Crabb and Sales desperately hunt for a quiet room to record this week's podcast and end up in a breast-feeding room. They talk about what makes a great true-crime book and the challenges of writing someone's real-life story.

 • Chef directed by Jon Favreau
 • The Trip starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon
 • Fame Opening Titles via YouTube
 • Women Having a Terrible Time at Parties in Western Art History via The Toast
 • Five Drops of Blood - Murder in the Cat Protection Society by Paul Wilson and Dianne McInnes
 • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
 • The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
 • This House of Grief by Helen Garner
 • Orchid Fever by Susan Orlean from the New Yorker archives
 • The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
 • Damages starring Glenn Close and Rose Byrne
 • Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
 • Photographer Russell James's long battle to help his mentally ill and drug-addicted daughter by Anthony Deceglie
 • Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
 • Useful by Deborah Oswald
 • One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
 • The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten

Crabb and Sales desperately hunt for a quiet room to record this week's podcast and end up in a breast-feeding room. They talk about what makes a great true-crime book and the challenges of writing someone's real-life story. • Chef directed by Jon Favreau • The Trip starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon • Fame Opening Titles via YouTube • Women Having a Terrible Time at Parties in Western Art History via The Toast • Five Drops of Blood - Murder in the Cat Protection Society by Paul Wilson and Dianne McInnes • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote • The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer • This House of Grief by Helen Garner • Orchid Fever by Susan Orlean from the New Yorker archives • The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean • Damages starring Glenn Close and Rose Byrne • Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry • Photographer Russell James's long battle to help his mentally ill and drug-addicted daughter by Anthony Deceglie • Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Useful by Deborah Oswald • One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville • The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten

A peripatetic podcast in which Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb discuss what they're reading, watching, cooking, listening to or irrationally exhilarated by.

Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales have a conversation

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