Our guest today is two-time New York Times Best Selling author Dave Cullen. His first book, Columbine, is one of host, Traci Thomas’, favorite books. Cullen is most recently the author of Parkland: Birth of a Movement. Today we talk about following journalistic instincts, crafting a compelling narrative, and then we get a sneak peek into Dave Cullen’s forthcoming book, Soldiers First.
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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
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Parkland by Dave Cullen
- Kevin Davis
- Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
- Oklahoma City by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles
- Truman Capote
- A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebbold
- Soliders First by Dave Cullen
- Rough Beauty by Karen Auvinen
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (“The Long Rain” story)
- William Lychack
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- There There by Tommy Orange
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
- Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
- Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
- Lucia Berlin
- Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Ernest Hemingway
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Anton Chekhov
- Leo Tolstoy
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Jennifer Egan
- Jonathan Lethem
- Wearing Dad’s Head by Barry Yourgrau
- William Faulkner
- Charles Dickens
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway
- Anne Waldman
- A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Everything Else
- The New York Times
- Dave Cullen in Slate
- Dave Cullen in The Daily Beast
- “Author Dave Cullen on how Columbine ‘changed everything’ — but America ‘did nothing'” (CBS News, 2019)
- “Echoes of past gun tragedies offer lessons for prevention” (The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC)
- Johnathan Karp
- Laquan McDonoald (AP News)
- 16 Shots (WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune)
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- Ross Perot Fast Facts (CNN)
- “My George HW Bush reality check as a young journo” (Dave Cullen, Dave Cullen’s blog)
- Salon.com
- Joan Walsh
- Matthew Shepard
- “The trial that wasn’t” (Dave Cullen, Salon)
- Russel Henderson (The New York Times)
- Woody Allen
- Oklahoma City Bombing Fact Facts (CNN)
- Rammstein
- KMFDM
- The Harry Potter Movies
- Springsteen on Broadway (Netflix)
- The New York Times Magazine
- “Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t fall in love” (Dave Cullen, Salon)
- “A heartbreaking decision” (Dave Cullen, Salon)
- “Mexican Filmmakers Panel” (Charlie Rose, 2006)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Guillermo del Toro
- Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
- “2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners Announced” (The Los Angeles Times)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
- Jack Nicholson
- Louise Fletcher
- By the Book (The New York Times)
- The Crown (Netflix)
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