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I’ll be at one of my all-time favorite bookstores tonight, the scrumptious Green Apple on Clement in San Francisco, doing an event with Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries–a memoir that’s every bit as addictive as its subject matter–and Paul Madonna, known and loved throughout the Bay Area for his All Over Coffee artistry, who will celebrating the premier issue of his annual publication, Album. Event begins at 7:00. Join us!
When I read this article about three little girls who were kidnapped by their father in 2007, I was struck by the uncanny similarities to The Year of Fog, particularly regarding the girls’ eventual recovery. The girls, who were abducted from their mother, Christine Bedford, during a custody visit with their father, David Matusiewicz, were eventually found living with Matusiewicz in a Winnebago in Central America. They had even spent time sleeping on a beach in Costa Rica. It wasn’t until March 2009 that a lead, on which authorities declined to elaborate, brought law enforcement officers to a town...
Here is Amanda Knox’s testimony about the fourteen-hour interrogation by Italian police. Knox says that she was persuaded by an interpreter that she must have remembered the events on the night of roommate Meredith Kercher’s murder incorrectly. While her behavior following Kercher’s murder appeared strange to many who observed her at that time, she appears to be a credible witness in this clip. Undergoing a 14-hour interrogation in which older men are shouting “Stupid liar” over and over again would be enough to make any interviewee buckle.
