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The legendary journalist Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer and many other books, joins Mark Oppenheimer, Brian Francis Slattery, and Binnie Klein to talk about her new book, Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial.
Malcolm’s new book is about the trial of a Bukharan Jewish mother in the insular ethnic community of Forest Hills, Queens, who was convicted of hiring a hit man to kill her ex-husband. But as ever with Malcolm’s books, what looks open-and-shut ends up being very much open, with no conclusive verdict in sight. In this rare radio interview, Malcolm talks about her reporting process, her writing, and the brand new Metro-North car, part of the new fleet, that she rode in on.
