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Best memoires3/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Circumstances-not least of all a roadblock erected by O’Hara’s sister, Maureen-had killed the project. Her father said they were interviews he had conducted with O’Hara’s friends because he’d intended to write a biography of the poet. One day in 2018, Calhoun was searching for something in the basement storage of her parents’ apartment building when she found dozens of loose cassette tapes from the 1970s, labeled with the names of famous artists like Willem de Kooning, Edward Gorey and Larry Rivers. One piece of common ground that Calhoun and her father shared, however, was a love of the work of Frank O’Hara, the legendary New York School poet who died in a freak accident in 1966. Young Calhoun, eager and precocious, craved nothing more than the approbation of her father, a complicated, emotionally distant man famously given to saying the wrong thing-a trait from which his daughter was never spared. The daughter of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, Calhoun grew up at the vortex of New York City’s East Village bohemia, a world she wrote about in the history St. Additionally, Holes’ honesty about how police use macabre jokes and gallows humor to cope with their difficult jobs may disturb some readers.īut for readers who would like to see a different side of the true crime genre-the lifelong impact that catching twisted individuals has on one man- Unmasked is a must-read.Įvery childhood is unique, but Ada Calhoun’s, as portrayed in her fearless new memoir, Also a Poet, stands out for its blend of adolescent freedom and paternal neglect. Unmasked is not for squeamish readers investigations into many, many murders and rapes are described in detail. ![]() His book looks at what staring into that darkness does to a husband and father. Holes’ blessing and curse was being gifted at a career that required him to think like a murderer, torturer, kidnapper or rapist. Unmasked is more about Holes’ mental health journey than other “how I caught the killer” tales in the true crime genre (although, of course, there is some of that, too). Holes’ memoir, co-written with journalist Robin Gaby Fisher, unpacks one man’s bruised brain. Paul Holes, the cold case investigator who found the Golden State Killer, reveals the personal toll of his onerous career. Holes spent his entire career in the county, with a particular focus on cold cases, and he devoted 24 years to investigating and ultimately finding the Golden State Killer. The region is where Laci Peterson was murdered, where Jaycee Dugard was held in captivity and where the Golden State Killer terrorized communities for decades. The best explanation readers might get is in Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes, a retired detective from Contra Costa County in California. But what about the people who choose to interact with darkness as part of their livelihoods? What makes someone say, “Serial killers-I want to hunt them down for a living”? Why are some people drawn to darkness? It’s understandable why some people seek it out as entertainment to some, grisly murder is no more real than a sweet romance or an exciting adventure. ![]()
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