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Podcast: Howie Severino Presents
Episode: Patricia Evangelista on her first book, a surprise critical hit | Part 1
Description: Newly published in the United States, Patricia Evangelista's book, "Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in my Country," has been appearing on prestigious lists of best books of the year. The editor of the esteemed New Yorker magazine called it a "journalistic masterpiece."When Patricia spoke to Howie Severino, she sounded more relieved than elated, having finished a four-year struggle to write a book that failed to meet various deadlines. She talks about the weight of processing the trauma of many victims' families, the risks of naming names, and the obsessive fact-checking and due diligence...