This week we are joined by author and journalist, Nancy Rommelmann. Nancy talks to us about her newest book To The Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder, her process as an investigative journalist, and about the time she traveled to see John Wayne Gacy on death row.

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BOOKS

To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Destination Gacy by Nancy Rommelmann
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Wanderer by Sterling Hayden
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss
Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
The Landmark Julius Caesar by Kurt A. Raaflaub
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Valley of the Kings by Terrance Coffey
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Deborah Reed
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Alias Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos
Joan Didion
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
After Henry by Joan Didion
Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
Sahara Unveiled by William Langewiesche
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal
The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
 Othello by William Shakespeare
The Odyssey by Homer
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gita Sereny
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Edie by Jean Stein
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
The Queens of Montague Street by Nancy Rommelmann
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
J.M. Coetzee
Raymond Chandler
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

EVERYTHING ELSE

LA Weekly
Cults (Parcast Network)
Heaven's Gate (Stitcher / Pineapple Street Media)

"Taking My Ex Back In (for His Own Good)" (Nancy Rommelmann, New York Times)

The Godfather (Paramount Pictures)
Reason.com
Wall Street Journal Book Review
The New Yorker

"Why Atul Gawande Will Soon Be The Most Feared CEO In Healthcare" (Robert Pearl, M.D., Forbes)

Game of Thrones (HBO)
Amanda Peet
@25inFive Instagram Readathon Account
William Langewiesche at Vanity Fair
William Langewiesche at the Atlantic
Patrick Melrose (Showtime)

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