Ep. 117 Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe -- The Stacks Book Club (Emma Copley-Eisenberg)
Today for The Stacks Book Club we are discussing Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe with our guest Emma Copley Eisenberg (The Third Rainbow Girl). Our conversation dives into the three driving forces in the book; women, crime, and obsession. We also examine the impulse to solve crimes, why victim statements can be complicated, and what kind of killers get their narratives revisited.
There are no spoilers on this episode.
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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
Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Manson Family Murders (CNN)
Paradise Lost (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1996)
Columbine Shooting (History)
"U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear Adnan Syed's Appeal, Keeping 'Serial' Subject In Prison" (Bobby Allyn, NPR)
Serial (This American Life)
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Jonestown (History)
Columbine by Dave Cullen
A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Dylan Klebold (The New York Times)
Eric Harris (Biography)
"The Jonestown Massacre" (You're Wrong About)
Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen
"Long Island’s Lost Girls: Broken Rainbow" (Billy Jensen, Long Island Press)
A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
"Ghansah’s ‘Explainers’ Goes to RH" (Rachel Deahl, Publisher's Weekly)
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (Exactly Right)
Matthew Shepard (The New York Times)
"Matthew Shepard" (You're Wrong About)
JonBenet Ramsey (CNN)
"The War on Murder: Sharon Tate and the Victims' Rights Movement" (Rachel Monroe, Los Angeles Review of Books)
"Telling the Story of the Stanford Rape Case" (Marina Koren, The Atlantic)
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (Joe Berlinger, 2019)
Jim Jones (Biography)
Waco Siege (History)
Virginia Tech Shooting (CNN)
"When Violent Crime Is Your Fixation" (Kaitlin Phillips, The New York Times)
Breathe by Imani Perry
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