Paper Trails: Murder in Forest Hills with Janet Malcolm
The legendary journalist Janet Malcolm does a rare radio interview.
The legendary journalist Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer and many other books, joins Mark Oppenheimer, Brian Francis Slattery, and Binnie Klein to talk about her new book, Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial.
Malcolm’s new book is about the trial of a Bukharan Jewish mother in the insular ethnic community of Forest Hills, Queens, who was convicted of hiring a hit man to kill her ex-husband. But as ever with Malcolm’s books, what looks open-and-shut ends up being very much open, with no conclusive verdict in sight. In this rare radio interview, Malcolm talks about her reporting process, her writing, and the brand new Metro-North car, part of the new fleet, that she rode in on.
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This is beyond uninformed
How can Malcolm be considered objective when she admits to interjecting herself into the story? Ms. Malcom would benefit greatly from appearing in all courts in New York City to see that Borukhova's appearance is not, in the least alien. Additionally, knowing about the court process would actually help her in her objectivity, had their been any. This was an attempt to get in at the ground floor of a Klaus von Bulow type of situation. Next time get a legal consultant to gave a better grip of the legal process if you are going to interpret what has happened. My understanding of journalism is to write what you know. She never actually covered a trial in the past.
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