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Casey Cep has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic. She is the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. “I want to meet all of these expectations. I want my book to be a page-turner. I want it to be a beautiful literary object. I want it to sell. I want it to do all of these things. But at the end of the day, I just want to feel like I’ve honored this commitment between writer and reader, and writer and source. And those are sometimes in conflict.” Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @cncep Cep on Longform [00:07] Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Knopf • 2019) [09:51] The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Erik Larson • Vintage • 2004) [10:39] The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (David Grann • Vintage Books • 2010) [14:30] The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Boo