Who Killed Marilyn?

"It ain't a mystery, baby, not to me."

Unless you’re like me and you scroll the Daily Mail on your iPhone every night before bed, you may not yet have encountered ASK NOT: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, which hits shelves July 2 from Little, Brown. The Mail has been extracting the fuck out of this book, written by one of the uber-tabloid’s U.S.-based columnist’s, Maureen Callahan. Lots of spicy Marilyn content, naturally:

My pal Adam Rathe over at Town & Country writes: “It is practically the birthright of every American to have a fascination with the Kennedys—and the infamous Kennedy curse. Maureen Callahan does us one better, stripping away the veneer of Camelot to present a searing, no holds barred account of scandal by zeroing in on the numerous destructions wrought by generations of Kennedy men against the women in their orbit.” Click!

Elsewhere… My pal Marisa Meltzer sizes up James Polchin’s SHADOW MEN for The New York Times Book Review: “Sex, Money and Séances: This 1922 Murder Had It All.” Newspaper.com’s Fishwrap blog takes a bite out of Bridgerton with its roundup up of real-life Lady Whistledowns from 1813 to 1924. Time/Made by History has the scoop on “the Identity of the Only Black Woman to Serve in the U.S. Army in World War I.” And JSTOR Daily serves up a little slice of Nellie Bly, just because.

Finally, thanks to Occulture Zine for their kind words about my recent Vanity Fair feature exploring the Hillside Strangler case and its connection to Hollywood punk rock’s class of ‘77. I’m happy to be mentioned in any post that also includes rare Screamers footage and artwork from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. That’s all for now. More soon…