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The Moviegoer

Five chilling true-crime classics that capture primal American fears
The true-crime genre took root in Hollywood relatively late, but “In Cold Blood” and other films have found grisly cinematic inspiration in serial killers, homicidal delinquents, home invasions, and other real-life horrors.

Noted: @benratliff cites Albert Murray’s “Stomping the Blues” as key inspiration (we republish in Oct.)
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Influences

Viet Thanh Nguyen: We still live in Ralph Ellison’s moment
Guest post by the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winner in Fiction.
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David Denby: Is it still possible to teach The Scarlet Letter in high school?
Story of the Week

Frederick Law Olmsted, “Trees in Streets and in Parks”

New & Noteworthy

Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s LOA N°279
Abigail Adams: Letters LOA N°275
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826 LOA N°276
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (paperback)

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Writer of the Week Frederick Law Olmsted
Olmsted was one of the great creative figures of America, and his masterpieces are to be found not on the walls of museums but in the open air.
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