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- Title: Ain't Nothing But a Meanness in This World (Opinion) ("True Crime" Fiction) (Critical Essay)
- Author : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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You'll find here Truman Capote, and James Thurber, and Dorothy Killgallen, and "the queen of true crime," Ann Rule. You'll find here the literati, and the popular hacks, and the bored corporate lawyers with hobbies in unsolved murders, and the penny-a-word boys from the lurid old pulps, and the college-educated newspaper columnists struggling to perfect their tough-guy personas. You'll find here the puritanical murders of Cotton Mather's time, and the prairie crimes of Abraham Lincoln's day, and the rapes of young girls in the 1940s, and the clue-ridden corpses scattered like bread crumbs by the serial killers of the 1970s. What you won't find, however, is much real story--the narrative drive that makes the reader want to turn the page. The Library of America's newest volume, True Crime, is an impressive anthology: fifty interesting selections, smartly chosen by Harold Schechter, a mystery writer who teaches at Queens College in New York. Arranged more or less chronologically, the selections begin with the murder of John Newcomin, as told by William Bradford in his 1651 History of Plymouth Plantation, and end with the Menendez brothers' 1989 slaughter of their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills, as told by Dominick Dunne in the pages of Vanity Fair.