The Docket 06.01.23
Mamet, Stone, Sebold, and the faulty narratives that endure
the true crime that's worth your time
David Mamet, Oliver Stone, and watchability versus reliability; assassination-crackpottery microgenres; the incompetence of organizations; true believers’ journalism fails; the TWO-tape VHS sets of our (relative) youth; which Boomer-preoccupation cases will endure; the JFK-Vietnam-Watergate paranoia troika; the exoneration of Anthony Broadwater and the vertigo of Alice Sebold; structuring a longform story about the fallibility of…stories; de-centering Timothy Mucciante (while mispronouncing his name); pitfalls of library-totebag white feminism; and compassion for your most extra writing teacher.
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…and “Kilgalleniana”, some of which SDB reviewed late last year
“The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape,” by Rachel Aviv
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