081: The Skies Belong To Us And The New Yorker's "A Cold Case"

First-time guest Alex Segura joints me to talk about The Skies Belong To Us, a page-turner that made a bunch of 2013's best-of lists -- and with good reason, as each of us only needed a day to finish it. But it did leave us wanting more of some subjects, and not necessarily in a pleasing way. Later, we go back even further in time with a New Yorker piece from 2000 on the crimes and disappearance of Frank Koehler, one that satisfies two competing readerly desires: to see someone walk away from a "perfect" crime; and to see justice done. SHOW NOTES The The Skies Belong To Us website (https://theskiesbelongtous.com/the-story/) , which might do in a pinch if you didn't read the book (yet; spoiler: you should, it's good!) "A Cold Case" (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/02/14/a-cold-case) in The New Yorker Where my click-slide into mid-century boxing lingo (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ham-and-egger) began Rosenzweig's bookstore, Book 'Em (https://www.whereorg.com/book-em-14493426) , is still there; get the car! And bring one of Alex's books (http://www.alexsegura.com/) for the road Special Guest: Alex Segura.