Daniel Friedman: Mystery Novels and True Crime

0:00 – Intro: crime novelist Daniel Friedman
0:33 – The Don't Ever Get Old series
2:42 – Riot Most Uncouth and Lord Byron at Cambridge
5:43 – Why reading is harder now and books' decline
10:14 – Cereal jingles, frescoes, and the Medici
12:09 – The end of cultural touchstone books
15:12 – Daniel's new novel: a disgraced cop and an AI partner
16:54 – Why detectives walk into other people's problems
19:27 – Optioning Don't Ever Get Old and the new Naked Gun
22:33 – Running Out of Road and true crime podcasts
23:21 – Serial and the Adnan Syed case
26:36 – Making a Murderer and Steven Avery
31:30 – Brendan Dassey and why murderers confess
33:08 – The myth of the genius serial killer
37:19 – The Central Park Five at the DNC
38:41 – What happened in Central Park that night
40:32 – Confessions, DNA, and the prosecution's theory
43:31 – Matias Reyes and vacating the convictions
45:47 – Bloomberg, de Blasio, and the $40 million settlement
48:38 – Netflix's When They See Us and misleading casting
50:20 – The cancellation of Linda Fairstein
52:32 – How media shapes crime narratives
53:29 – The history of execution methods
55:51 – How lethal injection actually works
59:32 – Hanging, firing squads, and livestock slaughter
1:02:51 – Activists defending obviously guilty killers
1:05:32 – The West Memphis Three and Damien Echols
1:08:14 – A poem from killers' last statements
1:10:25 – Life without parole and wrap-up