Reading - Dominique Dunne - Another City, Not my Own - about O J Simpson trial - makes me remember what Dunne shared in essay in Marie Arana edited - The Writing Life.
Dunne, early in his career, in Los Angeles, suffered the murder of his daughter by her boyfriend, who walked free after only 2 1/2 years.
In Another City, he goes back for Simpson trial, having previously covered Menendez brothers' trial and also the trial of high society member Claus von Bulow for the murder of his wife Sunny.
Another City is written as fiction--A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, and that is why I picked it up at my local library after my enhanced flu shot today.
That is some of the compensation of living in the most educated county in the USA. This library, within walking distance and the one upstairs of my building have no due date -- I educated myself about plays entirely on books from the library upstairs.
Shakespeare, of course, and also Jean Genet (a former convict's) scariest play about prison life.
The Dominique Dunne book is written as fiction, but with all real names for public characters, even for Dunne's conversations in private with them (semi-private--at dinners and lunches in restaurants and private homes - the rich and powerfuls' homes).
It is a bit like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, or John Barendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which mainly write about dead people.
However, Dunne does a curious thing, he fictionalizes himself, like Salmon Rushdie does in his own memoir Joseph Anton (Rushdie changed names of his security detail, of course, but not the names of his famous literary agent and others).
In - In Another City, suddenly the names from the riveting trial of the nineties come back to us, OJ, Nicole Simpson, Judge Lance Ito, Marcia Clark, etc.
It is all presented as dialogue - amazing - the snippets of info that Dunne picked up.
We know how that first trial ended, but it is still fascinating to read.
Kyi May Kaung
http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com
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