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Eve Batey and Sarah D. Bunting on how true crime is told and sold: bestevidence.fyi
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
November 2025 bonus review: Damaged People, father-son shit, and how to frame an unhappy-family story buttondown.com/bestevidence...
November 2025 Bonus: Damaged People
The son of a genre giant contemplates a knotty legacy. (Avid Press) This review is for paid subscribers only; we’d love to have you join us! Subscribe now
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November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
November 2025 bonus review: Damaged People, father-son shit, and how to frame an unhappy-family story buttondown.com/bestevidence...
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also bookshop dot org has free shipping today and we still have a small handful of books on our wishlist for people who are incarcerated in NYC! would love to fulfill all the requests: bookshop.org/wishlists/7a...
Fall Wishlist for Rikers
Bookshop.org Custom Registry
bookshop.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
also bookshop dot org has free shipping today and we still have a small handful of books on our wishlist for people who are incarcerated in NYC! would love to fulfill all the requests: bookshop.org/wishlists/7a...
Our esteemed colleague MJ Howie visits outlaw country with a Johnny Cash BET-CRP: www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
How much true crime is on Johnny Cash’s acting c.v.?
Margaret Howie runs the true-crime résumé numbers on The Man In Black.
www.realityblurred.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Our esteemed colleague MJ Howie visits outlaw country with a Johnny Cash BET-CRP: www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
Thrilled we could get @weegee.bsky.social to do a review for us: www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
Murderland: “You cannot look away because she doesn’t”
Kevin Smokler reviews Caroline Fraser’s investigation of serial killers and environmental toxicity.
www.realityblurred.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thrilled we could get @weegee.bsky.social to do a review for us: www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
Plus Trillin, Conan, and a PI named Tink. Must be Friday! www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
Down the JFK rabbithole with Errol Morris
Further reading on the Warren Report, the Umbrella Man, and crackpottery creating community.
www.realityblurred.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Plus Trillin, Conan, and a PI named Tink. Must be Friday! www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
(sorry for the delay! [mutters John Munch-ily about Cloudflare outage]) www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
How much true crime is on Kevin Costner’s c.v.?
Let’s all make the “Is Waterworld considered a felony?” jokes and then look back (and to the left) at the JFK star’s genre work.
www.realityblurred.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
(sorry for the delay! [mutters John Munch-ily about Cloudflare outage]) www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
I am once again ORDERING us as a society to stop using unserious words like "disgraced" and "scandal" to describe this RUINOUS PREDATOR bsky.app/profile/jaso...
NEW: In Oct 2016, when a new book about Jeffrey Epstein came out, he bought 17 copies. In 2019, in Epstein’s last weeks of freedom, he made his final purchases: a guide to raising children, The Annotated Lolita & Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
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Epstein’s Emails Reveal Book Purchases About Trump, Sex, Money and Power
TThe disgraced financier purchased books about making money, treating narcissism, negotiating with anyone, achieving ecstasy and understanding life
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am once again ORDERING us as a society to stop using unserious words like "disgraced" and "scandal" to describe this RUINOUS PREDATOR bsky.app/profile/jaso...
A gift link for the breaking Epstein-files story from NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A gift link for the breaking Epstein-files story from NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
From the Dept. of Happier Living Through Lowered Expectations, perhaps: www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
Who Hired the Hitman? is a snide surprise
The new ID/HBO Max series on murders for hire isn’t a work of staggering genius or anything – but it has an energy that most series like it don’t. Should you give it a look?
www.realityblurred.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
From the Dept. of Happier Living Through Lowered Expectations, perhaps: www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
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JUST IN: Two pitchers with the Cleveland Guardians have been charged with a gambling/ bribery/ money laundering conspiracy.
See the indictment: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
See the indictment: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
JUST IN: Two pitchers with the Cleveland Guardians have been charged with a gambling/ bribery/ money laundering conspiracy.
See the indictment: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
See the indictment: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
