Archives de catégorie : Nonfiction

A FALSE REPORT de T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth

A FALSE REPORT
A True Story of Rape in America
by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
Crown, February 2018

On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story: details of the crime didn’t seem plausible and her foster mother thought she sounded as though she were reciting a Law & Order episode. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. Confronted with inconsistencies in her story and the doubts of others, Marie broke down and said her story was a lie—a bid for attention. Police charged Marie with false reporting. One of Marie’s best friends created a web page branding her a liar.
More than two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to investigate a case of sexual assault. Describing the crime to her husband that night—the attacker’s calm and practiced demeanor, which led the victim to surmise “he’s done this before”—Galbraith learned that the case bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town. She joined forces with the detective on that case, Edna Hendershot, and the two soon realized they were dealing with a serial rapist: a man who photographed his victims, threatening to release the images online, and whose calculated steps to erase all physical evidence suggested he might be a soldier or a cop. Through meticulous police work the detectives would eventually connect the rapist to other attacks in Colorado—and beyond.
Based on investigative files and extensive interviews with the principals, A FALSE REPORT is a serpentine tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice, unveiling the disturbing reality of how sexual assault is investigated today—and the long history of skepticism toward rape victims.

T. Christian Miller joined ProPublica as a senior reporter in 2008. Before that, he worked for the Los Angeles Times, where he covered politics, wars, and was once kidnapped by leftist guerrillas in Colombia. His first book, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed In Iraq was called one of the “indispensable” books on the war. He teaches data journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

Ken Armstrong, who joined ProPublica in 2017, previously worked at The Marshall Project and Chicago Tribune, where his work helped prompt the Illinois governor to suspend executions and empty death row. His first book, Scoreboard, Baby, with Nick Perry, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for non-fiction. He has been the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

They have both won numerous awards, including a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for their article « An Unbelievable Story of Rape, » written for ProPublica and The Marshall Project.

Black Klansman, le flic noir qui infiltra le Klux Klux Klan

BLACK KLANSMAN est le livre autobiographique de Ron Stallworth, un officier de police afro-américain qui, dans les années 70, a réussi à infiltrer le KKK en se faisant passer pour un suprématiste blanc au téléphone, avec l’aide d’un collègue juif qui se rendait aux réunions à sa place.

Cette incroyable histoire a attiré l’intérêt de Spike Lee qui tournera une adaptation cinématographique avec, à l’affiche, John David Washington, fils de Denzen, Topher Grace, Adam Driver et Jasper Paakkonen ! La production et le scénario seront assurés par Jordan Peele et l’équipe de GET OUT, l’un des plus grands succès au box-office en 2017. Le film est prévu pour l’automne 2018.

D’abord publié en 2014 par un éditeur indépendant, le livre BLACK KLANSMAN sortira dans une édition revisitée chez Flatiron en juin 2018 :

The extraordinary true story of the African American police officer who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the forthcoming major motion picture directed by Spike Lee, and written by Jordan Peele

BLACK KLANSMAN
A Memoir
by Ron Stallworth
Flatiron Books, June 2018 

When Detective Ron Stallworth comes across a classified ad in the local paper looking for new Klan recruits in the Colorado Springs area, he responds with interest, using his real name while posing as a white man. His inquiry sparks a quick and welcoming response from the recruiter, and Ron begins to gain the Klan’s trust. Eager to recruit him, the Klan recruiter asks for a face-to-face meeting, necessitating Stallworth’s partner to play the “white” Ron Stallworth, while Stallworth himself conducts all subsequent phone conversations.
During his seven months of undercover work, Stallworth sabotages cross burnings and attempts by the Klan to further expand their membership, and weaponize a militia. As Stallworth rises higher and higher in the Klan, he realizes just how deeply seeded the hate group is in Colorado government. As the Klan holds a public rally headed by Grandwizard David Duke, Stallworth’s investigation comes to a tragic climax.
Ron Stallworth’s amazing story reads like a crime thriller, and is a searing portrait of a divided America and the extraordinary heroes who dare to fight back.

Ron Stallworth is a 32-year, highly decorated, law enforcement veteran, who worked undercover narcotics, vice, criminal intelligence and organized crime beats in four states. As the first black man accepted into the Colorado Springs police department and its youngest detective ever, Ron became the Jackie Robinson of his time and place, overcoming fierce racial hostility to achieve a long and distinguished career in law enforcement.

Harpercollins publiera un livre sur El Chapo

HUNTING EL CHAPO: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord restera sous embargo jusqu’à sa sortie en  octobre 2017 aux États-Unis et simultanément au Royaume-Uni, dans les pays hispanophones, aux Pays-Bas et en Pologne.

Les auteurs sont le journaliste Douglas Century et Cole Merrel, ancien agent de la DEA qui a contribué à la capture du baron mexicain de la drogue et qui vit aujourd’hui dans un endroit tenu secret, par peur de représailles.

 

DRAWING BLOOD de Molly Crabapple, un livre qui fait du bruit aux Etats-Unis

Les mémoires de l’artiste Molly Crabapple, qui couvrent les années 2000 entre le 11 septembre et le mouvement Occupy, ont été publiées le 1er décembre par Harper et font déjà l’unanimité de la presse américaine !

DRAWING BLOOD a reçu une excellente critique dans The Guardian, une autre dans le New York Times, ainsi qu’un bel article dans le New York Times Style Magazine.

An unforgettable memoir of the years between 9/11 and the Occupy movement—in New York City and around the world—by the renowned underground artist and journalist

DRAWING BLOOD
by Molly Crabapple
Harper, December 2015

Art was my dearest friend.

To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom.

In that four-cornered kingdom of paper, I lived as I pleased.

This is the story of a girl and her sketchbook

In language that is fresh, visceral, and deeply moving—and illustrations that are irreverent and gorgeous—here is a memoir that will change the way you think about art, sex, politics, and survival in our times.
From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York’s Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed.
Returning to New York City after 9/11 to study art, she posed nude for sketch artists and sketchy photographers, danced burlesque, and modeled for the world famous Suicide Girls. Frustrated with the academy and the conventional art world, she eventually landed a post as house artist at Simon Hammerstein’s legendary nightclub The Box, the epicenter of decadent Manhattan nightlife before the financial crisis of 2008. There she had a ringside seat for the pitched battle between the bankers of Wall Street and the entertainers who walked among them—a scandalous, drug-fueled circus of mutual exploitation that she captured in her tart and knowing illustrations. Then, after the crash, a wave of protest movements—from student demonstrations in London to Occupy Wall Street in her own backyard—led Molly to turn her talents to a new form of witness journalism, reporting from places such as Guantanamo, Syria, Rikers Island, and the labor camps of Abu Dhabi. Using both words and artwork to shed light on the darker corners of American empire, she has swiftly become one of the most original and galvanizing voices on the cultural stage.

Now, with the same blend of honesty, fierce insight, and indelible imagery that is her signature, Molly offers her own story: an unforgettable memoir of artistic exploration, political awakening, and personal transformation.

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. She is a contributing editor for Vice, and has written for publications including the New York Times, Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.