Me & Shel: An Unfinished Obsession
May 10 was the 20th anniversary of Shel Silverstein’s death, which happened a few short months after my own obsession with his work and life began. At...
The Crime Lady V2, #11: Crime Reading
Dear TCL Readers: May in New York is my favorite time of year. The foliage is full, the city feels more awake and alive, and my natural inclination to walk...
The Crime Lady V2, #10: Lethal Decisions
Dear TCL Readers:March was positively lion-like over here, at least in terms of my workload. Somehow I traveled at a similar pace to last fall, doing events...
The Crime Lady: The Forensic Scientist Who Solves Genealogy Mysteries, Too
(editor’s note: an early draft of this newsletter was sent in error. The corrected version appears below, and also, a day later than intended.) Dear TCL...
The Crime Lady V2, #9: Cold Cases at the Root
Dear TCL Readers,When I started writing full-time at the beginning of the year, one of my goals was — in addition to having more time to devote to the new...
The Crime Lady: Highsmith and Nabokov at the Theater
Dear TCL subscribers,I don’t often go to the theater, so attending two off-Broadway productions in 48 hours, as I did this past week, is unusual behavior....
The Crime Lady V2, #8: The Webs We Tangle
Dear TCL Readers, So as I mentioned in my last dispatch, The Crime Lady is becoming a paid newsletter. In fact, I sent out my first one to those who have...
The Crime Lady: Rediscovery, Revival, and Redress
Dear TCL subscribers: If you are receiving this dispatch, it means you are a paid subscriber. So first, my deepest thanks for kicking in a few bucks a month...
The Crime Lady V2, #7: You Can't Like Everything (But Mostly, You Can)
Dear TCL Readers, Two weeks into 2019 and things are already weird and strange. I’m adjusting to full-time writer life, which, truth be told, isn’t that much...
The Crime Lady V2, #6: The Year That Was, The Year That Will Be
Dear TCL Readers,As 2018 draws to a close, I can make one promise for 2019: I’ll be sending more newsletters, and at a reasonably regular (if still...
The Crime Lady V.2, #5: While On the Road
Dear TCL Readers,The Real Lolita has been out for about five weeks and….a whole lot has happened. I have done events in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan,...
The Crime Lady, V.2, #4: Publication Day For THE REAL LOLITA
Dear TCL Readers, Today is the day. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized The World is published in the US (by...
The Crime Lady V.2, #3: Book Tour Updates, and More
Dear TCL Readers, The Real Lolita publishes in less than two weeks. I’ve done well for months to stay chill and enjoy the pre-publication runup, but the...
The Crime Lady, v2, #2: Dreaming in Yiddish, Fake Nun Scams, and More
Dear TCL Readers, We’re seven (!) weeks out from the publication date of The Real Lolita and…a lot continues to happen. Which means there will also be a lot...
The Crime Lady, Rebooted
THE REAL LOLITA, What I'm Up To Lately, and More
