Nonfiction
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Coyote America
Dan Flores writes in Coyote America “I have borne witness to certain truth about coyotes as neighbors: you do not see them as much as hear them.” I live in an area where there is a large coyote population, I hardly ever see a coyote but I hear them all the time. Dan Flores has… Continue reading
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The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science
Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up, truth is always stranger than fiction. There are two stories in The Death of Innocents: The first is about Dr. Alfred Steinschneider who based his clinical research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) on the actions of a serial murderer. In 1970 and 1971 Waneta Hoyt lost… Continue reading
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
I was twenty-four years old and living in the Bay Area when Patty Hearst was kidnapped. It was without a doubt one of the strangest things to happen during the counter-culture movement of the late sixties – early seventies. Toobin retells the story of Hearst’s kidnapping and her conversion to an SLA member. He has… Continue reading