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'd also highly recommend reading @Chris_Fabricant's JUNK SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM and @radleybalko + @wtc465's THE CADAVER KING AND THE COUNTRY DENTIST. And, of course, this @davidgrann masterpiece: https://t.co/mw4eDkKdl4

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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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Next Tuesday is the release day for @keribla's CORRECTIONS IN INK: a memoir about her time in prison and how she eventually got out, got sober, and became a journalist covering prisons. Want to send it to someone who's currently incarcerated? Here's how: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14w7a4FmLvbyFET6GmQazLI0QfOCMbu20-jBxTXrJAFc/viewform?edit_requested=true

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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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If anyone won this week, it was @MauriceChammah, who published a paperback (LET THE LORD SORT THEM: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty) *and* this brilliant exposé. You should read both. And raise a glass to Maurice. https://t.co/lj6TrupmQn

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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