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A Journalist on the Inside Upends Good vs. Evil Criminal Stereotypes

New York Times Book Review

What’s Wrong with True Crime?

What Happens When the True Crime Story Is Over?

The New Republic

Can a Murderer Earn Redemption?

Book excerpt: What Ever Happened to the Preppy Killer? The 1980s Tabloid Sensation Set the Mold for Our True-Crime Obsession

‘True Crime’ From a New Point of View

Book excerpt: An Imprisoned Journalist Asks: Who Has the Right to Tell Convicts’ Stories?

John J. Lennon on Humanity in Prison and the Sensationalism of the True Crime Genre

A Book Tour from Prison

Library Journal

A Guilty Man Is More Interesting with John J. Lennon

He’s a killer and a journalist. How he grapples with the tragedies of true crime

The Deseret News

21 Nonfiction Books Coming This Fall

A prisoner reviewed my book. This is how I’d free him.

Washington Post

Murder, he wrote: How an inmate found his voice through journalism

CBC Radio's The Sunday Magazine

Fellow inmate reveals what notorious ‘Preppy Killer’ Robert Chambers confessed about crime in prison

17 Nonfiction Books We’re Looking Forward to This Fall

New York Times Book Review Podcast

Most Anticipated Books of 2025

True Crime and Punishment: An Exchange

The New York Review of Books

The Right to Be Artful

The New York Review of Books

The freelance writer of Sing Sing

Columbia Journalism Review