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You have written multiple novels under your nom de plume Selena Montgomery. Yes, I have what a name Here are some of the titles Never Tell

You have written multiple novels under your nom de plume Selena Montgomery. Yes, I have what a name Here are some of the titles never tell Hidden Sins

You have written multiple novels under your nom de plume Selena Montgomery. Yes, I have what a name Here are some of the titles never tell hidden sins secrets and lies reckless deception

I've been working on this for 25 years. I ran for Congress in 1992 in part on fighting carbon pollution. So I've been at this a long time. I co-authored a book about it 12 years ago.

She's a reporter for Vanity Fair and the author of Born Trump Inside America's First Family.

Recommend it. Really subverts the cowboy tropes.

She's the former president of Planned Parenthood Pro-choice activist And her book Make Trouble is out now Please welcome Cecile Richards

Number three, Into Thin Air by John Krakauer.

The Starr Report, Independent Counsel Ken Starr investigated former President Bill Clinton for obstruction of justice.

His report was over 400 pages.

It covered Clinton's allegations of obstruction.

It had sensitive info in it.

It had grand jury testimony.

It had a deeply embarrassing personal information in it, including about Monica Lewinsky.

But the number one best selling book on October 18th, 1998 was the fucking Star Report.

Forget show it to the public.

They sold it at Barnes and Noble.

Louis Vertl plucked from the shelf a book called Leonard Maltin's 2002 Movie and Video Guide.

And he just said casually, you know I had this book when I was a kid and I remember all the star numbers, all the rankings.

I may have had a lot of time as a child, I don't understand. I would just flip through and like if a movie came on TV I would need to know what he thought of it because like he didn't give four stars a lot and when he gave something bomb which is zero stars you remembered it's like he is pissed.

From Leonard Maltin's 2002 movie and video guide, let's open to a random page. Days of Thunder, 1990. Bad.

People started digging around about this Mark Judge fellow, and it turns out he wrote a book entitled Wasted, Tales of a Gen X Drunk.

When my high school buddies and I got together and exchanged memories of that time, we found ourselves genuinely shocked at the stuff we got away with.

The Washington Post praised it as a serious work of investigative journalism and the New York Times as carefully reasoned and powerful in its logic.

Brocks now describes the book as a quote character assassination and has since disavowed its premise. He says he lied specifically to protect Clarence Thomas and said he did everything he could to quote ruin Anita Hill's credibility using quote virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation I had collected on Hill.

George W. Bush created the conditions that led to books like Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country.

I recommend everyone see it I think it's so good. And I want to talk about people that Think that it's slow Or think that it's meandering I read some reviews that were just like It's good, but... And I'm like what are you talking about?

You want to go directly at that? No, we need to meander because it's so heavy.

It's scary, it's creepy as hell And I don't want to go fast It should meander It's got to take its time to get to the horrifying shocking ending That I will not tell you

Don't hook up with anyone who says That Sharp Objects is too slow Because it just means they have no concept of pacing

And then when I get depressed, which I do a lot, um, I just open up the fire next time and notes of a native son.

Everything's crazy now. Let me just... Two years ago, everything I said made sense. And now none of it makes sense anymore.

The internet was a place... Terrified. I know. No, I still like I wake up in the middle of the night and kind of have palpitations and need to take a drink and go back to bed.

So very early days. There was a website out there that said, how many cows are in Texas? There are no cows. Aliens have abducted all the cows and replaced them with alien cow doppelgangers that eventually will rise up, right?

And my dissertation was like, how do we prove that this stuff is not true? And you could do that by leveraging the power of the internet and who you trusted and these social networks that we were starting to build.

It all seemed like and continued after that to seem like a place where we were going to be able to debunk these conspiracies to crowdsource the truth. And then it all went really wrong.