The comedian and actor Patton Oswalt shares the posthumous true-crime masterpiece written by his wife Michelle McNamara, who died suddenly at the age of 46 in 2016. McNamara, a true crime reporter and creator of TrueCrimeDiary.com, spent years tracking a serial killer she dubbed the Golden State Killer. Between 1976 and 1986 he committed 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders up and down California. Oswalt wrote, “I can't help feeling that somewhere, in her final pages, she left enough clues for someone to finish the job she couldn't—to put California's worst serial killer behind bars.” Plus: a behind-the-scenes private tour of items from NYPL's true crime collections.
Library Talks - Marilynne Robinson
Hillary Rodham Clinton with Jennifer Weiner
Sasha Issenberg with Maggie Haberman: The Lie Detectives
Lyn Slater and Chloé Cooper Jones
Chasing Bruno Schulz: Benjamin Balint with Joshua Cohen
Álvaro Enrigue with Marie Arana: You Dreamed of Empires
Heather Cox Richardson with Andrew Delbanco: Democracy Awakening
Lesbian Poetic Traditions: Judy Grahn and Friends
Vauhini Vara with Leslie Jamison: This Is Salvaged
Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres
Outrageous: Kliph Nesteroff with Marc Maron
Far from Over: The Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
Mary Beard with Tim Gunn: Emperor of Rome
C Pam Zhang with Padma Lakshmi: Land of Milk and Honey
Matthew Desmond and Andrea Elliott: Poverty, by America
Building the World We Want: Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance
Luis Alberto Urrea: Good Night, Irene
Sasha Velour and Joe E. Jeffreys: Drag Manifesto
Sherrilyn Ifill: How America Ends and Begins Again
Stonewall 50: The Sound of Memory
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Librarian Is In