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Is there something that you always wanted to ask our writers?→
Tomorrow at 4 PM ET, David Grann and Patrick Radden Keefe will discuss non-fiction crime writing in a Google+ hangout. Have questions for the writers? Leave them here, and they’ll get to as many as they can during their hangout: http://bit.ly/11OqjwP
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In my article about the Amy Bishop case in this week’s issue of the magazine, I describe visiting Sam and Judy Bishop at their house in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and sitting with Judy while she flipped through photo albums that document, poignantly, life before the two calamities that shaped the family: the death of their son, Seth Bishop, at the age of eighteen, in 1986, when his sister Amy shot him (in what the family still maintains was an accident), and the 2010 rampage in which Amy shot six of her colleagues at the University of Alabama, in Huntsville. These pictures, which the Bishops shared with me, capture the family in happier times: during Seth’s short life and during the early years of Amy’s marriage, before the move to Huntsville. “We are damaged people,” Judy Bishop told me. “We’ll never be the same.”
Click-through for a slideshow of photos from the Bishop family album, and more from Patrick Radden Keefe on the tragic past of mass shooter Amy Bishop: http://nyr.kr/14HTlfj
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Podcast: Killer Narratives→
This week in the magazine, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the Amy Bishop case. In 2010 Bishop shot and killed several colleagues at the University of Alabama. In the aftermath of that crime, it was revealed that Bishop had shot and killed her brother in 1986, which Bishop and her parents have always claimed was an accident. Here Keefe and New Yorker staff writer David Grann talk with their editor Daniel Zalewski about the Amy Bishop story, non-fiction crime writing more generally, and how to approach the truth when certainty is impossible. Also, Kelefa Sanneh on drinking Scotch. Listen now, and click-through for more: http://nyr.kr/VJIXQi
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Double Take
Introducing Double Take, our new blog from the archives. Check back over the next few days to see some of our favorite pieces from the magazine’s eighty-seven year history. Here, we take stock of a few groundbreaking investigative pieces that have significantly influenced the national discourse over the past century.
Two of these, “Hiroshima” and “Silent Spring,” are pieces that, when they were published, produced noticeable changes in the public’s thinking on the issues of nuclear war and the environment. Another, “Survival,” helped introduce the country to the man who would later become its thirty-fifth president.
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“Finding Fernanda”: Pictures from an Investigation
“Finding Fernanda,” the first book by the photojournalist and investigative reporter Erin Siegal, uncovers pervasive fraud in the international adoption industry, specifically between Guatemala and the U.S. It’s not a photo book, but photographs are central to its conception.
On Saturday, Siegal will celebrate the publication of “Finding Fernanda” at powerHouse Books in Brooklyn. For more photographs from her reporting: http://nyr.kr/sM1ykI
