CLEWS Interviews Harold Schechter on Ed Gein, Belle Gunness, Graphic Novels, and True Crime Today
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English - November 02, 2021 19:00 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBTrue Crime History true crime old true crime murder suspense literature Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Our inaugural interview is with Harold Schechter, whose first true crime book came out in 1990. Back in the day, true crime was mass market paperback and hard to find. You had to sneak to the back of the bookstore, and a special order got you a long look. Today, true crime tops the charts in every format, every channel. We can’t get enough. How did that happen? Harold Schechter knows. He’s now written dozens of books and just retired after 40 years as a professor of American literature in New York City. His specialty is serial killers, and he’s written on the most challenging murder stories in the history of the United States.