Podcast review: What Page Are You On? Contemporary True Crime
The second episode of What Page Are You On? was on contemporary true crime – or the darkness of the human spirit, as they put it – and started with a warning. Will you get upset by stories of rape, abuse and murder? If you think you will, don’t listen. I thought it was a nice touch. My review is not going to include any gruesome details though so, if you are a little bit curious, keep on reading! Bethany and Alice , the hosts of this podcast, ask big questions – How far back in someone’s life can you trace evil? Can you do anything to stop it? – and proceed to discuss the merits and the faults of books they have read, like Alexandria Marzano-Lenevich’s The Fact of a Body and Emmanuel Carrère’s The Adversary . Apart from finding their observations interesting, what I enjoy most of this podcast in general is the synergy between the two women. You can tell they’re friends and – most of all – you can tell that they’re passionate about books! They might not get to answer those in...