AViD author Robert Kolker joins us on the DMPL Podcast! We talk about how he came to know the Galvin family, the subject of his newest, critically acclaimed book Hidden Valley Road. Kolker also discusses the challenges of structuring of narrative nonfiction books and reveals which classic novel he just completed and loved. Show Notes Kolker's Books <ul> <li><a href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=hidden+valley+road&te=" data-cke-saved-href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=hidden+valley+road&te="> Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=lost+girls+kolker&te=" data-cke-saved-href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=lost+girls+kolker&te="> Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery</a> (2013)</li> </ul> Books Mentioned by Kolker <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385255.Random_Family">Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc</a></li> <li><a href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=these+truths&te="> These Truths, by Jill Lepore</a></li> <li><a href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=war+and+peace&te="> War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy</a></li> <li><a href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=The+Brothers+Karamazov&te="> The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky</a></li> <li><a href= "https://desmoin.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:1036019/one?qu=Mike+Nichols+mark+harris"> Mike Nichols: A Life, by Mark Harris</a></li> </ul> Kolker's Favorite Self-Authored Pieces <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hawaii-millionaire-fight/"> "The World’s Smallest Ukulele," Bloomberg Businessweek, May 12, 2016</a></li> <li><a href="https://nymag.com/news/features/17571/">"Nine Blocks from Home," New York Magazine, July 7, 2006</a></li> </ul>

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