December 2022 Bonus Review, Pt. 2: Kilgallen
The writers vs. the rest of it
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
Good gravy, where to begin. Do we mean the possibility that the titular Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered for teaming up with Mark Lane to investigate the assassination of JFK? Do we mean all the other crimes Kilgallen wrote about, very early in a storied and varied career whose obit lede was What’s My Line?
Do we mean author Lee Israel’s turn to a life of crime after her career as a biographer went off the boil?
…Remember that “gnat cloud of footnotes” I mentioned a few days ago? Grab some Deep Woods Off, this shit’s ridic.
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