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My Killer Apartment

Stories of slammed doors and sad spirits aside, the man who committed suicide in Julia Dahl’s apartment probably isn’t there anymore. Probably.

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The Lives of Others

The story of my involvement with Tyeisha Martin, a Katrina survivor and murder victim. Watch Tyeisha’s America’s Most Wanted episode.  Listen to me speak about Tyeisha on NPR’s “On the Media.”

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Why I Write About Crime

For the past 10 years I have devoted my professional life – and my imagination – to things most people would rather not think about. The post Why I Write About Crime appeared first on Julia Dahl.

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The Previous Tenant

In October 2007, my husband and I were looking for an apartment in Brooklyn. We’d seen too many to count and none worth the price, so when a one-bedroom just off Prospect Park popped up for $1200 we...

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“Are you Jewish?”

Yes. But it’s complicated. My mother is Jewish, which, as my grandmother used to tell me, means that the Nazis would have come for me, too. My dad, on the other hand, is Christian. And not just a...

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What I read while researching novels about the ultra-Orthodox

Recommendations for books, articles and radio reports that helped me research my first novel, Invisible City, and its upcoming sequel, Run You Down. I hope they deepen your enjoyment of my books, spur...

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What I learned about journalism at the New York Post

…”The New York Post taught me to read people quickly and to be brave in pursuit of a story. Asking intimate questions of strangers and powerful people is always going to be frightening. But you can’t...

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Are Novelists Already Writing About Covid? An Author Investigates

Last month, I turned in the copy edits for my fourth novel. The next week, when I opened up the rough outline for my fifth, I was confronted with this question: does Covid-19 exist in the new book I’m...

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How Does The “Justice System” Work For You?

It prob­a­bly won’t sur­prise you to learn that I’ve nev­er been arrest­ed. It prob­a­bly won’t even sur­prise you to learn that for the first two decades of my life I’d nev­er known any­one who’d...

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