O...M...Jay!!! We talk about that interview.

Published: Jan. 5, 2015, 2:07 a.m.

b'Rebecca and Kevin invite special guests and fellow crime writers Lara Bricker and Toby Ball to talk about Jay\'s interview with The Intercept and the discussion/debate\\xa0that\'s followed.\\nWe also talk about the intellectual guilt of true crime lovers, and Lara\'s theory that this story is more steeped in drugs than we\'ve been led to believe. Also, Toby plays devil\'s advocate, and a reddit user gets a big shout out for this thread.\\nYou can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes\\xa0right here.\\xa0If you do, please leave a review!\\xa0\\nWant to support this independently produced podcast so we can make more episodes? Click the donate button on our home page, and thanks!\\n\\n\\nDuring this episode, we discuss how The Intercept\'s Natasha Vargas-Cooper landed the interview with Jay. You can find more on that in this New York Observer story.\\nWho\'s Who in \'Crime Writers on Serial\':\\nRebecca\\xa0Lavoie\\xa0is a public radio digital director and radio producer\\xa0and the co-author of three mass-market\\xa0true crime books. If you\\u2019re flipping through the more obscure channels on your cable lineup late at night, you might see Rebecca talking about crime on one of those\\xa0docu-journalism\\xa0TV shows\\u2026you know, the kind with\\xa0names like\\xa0Deadly Women\\xa0and\\xa0Deadly Sins.\\xa0\\nKevin Flynn\\xa0is Rebecca\'s real-life partner in crime and\\xa0her co-author. Kevin was a long time TV reporter before jumping into crime writing with his first book about serial killer Sheila\\xa0LaBarre,\\xa0You can also hear Kevin talking about that case on\\xa0this episode\\xa0of the excellent crime podcast\\xa0Criminal.\\xa0Among the books Kevin and Rebecca have written together is\\xa0Our Little Secret,\\xa0which they discuss in the episode about "Rumors."\\xa0\\xa0\\nSpecial guest panelists:\\nLara\\xa0Bricker\\xa0is a long-time reporter, freelance writer and the author of the true crime book\\xa0Lie After Lie.\\xa0She has also worked as a private detective and a criminal defense investigator.\\xa0\\nToby Ball\\xa0is \\xa0the author of\\xa0Invisible Streets\\xa0and other works of noir and crime fiction. He also works at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.\\n\\nClick here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.: https://patreon.com/partnersincrimemedia'