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.

BOOKS

• 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

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 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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