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Monsters, Monsters Everywhere

The cancellation of Chris Matthews and the question of accountability

Mar 6, 2020

Monsters, Monsters Everywhere

Mar 6, 2020

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The Shiv in the Hand of Kindness

After the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, a story of compassion in the age of Twitter mobs

Feb 9, 2020

The Shiv in the Hand of Kindness

Feb 9, 2020

Nancy Rommelmann

The Tyranny of My Roots

Ty says the stains in our bathroom sink remind him of the ones in his kindergarten classroom.

Oct 2, 2019

The Tyranny of My Roots

Oct 2, 2019

Nancy Rommelmann

What happens when you find out the mother you never met has thrown siblings you didn’t know you…

THE LIGHTENING

Feb 21, 2019

What happens when you find out the mother you never met has thrown siblings you didn’t know you…

Feb 21, 2019

Nancy Rommelmann

Atonement for a Murdered Child

I was at the kitchen counter when it occurred to me that I might soon be hated.

Aug 10, 2018

Atonement for a Murdered Child

Aug 10, 2018

Nancy Rommelmann

Bite and Smile

Back in 1990, after I’d had a baby and before I’d given up illusions of being an actress, I accepted my then-neighbor’s offer of commercial…

Jun 25, 2017

Bite and Smile

Jun 25, 2017

Nancy Rommelmann

The Pathos of Failing

A friend and I once played a game around the pool at her apartment in Los Feliz, a game that we called How the Celebrity Died Badly. It…

Jun 23, 2017

The Pathos of Failing

Jun 23, 2017

Nancy Rommelmann

You Hear the Splash, then the Screams

On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove her two young children — Trinity, age seven, and Eldon, four — to the Sellwood Bridge in…

May 18, 2017

You Hear the Splash, then the Screams

May 18, 2017

Nancy Rommelmann

JT LeRoy, Laura Albert and the Story that Keeps on Giving

In the wake of two documentaries about Laura Albert/JT LeRoy — Marjorie Sturm’s The Cult of JT LeRoy (2014) and Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author…

Feb 12, 2016

JT LeRoy, Laura Albert and the Story that Keeps on Giving

Feb 12, 2016

Nancy Rommelmann

Christopher Hitchens, Panama, and the Dead and Almost-Dead Children

The following is adapted from To the Bridge (Little A, 2018), my upcoming nonfiction book about Amanda Stott-Smith, who threw her two…

Jan 27, 2016

Christopher Hitchens, Panama, and the Dead and Almost-Dead Children

Jan 27, 2016

Nancy Rommelmann

Nancy Rommelmann

Journalist (LA Weekly, NYT, WSJ, Reason). Author of TO THE BRIDGE, A TRUE STORY OF MOTHERHOOD AND MURDER. More at nancyromm.com

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