever Sock-along Chatter thread to join the fun.     Tracie and Barb will be at: Stitches West - February 22-25, 2018 NoCKRs 2018 - April 12-15 Knitting Barb has finished: Barb's Free Your Fade by Andrea Mowry, using Zen Yarn Garden Superfine Fingering in the Magical Dyepot D3, D5 and D6 color ways.  And many thanks to Zen Yarn Garden for gifting the yarn to Barb for review!   Barb's Brooklin Vest by Elizabeth Smith, using Berroco Vintage Chunky in the Smoke colorway   Mother Bear #127     Tracie has finished: Redford pullover by Julie Hoover, using Lisa Souza Hardtwist Merino in the Monteverde colorway   Barb is currently working on:       Tale as Old as Time Cowl by Anne Vally, using Must Stash Yarns & Fiber Perfect Self-Striping Sock in the Beauty and the Beast colorways   Pioneer Braid Scarf by Catherine Ryan, using Caron Cake in the Blueberry Kiwi colorway   High Woods Hat by Irini Pi, using leftover Barroco Vintage in the Dungaree and Forest Floor colorways   Royal Mile Cowl by Dami Hunter, using Delicious Yarns Frosting Chunky in the Currant colorway.  Thank you to Delicous Yarns and Stitchcraft Marketing for giving Barb the yarn to review!   Vanilla Socks using Knit Picks Felici in the Hopscotch color way   Misty Scarf by Kaffe Fassett, using Rowan Kidsilk Haze Stripe (2 different skeins)     Tracie is working on: 5th Fiddly Bits cowl by Jane Pihota from fingering weight magic cake   Levitate  Poncho by Yvonne Poon, using Manos del Uruguay Silk Blend in the Kohl and Zebra color ways Vanilla Socks in Fishknits Boot Strap Self-striping in the NorCal Vernal Pools colorway New Wave cardigan by Mary Annarella, using Invictus Yarns Reward in the Olive colorway       Books   Barb has finished: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng   X by Sue Grafton Two Old Women by Velma Wallis         Tracie has finished reading: The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck Horrorstor  by Grady Hendrix I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us by Tanya Lee Stone     Barb is currently reading: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout     Tracie is currently reading:   Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito       Tracie has set aside The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith

Episode Thirty Six Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. Willa Cather Bookclub: Join Chris on January 18th at 2:00 at Bookclub Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT where she is kicking off a quarterly Willa Cather book club starting with My Antonia. We have an upcoming read-along: February – Maurice by E.M. Forster Send in questions or comments by March 1st – we will discuss on March 6th episode – Reading Goals for 2018 – Emily 1. 52 book reading challenge on Goodreads 2. Read “book of shame” on bookshelf : Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts 3. Clean up Currently Reading shelf on Goodreads 4. Establish a volunteer relationship with a literary organization – read to kids! 5. Read excerpts from the many short story collections on the bookshelf 6. Send cards/letters once/week 7. Work on joint podcasts with authors, other literary podcasts, etc. 8. Go on an epic book related adventure Chris 1. 52 book reading challenge on Goodreads 2. TBR 2018 reading challenge – hosted by Adam at Roof Beam Reader Chris blogged about her 12 books here 3. Australian Women Writers Reading Challenge 2018 Chris blogged about her anticipated reading here 4. Willa Cather quarterly book club at Bookclub Bookstore & More 5. One book challenge – Anna in April – reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Sponsored by Amanda of Fig and Thistle Books. 6. Write and submit work – Currently Reading/Listening – My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy #3) – Willa Cather (CW) (100 year anniversary!) Sweet – Yotem Ottolenghi and Helen Goh (EF) The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW) The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne (EF) – Just Read – The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin (CW) Someone – Alice McDermott (EF) Sweetgirl – Travis Mulhauser Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook – Alice Waters (EF) The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays & Stories – Marina Keegan edited by Anne Fadiman(EF) – Biblio Adventures – Emily had at home adventures watching the movie Mudbound based on the novel, Mudbound, by Hilary Jordan and starting the series Good Behavior based on the Letty Dobesh Chronicles by Blake Crouch. We discuss the passing of Sue Grafton author of the Kinsey Millhone series. Chris adventured to NYC to hunt for Maurice. She walked and came upon a sign: Melville Square, she wrote about the adventure on her blog. Read about it here. Chris ventured to the North Haven Memorial Library to pick up movies and books. Tragedy struck and her dog ate two of the books: The Woman on the Stairs – Bernard Schlink Laureates of Connecticut – edited by Ginny Lowe Connors December 30, 2017 - Chris met “Our Mystery Man” John Valeri at Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore for a final shop of 2017. – Upcoming Jaunts – January 11, 2018 – Chris and Emily are finally taking a jaunt to the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, CT. January 25, 2018 - Min Jin Lee will be at RJ Julia’s Booksellers in conversation with the Book Cougars! – Upcoming Reads – Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg (CW) Free Food for Millionaires – Min Jin Lee (CW) Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) – Gretchen Rubin (EF) – Also Mentioned – The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures – Anne Fadiman Inside the Wave – Helen Dunmore Dark Matter – Blake Crouch Harry Dresden Series – Jim Butcher The Reader – Bernard Schlink Pachinko – Min Jin Lee

