(Durst will stand trial for the December 2000 homicide of Susan Berman next year. But the genre wields outsize cultural sway far beyond publishing, especially since the success of 2014’s “Serial” podcast-about the highly contested homicide conviction of Adnan Syed in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore County, Maryland-and HBO’s “The Jinx,” the 2015 docuseries about real estate heir Robert Durst and several homicides he is suspected of having committed. None of the Big Five book publishers bothers with a dedicated imprint. True crime is, relatively speaking, small. And the true crime genre is very, very white. Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is Black. ” And yet it is, in one profound way, extremely unusual. It’s a great story, squarely in the vein of other cold case classics, including Pamela Colloff’s “ Unholy Act ,” Matthew McGough’s “ The Lazarus File ,” and Robert Kolker’s “ A Serial Killer in Common. The July feature has the hallmarks of classic true crime: the ambitious investigator, the zealous prosecutor, the family that would not let the case be forgotten. Even beyond the subject matter -a long-unsolved lynching of a Black man in Georgia- Wesley Lowery’s recent story in GQ was jarring.
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