Attention lovers of the hit podcast SERIAL!
I'm delighted that the Los Angeles Review of Books has just published my essay comparing Sarah Koenig's brainchild to Sebastian Junger's book A Death in Belmont.

Here's a bit:

�It�s really hard to account for your time,� Koenig observed, then proceeded to ask several seemingly random teenagers to remember what they�d done on a day six weeks earlier. None of them could.

Okay, so memory is unreliable. But � three million listeners were hooked on this show. Why?

For the rest of my wrestling match with this question, go to
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