Here is the link to the page for August’s discussion of True Crime. I have also reposted it below.
As always, feel free to use our Genre Study Assignments to assist you in leading your own. All we ask is that you credit ARRT.
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Assignment-- You Should Read At Least 3 Books in Total
Benchmark (Choose One):
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Helter Skelter: the True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
- John Douglas (any title)
- Diane Fanning (any title)
- Robert Graysmith (any title)
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
- Joe McGinniss (any title)
- Ann Rule (any title)
- James Swanson (any title)
*This meeting will also include a general discussion of true crime as a "genre.”
Suggested reading on that topic: You're Doing It Wrong a Conversation between Laura Lippman and Megan Abbott on how much truth is required to called a crime story nonfiction [from Booklist Reader]
Questions? Contact Magan mszwarek@fppl.org
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