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Hey, true crime friends! This week Mary breaks down the suspicious and unexplained death of 19-year-old Keith Warren. Keith Warren was supposed to attend North Carolina Central University before his life was cut short.  PLEASE LISTEN TO THE TRIGGER WARNING To support Sherri Warren in her fight for justice, click HERE . Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram .  Become a patron by clic...

Become a Patreon member for $5 (a cup of iced coffee) and watch our video version:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/66398839 Writer of Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy (2017), Elizabeth Winder joins Andrew and Mary in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room. One major theme that Elizabeth discusses is how the general public views the tragedy of female celebrities and why the media delights in the trag...

Hey, true crime friends! This week, Mary sits down with the hosts of the YouTube channel Drunken True Crime- Erika and Natalie.  Follow Erika and Natalie on Instagram . Watch Drunken True Crime on YouTube .  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram .  Become a Patron by clicking here . 

Join our Patreon community and watch the video version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66111196 Celia Laskey, author of Under the Rainbow (her debut novel) joins Andrew and Mary to discuss so many insightful questions that speak to writing an LGBTQ+ novel in the 21st century. Here are a few questions she addresses: What is it like to write an LGBTQ+ novel as someone from the community? Where d...

Hey, true crime friends! Welcome back to another episode of True Crime in Academia. This week we will be concluding the Stanford Murders series.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram.  To become a patron, click here.  Sources:  https://people.com/crime/alleged-stanford-murders-serial-killer-convicted-1974-murder/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/stanford-murders-conviction-renews-hope-justice-2nd-a...

Dana Wilkey joins Andrew in The Ivory Tower Boiler Room with all of her Gossip and Reality TV expertise! Dana is the host of the podcast and Patreon, Dishing Drama With Dana Wilkey and DecaDish Gossip , her exclusive YouTube channel. Dana is a former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member and with her Housewives insider knowledge she appeared on both The Housewife and the Hustler and The Hou...

Hey, true crime friends! Welcome back to another episode of True Crime in Academia. This week Mary will be breaking down the alleged perpetrator of the Stanford Murders and his first crimes. Please listen to the trigger warning at the beginning of the episode! Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram .  Become a patron by clicking here . Sources:  https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/20...

(Watch the free video interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65427804 ) Andrew is joined with David Yontef who is a self-made millionaire, Reality TV Insider and Host of the Award Winning Podcast Behind The Velvet Rope.  David begins the interview explaining that Margaret Josephs told him he needs to make a business out of his Real Housewives connections. And he did just that after att...

Hey, true crime friends! Welcome back to another episode of True Crime in Academia. This week we will cover the strange disappearance of Harvard archeology student Anne Abraham.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram. Become a patron by clicking here.  Sources: We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_1348 https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/inside-the-...

(Watch our video interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65141616 ) The Ivory Tower Boiler Room is so happy to celebrate National Poetry Month, and we're pleased to welcome Dr. Susan Holbrook who discusses her second edition of How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (published by Broadview Press).  Dr. Holbrook, Andrew, and guest co-host, Dr. Kim Coates explore why the general public is n...

(Watch our video interview here:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/65103076 ) We welcome Helana back again to The Ivory Tower Boiler Room for our first ever Book Corner episode! Dr. Helana Darwin sits down with Andrew to discuss her new book Redoing Gender: How Nonbinary Gender Contributes Toward Social Change . Helana is an author who has written about gender, religion, Body Positivity, craft b...

Hey, true crime friends! This week on True Crime in Academia, Mary breaks down the murder of University of North Carolina student, Faith Hedgepeth.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram .  Become a patron by clicking here .  Sources: Who Killed the Co-Ed series on Discovery + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Faith_Hedgepeth https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/us/faith-hedge...

Andrew is so thrilled to be reunited and joined by his Kean University undergraduate mentor, Dr. Jan Balakian. Jan talks about her new play Dreams on Fire which will have a Zoom reading on April 27th at 5pm.  Use this link to watch the reading: https://kean-edu.zoom.us/j/93693342238 Dreams on Fire tells the story of the Armenian Genocide and the traumatic effects on future generations. When J...

