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It was cool to wake up and see Columbine on Esquire's list of The 25 Best True Crime Books Every Person Should Read. Sadly, they had to...

What an exciting day. My Korean translation of Columbine just arrived. It looks beautiful. I love the tasteful layout inside and the elegant title pages for each section as well. I've gotten such a great response from Korean-American readers, and happy Koreans can finally read it in their native language. Of course we included all the updates in the expanded American edition, including the afterward, epilogue, school diagram and journal scans from Eric Harris and Dylan K

Josh Glancy did a great job in the Times of London examining why America keeps facing these mass murders. He quoted me extensively, and...

A Korean translation of Columbine was released this fall, and apparently it's drawing lots of positive coverage in Korea. (I have to take...

The Poynter Institute is the leading journalistic think tank. After the Las Vegas shooting, a Poynter professor asked me to do an in-depth Q&A for their site about covering trauma, Columbine , and reporting in general. They titled it: "After Las Vegas shooting, a Columbine expert offers heartfelt advice about the why of it all." The professor opened with a really generous intro: If I made a list of books that all journalists should read, Columbine by Dave Cullen would be n

Fort Hood, Aurora, Orlando, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and now Las Vegas: after yet another record-breaking shooting in the United States, a

Jeremy Scahill interviewed me for this week’s “Intercepted” podcast at The Intercept titled GUNS BEFORE COUNTRY. I lay out the 3 main...

I was so glad to hear Criminology professor James Alan Fox ‏on CNN beseeching the networks to stop score-keeping spectacle murderers....

The Las Vegas shooter (I won't say his name) was 64, which is an outlier. Last time I updated in 2015, only 2 of the 70 shooters were...

We had two horrible shootings yesterday. I can't believe there are people who believe that's a good solution — especially to a political...