Pamela Colloff Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Out today: @Gilbert_King's new podcast, BONE VALLEY, on a troubling conviction in Florida. King wrote the Pulitzer-winning DEVIL IN THE GROVE, which led to the posthumous exonerations of four men. No one does investigative + narrative storytelling better https://t.co/XPwy90P0xU https://t.co/hwFngEmsFv

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I got an early copy of the great @evanhughes’ forthcoming book, THE HARD SELL. The book grew out of Evan’s fantastic 2018 story for The New York Times Magazine, “The Pain Hustlers.” Congrats Evan!! 🏆 I can’t wait to read. https://t.co/FhN28VRVUT

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Highly recommended: closing out the summer with a compulsively readable novel. I'm enjoying this one so much.

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If you need a break from all of the relentlessly bad news (and honestly, if you don't, you are unhinged), you should read @edyong209's beautiful new book, "An Immense World." https://t.co/3GdGl0owCy

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This week marks one decade since journalist Austin Tice was taken hostage in Syria. His family in Houston is still hoping to bring him home. @sonia_smith has been covering this story since 2015. Her latest is a moving update on where things stand: https://t.co/efEYKTaZaU

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A rave review for @AdamHSays's new book, THE STATE MUST PROVIDE, which "exposes the menace in the mundane...through vivid storytelling." "Harris’s writing is as refreshing as it is haunting," writes @tony_jack. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/books/review/state-must-provide-adam-harris.html

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Happy pub day to the great @sarahw, whose new book, SCOUNDREL, is out today. Publishers Weekly calls it an "instant classic." Less poetically, my reaction after Sarah first told me about the book was, "Holy #$@!% that's the craziest story I've ever heard!" https://www.harpercollins.com/products/scoundrel-sarah-weinman?variant=39356464463906

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Ann Rule's "The Stranger Beside Me" scared me so much that I had to turn the spine of the book inward on my bookshelf so I wouldn't spot it and get spooked all over again. Here's @magiciansbook on Rule, and how she changed the true-crime genre: https://t.co/LlNuqAEy88

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Some writing is so good that you can later remember the moment you first discovered it. This was my experience with @mansi_choksi's 2018 piece for Harper's, "The Newlyweds." Mansi's new book, out Tuesday, is a longer meditation on her extraordinary, intimate reporting: https://t.co/KrNRNTtPnO

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"'Strangers to Ourselves' is a book-length demonstration of Aviv’s extraordinary ability to hold space for the 'uncertainty, mysteries, and doubts' of others." -- @jenszalai on @RachelAviv's forthcoming exploration of mental illness https://t.co/UrKx6HbYb3