Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
"The book is a success, thoughtful and thought provoking. It is also gruesome, ghoulish, and appalling--and utterly fascinating."--The Daily Beast"[An] insightfully unorthodox history of famous murders."--New Yorkmagazine"James turns out to be not just the most important writer/thinker on baseball of our generation but also—completely unexpectedly—to have read more books in the true crime genre than maybe anyone else alive. InPopular Crimehe works his way though every major true crime story of the last 200 years— from Lizzie Borden to JonBenet Ramsey—making (as one would expect) all kinds of brilliant, wildly entertaining and occasionally completely nutty Jamesian observations."—Malcolm Gladwell "Great, cozy bedtime reading."—Gillian Flynn, author ofGone Girl