David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new book is Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.\n\n \u201cThe more stories I reported over time, the more I just realized there are parts of the story I can\u2019t always get to. You know, unless this is a reality show and there\u2019s 18 cameras in every room, and people [talk] before they sleep, and maybe you have some mind-bug in their brain for their unconscious, there are just parts you\u2019re just not gonna know. You get as close as you can. And so the struggle to me is to get as close as I can, to peel it back as close as I can, but understanding that there will be elements, there will be pieces, that will remain lingering doubts.\u201d\n\nThanks to Stamps.com, Squarespace, and MailChimp for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@DavidGrann\ndavidgrann.com\nGrann on Longform\n[00:45] David Grann on the Longform Podcast\n[01:45] Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday \u2022 2017)\n[14:15] Stoner\n[22:15] Scrivener\n[37:00] "The Yankee Comandante" (New Yorker \u2022 May 2012)\n[38:45] The Hill\n[43:15] "Trial By Fire" (New Yorker \u2022 Sep 2009)\n[1:03:45] Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner \u2022 Vintage \u2022 1990)\n[1:03:45] "How William Faulkner Tackled Race\u2014and Freed the South From Itself" (John Jeremiah Sullivan \u2022 New York Times Magazine \u2022 June 2012)\n[1:04:15] Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald \u2022 Modern Library \u2022 2011)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices