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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Tom Kizzia: author on ghost town McCarthy
Description: Send us Fan MailAuthor Tom Kizzia is most well-known for his best-selling 2013 book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier, which was chosen by the New York Times as the best true crime book set in Alaska. Kizzia began his life in our state in the late 70s as a Homer-based journalist at the Homer News. In the early 80s he was hired by the late Howard Weaver to work at the Anchorage Daily News where he started as a crime reporter. In 1983 he visited McCarthy for the first time to...