Andy Kroll is an investigative journalist who's lived and worked
in Washington since 2010. He spent five years working on A Death on W
Street, his upcoming book about the murder of Seth Rich, the
conspiracy theorists and partisan operatives who exploited that tragedy, and
the Rich family's pursuit of justice against Fox News.
Seth's parents and his brother granted Andy unprecedented access
for the book, sitting for dozens of hours of interviews, sharing private
writings and correspondence, and introducing Andy to Seth's closest friends and
colleagues. The book also includes revelations and new information about the
police investigation, the explosion of the conspiracy theories, and how far up
those theories reached in the federal government during the Trump presidency.
The Rich story began as a personal one for Andy. He and Seth
both moved to DC around the same time, ran in similar social circles, and even
played on the same District Sports soccer team at Cardozo High. Andy went on to
cover Seth's story for Rolling Stone magazine, where he spent four years as DC
bureau chief. What compelled Andy to write a book about it was the realization
that Seth's killing, the lack of answers about who did it, and the howling mob
that filled that void captured something larger about the trajectory of
American life in recent years — and where we might be headed next. As Andy
writes in the book, Seth and his family's story is "a skeleton key to the
past half-decade in America, unlocking so much about how this country ended up
at this strange point in our history."
The story told in A Death on W Street will of course hit close
to home for Bloomingdale residents, and indeed Andy interviewed Mark Mueller
and, yes, the Bloomingdale blog's very own Scott Roberts during his reporting,
to name only a few. Yet it's a story that's both local and global, moving from
the leafy streets of Bloomingdale to Julian Assange's London exile, from the
halls of the Trump White House to the studios of Fox News.
The book comes out on Sept. 6. You can preorder it now. Andy is
planning to do readings in DC this fall as well. He's reachable anytime via www
(dot) andykroll (dot) com.
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