The Outsider with Tananarive Due
Episode 275, May 21, 08:00 AM
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Celebrated novelist and writer Tananarive Due joins us to discuss Stephen King's The Outsider and the quite good HBO mini-series adaptation starring Jason Bateman, Cynthia Erivo, and Ben Mendelsohn. She also dives deep into her background with King, playing with in the Rock Bottom Remainders, and the deep, personal family trauma that went into her novel, The Reformatory.
The Outsider is the book where King's current obsession, Holly Gibney, takes a full step to the forefront as she helps investigate a particularly interesting case where a man arrested for the brutal killing of a child has proof that he wasn't anywhere near the scene of the crime despite a mountain of eye-witness, surveillance, and DNA evidence to the contrary. Is there something deeper at play here? Perhaps something supernatural?