Alex Mar
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A work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager - and its even more shocking aftermath. In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a Black teenage girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer, is sentenced to death. Indiana's minimum age for the death penalty is, at that time, ten...
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This is a memoir of the author's immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism - from its roots in 1950s England to its twenty-first century American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies - and decides to train...
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Set against the rich, color-soaked backdrop of America's rural landscapes, Alex Mar's lyrical first work is a bold and artful documentary that braids together the stories of three young Americans who have chosen to sacrifice comforts in order to embrace the fringes of alternative religion. Mar takes a personal, visually lush approach, enveloping the viewer in the subjects experience of their controversial faiths through their own words.
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"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" -- from publisher.