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Author Claudia Rose joined the podcast to discuss her book, "The Spider and the Fly," which details her correspondence with a serial killer. The conversation centered on the work's focus on the nature of cruelty and the manipulative relationship between the reporter and their subject, positioning it as non-traditional true crime that delves into journalistic ethics. The host strongly endorsed the book, highlighting its depth and recommending the audiobook to listeners.
Episode: Episode 90
It was written by a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who corresponded with a serial killer. It explored the nature of cruelty and the reporter-subject relationship, and was described as being like poetry.
It's called The Spider and the Fly.
It's a story about finding yourself and delving into what makes you human. And of course, murder.
I'm a journalist and author of The Spider and the Fly, a reporter, a serial killer and the meaning of murder.
I love your book I really appreciate you coming on is there anything else you want to add before we close out the one just just to underscore that I think the book as as you've said isn't traditional true crime it is really trying to look at the subject writer relationship and while I spoke about that in this interview and I and it's in the book to some degree the subject writer relationship is as manipulative and confusing as as the relationship between Kendall Francois and myself and any kind of serial killer and their mark and their prey so I'm surely not saying a writer is like a serial killer but I am saying that there were some parallel manipulations going on and that's really what the book is about who is the reporter what is their role and how does that color what we see because this is a book but it's it's true in your daily newspaper too
Remember that Claudia Rose book the spider and the fly a writer a murderer and a story of obsession is available on audible and listeners can get her audio book for free with a 30 day trial membership by going to audible.com slash monsters again that's audible.com slash monsters go get this audio book which I highly recommend today
