WRITING IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS
WRITING IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS
ABOUT
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Carolyn Murnick is an award-winning journalist, veteran magazine editor, and the author of the investigative memoir The Hot One, recommended by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, and Elle, and named a Best Book of the Year by Buzzfeed. She is a TEDx speaker and commentator on media outlets including NBC, CBS, NY1, Investigation Discovery, and WNYC, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Interview, and numerous anthologies. She lives in Brooklyn.
THE HOT ONE
A memoir of friendship, sex, and murder
A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor’s quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a “riveting…and thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apart” (Cosmopolitan).
As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who loved spending afternoons exploring the woods. Only when the girls attended different high schools did they begin to grow apart. While Carolyn struggled to fit in, Ashley quickly became a hot girl: popular, extroverted, and sexually precocious. Read More
“Carolyn Murnick's THE HOT ONE is as suspenseful as it is heartfelt and honest — an affecting, revealing investigation into the mysteries at the heart of young friendship.”
—Robert Kolker, bestselling author of LOST GIRLS: An Unsolved American Mystery
WORK WITH CAROLYN
Carolyn Murnick is an award-winning journalist, veteran magazine editor, and the author of the investigative memoir The Hot One, recommended by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, and Elle, and named a Best Book of the Year by Buzzfeed. She is a TEDx speaker and commentator on media outlets including NBC, CBS, NY1, Investigation Discovery, and WNYC, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Interview, and numerous anthologies. She lives in Brooklyn.
