by Mark Pinsky | May 10, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
From Tobacco Road to Deliverance and, in this century, from District 12 in The Hunger Games to the lame screen version of J.D. Vance’s simplistic, self-serving Hillbilly Elegy, the people of the Southern Appalachians have often been ill-served by American popular...
by Mark Pinsky | Apr 14, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Celebrating the New Edition of Met Her on the Mountain After meeting so many people in Madison County who have become good friends over the years, whenever I go back there, a part of me feels like I am coming home. That was true recently when I returned for a...
by Mark Pinsky | Mar 22, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain
Today, I want to share my recent review of Devil House, a new thriller about a true crime author who takes on a real murder and tries to use his own investigative skills to solve it. This idea is not as far-fetched as it might seem. In fact, the novel’s premise...
by Mark Pinsky | Mar 15, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain
For years, true crime has been considered a low- and middle-brow guilty pleasure, dating back to the 19th century Police Gazette tabloids. To be sure, since then, there have been modern crossover exceptions – books like In Cold Blood, The Stranger Beside Me, and Fatal...
by Mark Pinsky | Mar 8, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness
A curious aspect I’ve noticed over the years with nonfiction writing and broadcasting – newspapers, radio, magazines and books – is what information comes to you after publication or broadcast. The Importance of Validating Sources Time after time, I would write an...