(Watch the video version on our Patreon for free! https://www.patreon.com/posts/spring-22-bonus-64715737 )  This week is National Library Week so we thought why not bring you all a special bonus episode! Andrew is joined with librarians, Emily Ostrander and Darla Salva Cruz, and the three all discuss their favorite library memories and the importance of literature in their life.  Make su...

Hey, true crime friends! This week on True Crime in Academia Mary interviews writer and producer Paul Haynes. Paul worked with the late author Michelle McNamara on her best-selling true crime novel I'll Be Gone in The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram .  To become a patron of Ivory Tower Boiler Room and its podcast...

CW: sexual assault and trauma  (Watch our video version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64672155 ) We talk to Mona Awad about her 2021 novel All's Well and discuss how she turned to Shakespeare for literary inspiration. Then, Mona discusses how her own personal journey with chronic pain made its way into her novel. And, she explains how Miranda Fitch, her protagonist struggles with academ...

(Part 2 of our interview with Taylor Ferber) (Watch the video version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64300670 ) We're ecstatic to feature Taylor Ferber, pop culture provocateur and host of the "Cancel Me, Baby" podcast. She discusses her thoughts on #CancelCulture, the #MeToo movement in reference to her interview with Joe Francis (creator of "Girls Gone Wild"), and we do a deep dive of "Pam...

Hey, true crime friends! Welcome back to season 2 of True Crime in Academia. This week Mary is breaking down the murder of Lauren Gidding, a law student at Mercer University.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram .  To become a patron, click here .  Sources:  Redhanded Podcast: Episode 217 Stephen McDaniel: The Killer with a Key https://casocriminal.org/en/brutal-cases/la...

(Watch the video version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64300670 ) What an episode to kickoff our Spring 22 season!  We're ecstatic to feature Taylor Ferber, pop culture provocateur and host of the "Cancel Me, Baby" podcast. She discusses her thoughts on #CancelCulture, the #MeToo movement in reference to her interview with Joe Francis (creator of "Girls Gone Wild"), and we do a deep div...

Welcome back, true crime friends to a new episode of True Crime in Academia! This week Mary covers the murders of Hannah Witheridge- a recent college graduate- and David Miller- an engineer- on the island of Koh Tao, Thailand.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram .  Become a patron and unlock exclusive content by clicking here .  This week's sources:  Redhanded Podcast-...

Watch the rest of Andrew's discussion with author J.P. Garland on our Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/63633764 Welcome to our bonus episode with author J.P. Garland who shares Andrew's enthusiasm with Gilded Age Literature and history and discusses why he was drawn to writing historical fiction based in 19th-century New York City! You can find J.P. Garland's books here:  https://...

Welcome back, true crime friends. This week on True Crime in Academia, Mary sits down with the author of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics, Bruce Goldfarb.  Become a patron to see the video recording of this interview.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram . Become a Patron by clicking here . 

True Crime and thriller literature lovers you don't want to miss our incredible interview with author Megan Collins. Her discussion features two distinct parts, the first a conversation about how she defines the thriller genre and why she is so drawn to this genre. The second, a deep dive of her novel The Family Plot which features a discussion about how True Crime takes centerstage with the Light...

Welcome back, true crime friends! This week Mary is joined with Mandee Bengel (of MandeeMadeIt) to discuss the conclusion of the Amanda Knox series. They also get into the role of the media and how it affected the outcome of this case.  Follow True Crime in Academia on Instagram . Become a patron to unlock exclusive content by clicking here .  Sources: Amanda Knox documentary- Netflix

Join the dynamic duo of Andrews, Andrew Rimby and our featured guest, Andrew Kaplan the director and producer of the recent Walt Whitman documentary, In Search of Walt Whitman . They discuss the power of music in his documentary, how he approached Whitman's themes on the body and sex, and why it's so important to visit places that the author experienced.  Watch the video version of this inter...