Ep. 117 Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe — The Stacks Book Club (Emma Copley-Eisenberg)

June 24, 2020September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

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)
Sharon Tate
Law & Order Special Victims Unit (NBC)
West Memphis Three
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)

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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
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)
Polly Klass
JonBenet Ramsey (CNN)
Rachel Monroe on Twitter
CrimeCon
MSNBC
“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)
David Koresh
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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Ep. 82 Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen — The Stacks Book Club (Jac Vanek)

October 22, 2019September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Chase Darkness with Me is Billy Jensen’s true crime book about his journey into solving murder cases. We get to talk about this book, and all the complicated issues it brings up with Jac Vanek (LadyGang, The First Degree). We look at the merits of crowd sourced crime investigation, how we treat victims who aren’t pretty white women, and how the current obsession with true crime is a little problematic.
There are minor 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.

LadyGang (PodcastOne)
The First Degree (PodcastOne)
Jac Vanek
Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen
Billy Jensen
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
“Discovering Death: The Murder of Kenny Thomas Jr.” (The First Degree, PodcastOne)

“Authorities Identify Three Victims in Decades-Old ‘Bear Brook Murders’” (Pilar Melendez, The Daily Beast)
“Jac’s Story: The Real Homicide Of Orange County” (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
Alexis Linkletter
Snapped (Oxygen)
“A real O.C. housewife convicted of murder” (CBSNews.com)
Serial (This American Life)
Popular Crime by Bill James
JonBenét Ramsey
Polly Klass
Columbine
“O.J. Simpson Murder Case: A Timeline of the ‘Trial of the Century'” (Biography)
“Kim Goldman on Confronting OJ & The Aftermath” (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
“The Hero Of The Gabrielle Giffords Mass Shooting” (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
Scott Peterson (CNN)
O. J.: Made in America (ESPN)
Ezra Edelman
“3 Years After Boston Marathon Bombing, The Story Of A Wrongly Accused Student” (NPR)
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
The Murder of Laci Peterson (A&E)
23 and Me
GEDMatch
“The Hunt for the Golden State Killer” (The Daily, The New York Times)
“The Hawes Family” (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
“Maggie Guardado” (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
“LGBTQ ‘Black Lives Matter’ activists were watching Democratic donor Ed Buck, demanding justice” (Alene Tchekmedyian, Piper McDaniel, Matt Hamilton, Richard Winton, The Los Angeles Times)
“The Case Against Adnan Syed Gives Hae Min Lee More Of Voice. Here’s Who She Was.” (Martha Sorren, Refinery 29)
“The Menendez Murders” (Kaitlin Menza, Town and Country)

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The Stacks Book Club — October 2019

September 7, 2019January 2, 2020 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

October is known as the spookiest month around, so here at The Stacks we’re interpreting that in our own way. No, we’re not going full out horror, but we are looking at mortality and murder all month long.

We’re kicking off October with The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. This book asks the question, “if you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?”. We follow the four Gold children who seek out a traveling psychic that can tell them when they will die and then we watch to see how each of them choses to live. We’ll be discussing this book on October 9th.

Then on October 23rd we’re diving into a little true crime with Chase Darkness with Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen. This is not your traditional true crime book, instead Jensen shares his own journey as a journalist covering murders and why he took the reigns to solve murders himself. Its a true crime narrative unlike any we’ve seen before. If Jensen’s name sounds familiar to you, its because he is the man who helped to finish Michelle Macnamara’s book I’ll be Gone in the Dark, after she suddenly passed away.

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Order your copies of our August books on Amazon or IndieBound:

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (Amazon | IndieBound)
Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen (Amazon | IndieBound)

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