Dirty John and Other True Stories of ..., Christopher Goffard
Dirty John and Other True Stories of ..., Christopher Goffard
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Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders

Author: Christopher Goffard

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2018


Synopsis

A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.

Since its release in fall 2017, the “Dirty John” podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard. Over two decades at newspapers from Florida to California, Goffard has reported probingly on the shadowy, unseen corners of society. This book gathers together for the first time “Dirty John” and the rest of his very best work.

“The $40 Lawyer” provides an inside account of a young public defender’s rookie year in the legal trenches. “Framed” offers an unblinking chronicle of suburban mayhem (and is currently being developed by Netflix as a film starring Julia Roberts). A man wrongly imprisoned for rape, train-riding runaways in love, a Syrian mother forced to leave her children in order to save them, a boy who grows up to become a cop as a way of honoring his murdered sister, another boy who struggles with the knowledge that his father is on death row: these stories reveal the complexities of human nature, showing people at both their most courageous and their most flawed.

Goffard shared in the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011 and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing. This collection—a must-read for fans of both true-crime and first-rate narrative nonfiction—underscores his reputation as one of today’s most original journalistic voices.

About Christopher Goffard

Christopher Goffard is one of America's most acclaimed literary journalists. He has written for the St. Petersburg Times and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya, based on his Los Angeles Times series; the novel Snitch Jacket, which was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel; and Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders. His work appears regularly in the Best American Newspaper Narratives series.


Reviews

"A story is a different life-form. A story is an experience . Like a movie or a song or a poem, the good ones allow you to live inside other people's skulls for a little while and to touch the quick of their terror and grief and longing". Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders by......more

Goodreads review by Luanne

Christopher Goffard is an award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter. Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders is a collection of his best work. Wow! I was hooked from the first story until the last - and quite sad when I did reach the end. I could happily listen to everything Goffard......more

Goodreads review by Josh

Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders by Chris Goffard is a collection of real-life stories curated by the author. Goffard’s background in in journalism shines through as each of the stories is indeed interesting in concept; however, Dirty John loses its footing in the storytell......more

Goodreads review by Geoff

This guy can really write. I had read the Dirty John story in the paper, and it was well done. The other stories in here are outstanding. Better than The Best American Short Stories books.......more