I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

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  There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an a

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  I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the s

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  Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write ab

• Poe Ballantine:

  'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

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  I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my

• Poe Ballantine:

  All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

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  One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighb

• Poe Ballantine:

  I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

• Poe Ballantine:

  Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal

• Poe Ballantine:

  Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.