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“I think the real trick is telling stories chronologically, letting them unfold as they really happened.”
“I’d rather find the story and excavate it than make it up.”
“I think every story is a struggle and a puzzle.”
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For Episode 99 I welcome David Grann, a New Yorker staff writer and the best-selling author of The Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. This is the best book I’ve read all year and with good reason. We dig into his approach to writing this book as well as key literary influences and why he ultimately landed on telling true stories.
Killers of the Flower Moon, a national book award finalist, is not available in paperback.
You can find more about David at his website davidgrann.netlify.com and follow him on Twitter @DavidGrann.
I’m @BrendanOMeara and @CNFPod on Twitter and you can like the Facebook page here.
David Grann’s Work
The Killers of the Flower Moon
The Lost City of Z
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
New Yorker Archive
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