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“The Blue Flame”: The Lawyer Nobody Likes, and Nobody Fires
George Pelecanos and the effective assistance of questionable counsel.
Book Reviews
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Ben Crump’s “Worse Than a Lie”: When Truth Isn’t Enough
This isn’t a thriller with shootouts; it’s a battle waged through motions
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Scott Eden’s “A Killing in Cannabis:” Send Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Santa Cruz Mountains have always attracted outlaws and dreamers.
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“The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family”
Was her parents’ marriage a love story or a research project? Was her mother a partner or a subject?
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They F*ck You Up, Then They Sue
The trial is a hot mess of unlicensed therapy and recovered memories
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Bernie Goetz and the Birth of the Vigilante Playbook
Heather Ann Thompson’s “Fear and Fury”
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A Christmas Carol, But Scrooge Killed the Planet and There’s No Third Act
Master Story Teller George Saunders Puts Big Oil on Trial in “Vigil”
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Elizabeth Chamblee Burch’s “The Pain Brokers” Reveals the Multi-million Dollar Scam Hiding in the Fine Print.
Did You Read That DocuSign Before Clicking?
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Is There Anything Better Than Reading A Top-Notch Thriller?
“I am not a spy who writes novels, I am a writer who briefly worked in the secret world.”
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How People Reveal Themselves on the Basketball Court
Ben Markovits’s Quietly Brilliant Novel, “The Rest of Our Lives”