Episode 346: Casey Cep

Published: June 5, 2019, 6:13 p.m.

b'Casey Cep has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic. She is the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.\\n\\n\\u201cI want to meet all of these expectations. I want my book to be a page-turner. I want it to be a beautiful literary object. I want it to sell. I want it to do all of these things. But at the end of the day, I just want to feel like I\\u2019ve honored this commitment between writer and reader, and writer and source. And those are sometimes in conflict.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n@cncep\\n\\n\\nCep on Longform\\n\\n\\n[00:07] Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Knopf \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n\\n[09:51] The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Erik Larson \\u2022 Vintage \\u2022 2004)\\n\\n\\n[10:39] The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (David Grann \\u2022 Vintage Books \\u2022 2010)\\n\\n\\n[14:30] The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Book You\\u2019ll Never Read (Stuart Kelly \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2006)\\n\\n\\n[16:50] Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee \\u2022 HarperCollins \\u2022 2015)\\n\\n\\n[17:08] Calpurnia\\u2019s Cookbook (Monroe County Heritage Museums \\u2022 2000)\\n\\n\\n[20:08] To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee \\u2022 Grand Central Publishing \\u2022 1988)\\n\\n\\n[22:30] Cep\\u2019s Harvard Crimson archive\\n\\n\\n[22:45] Cep\\u2019s Harvard Magazine archive\\n\\n\\n[23:36] In Cold Blood (Truman Capote \\u2022 Vintage \\u2022 1994)\\n\\n\\n[23:52] Harper Lee\\u2019s Profile of In Cold Blood (Real Simple \\u2022 2014)\\n\\n\\n[24:28] Cep\\u2019s Pacific Standard archive\\n\\n\\n[24:32] Cep\'s New York Times archive\\n\\n\\n[24:36] Cep\\u2019s New Yorker archive\\n\\n\\n[25:26] "Mystery in Monroeville" (New Yorker \\u2022 2015)\\n\\n\\n[25:42] "Harper Lee\\u2019s Forgotten True Crime Project" (New Yorker \\u2022 2015)\\n\\n\\n[27:42] All God\\u2019s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (Theodore Rosegarten \\u2022 Alfred A. Knopf \\u2022 1974)\\n\\n\\n[27:42] Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee \\u2022 Mariner Books \\u2022 2001)\\n\\n\\n[30:35] S-Town\\n\\n\\n[31:50] "In Cold Blood: The Last to See Them Alive" (Truman Capote \\u2022 The New Yorker \\u2022 1965)\\n\\n\\n[31:55] Evidence of Things Not Seen (James Baldwin \\u2022 Picador \\u2022 1995)\\n\\n\\n[32:00] The Basement: Meditiations on Human Sacrifice (Kate Millett \\u2022 Simon Schuster \\u2022 1979)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'