099: When They See Us and Who Killed Nancy?

Ava DuVernay's four-part masterpiece, When They See Us, hit Netflix last weekend, introducing us to the boys and men who survived getting railroaded for the 1989 "Central Park jogger" attacks; to the outsize acting talents of Jharrel Jerome, Asante Blackk, and many others; and to what it's like to cry when you see Coney Island. Piper and I discussed all that, plus innovations in flashback writing, in the Most Wanted section, but our words won't do the series justice, so just go watch it. But TAKE our words for it: Who Killed Nancy? is a frustrating waste of time, a semi-vanity project from a self-appointed Sid Vicious-ologist that we could tell WANTED to call itself Sid DIDN'T Kill Nancy Spungen, But If He Had, Nobody Would Have Minded. Is this just how the culture talked about "groupies" and "Yokos" until recently, or was Nancy a special case? And who else read Nancy's mother's memoir of her daughter's life and wants to recommend it to Piper? Good podcasts, sad Gerard Malanga stories, and more in The Blotter Presents, Episode 099. Support the pod/site on Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/blotterpresents) ! SHOW NOTES When They See Us (https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549) Sarah Weinman on Reyes’s other victims for The Cut (https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/the-attackers-other-victims-in-the-central-park-five-case.html) That time the Mystery Writers of America withdrew Linda Fairstein’s Grand Master award (https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-mwa-linda-fairstein-20181127-story.html) Who Killed Nancy? (https://www.hulu.com/movie/who-killed-nancy-5fe2dbdd-13a6-4256-bf8e-0f54171bd435) Deborah Spungen’s And I Don’t Want To Live This Life (https://books.google.com/books/about/And_I_Don_t_Want_to_Live_This_Life.html?id=BWpH6RQ1jT8C) Piper Weiss’s You All Grow Up And Leave Me (https://www.amazon.com/You-All-Grow-Leave-Obsession-ebook/dp/B0713W46F3) Special Guest: Piper Weiss.