The Plugged In Show, Episode 73: The Dark Allure of True Crime Stories
Gothic horror master Edgar Allan Poe wouldn’t have any trouble understanding our contemporary culture’s fascination with unsolved mysteries.
Gothic horror master Edgar Allan Poe wouldn’t have any trouble understanding our contemporary culture’s fascination with unsolved mysteries.
When she was attending the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the mid-1940s, Flannery O’Connor asked her priest whether she could write about “difficult things.” We
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It’s been said that people are made of stories, and I believe it’s true. So it’s telling that our own collective story begins with a
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