Episode Thirty Five Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. We have an upcoming read-along: February – Maurice by E.M. Forster. – Just Read – Chris DNF’d a book: Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay The Rules of Magic – Alice Hoffman (EF) Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival – Velma Wallis (CW) Cove – Cynan Jones (EF) The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II – Liza Mundy (CW) (audio) The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW) Someone – Alice McDermott (EF) What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky – Lesley Nneka Arimah (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Emily went to both the Guilford Library and the Glastonbury Welles Turner Library Chris is volunteering and spending time at the Institute Library in New Haven – Upcoming Jaunts – Chris is heading to RJ Julia in Madison to see Paul Kix discuss his book The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Savoy Bookshop & Café has a New Year’s Day sale with 25% off everything Jan 8 – Kelly Corrigan in Conversation with Ariel Levy at the 92nd St Y – Upcoming Reads – The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin (CW) Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality – Pema Chödrön (EF) (audio) – Top Reads of 2017 – Emily’s favorite reads: Top Nonfiction B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good – Ryan Honeyman (EF) Favorite Memoirs Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay (EF) It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool, Too) – Nora McInerny Purmort (EF) The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (EF) Favorite Fiction The Mothers – Brit Bennett (EF) News of the World – Paulette Jiles (EF) Plainsong (Plainsong #1) – Kent Haruf (EF) Chris’s favorite reads: See Her Blog Post On Gift Ideas Mastering the Art of Self-Expression & More – Laura Thoma (CW) Young Adult-ish Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World – Sarah Prager (CW) Favorite Mysteries The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) – Jane Harper (CW) And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic #2) – Emma Viskic (CW) New Haven Noir – edited by Amy Bloom (CW) Favorite Fiction Pachinko – Min Jin Lee (CW) The Leavers – Lisa Ko (CW) The Gypsy Moth Summer – Julia Fierro (CW) Non-Fiction Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay (CW)(audio) Going and Goodbye: A Memoir – Shuly Xóchitl Cawood (CW) OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army – Ann Todd (CW) – Also Mentioned – Libro.fm – audiobook subscription service Zora Neale Hurston – Barracoon // Their Eyes Were Watching God Chicago Review of Books Velma Wallis – Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska Alice McDermott – The Ninth Hour: A Novel // Charming Billy Road to Success with Laura Thoma Dave Eggers – What is the What Jennifer Egan – Manhattan Beach

We finally announce the winners of the 2017 Reading Women Awards! News Introducing the 2018 Reading Women Challenge You can buy Reading Women Award seals in our new store! Books Mentioned Nonfiction Shortlist Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke that Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo Fiction Shortlist The Weight of Him (St. Martin's) by Ethel Rohan Stay with Me (Knopf) by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing) by Min Jin Lee The Strays (Twelve Books) by Emily Bitto The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead) by Heather O'Neill Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner) by Jesmyn Ward Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and fur child photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies!   CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Autumn Twitter | Instagram | Website Kendra Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Website Music “Stickybee” by Josh Woodard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who killed 6-year-old Jeremy Guillory in 1992 is not a mystery. Pedophile Ricky Langley is serving a life sentence in a Louisiana prison for strangling the child and hiding him in his closet. But the case still haunts many associated with it. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, whose book "The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir" explores the case, visits with Nancy Grace in this episode. Grace is also joined by forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, author of "Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator" and New York psychologist Dr. Chloe Carmichael, creator of AnxietyTools.com.

It's here! In this episode, we announce the 2017 Reading Women Award Nonfiction Shortlist!  Books Mentioned Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke that Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo Interviews Interview with Christine Hyung-Oak Lee Literary Emporium Many thanks to Literary Emporium so sponsoring this episode. You can find more info about Literary Emporium's bookish clothing and accessories on their website. Be sure to use the code READINGWOMEN15 for 15% off your entire purchase.  Follow Literary Emporium Twitter | Facebook | Instagram   Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and fur child photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies!   CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Autumn Twitter | Instagram | Website Kendra Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Website   Music “Stickybee” by Josh Woodard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

      Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, and a Rona Jaffe Award. Also, she teaches at Grub Street and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In this episode, we will talk about her book, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir.