Episode 76: Rachel Monroe
On this episode, Rachel Monroe talks with host Matt Tullis. Monroe\u2019s first book, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession, was published by Scribner. It went on sale today, August 19.\n\nThe book tells the stories of four true crimes that had women intimately involved in them, but all in different capacities.\xa0\n\nMonroe is a freelance writer based in Marfa, Texas. She also serves as a volunteer firefighter there. She\u2019s written about crime, communes, utopias, drones, small town, firefighters, haunted houses, really just about everything.\xa0\n\nShe was a finalist for a Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2016 and was named one of 56 women journalists everyone should read by New York Magazine.\n\nShe\u2019s been published by The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and Esquire, among many others. Her essay about murder, fandom, and adolescence, \u201cOutside the Manson Pinkberry\u201d was originally published in The Believer, and was anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing 2018.