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Tal McThenia

Tal McThenia
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Tal McThenia

Tal McThenia is a freelance writer who reported and wrote The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar, a one-hour radio documentary for the acclaimed public radio series This American Life. He has received residencies at the ShenanArt’s Playwrights’ Workshop and the MacDowell Colony. He lives in New York.

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A Case for Solomon will be released on August 13, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 17, 2013
Excerpt:
Foreword from A Case for Solomon
Mar 31, 2013
A Case for Solomon will be released on August 14, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 14, 2012
A Case for Solomon is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 14, 2012
A Case for Solomon will be released on August 14, 2012 in eBook
Aug 14, 2012
A Case for Solomon is now available in eBook
Aug 14, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from A Case for Solomon
Aug 04, 2012

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NOLA Live, December 24, 2012
...A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation By Margaret Dunbar Cutright and Tal McThenia Free Press, $26.99 This deft account of a 1920s Louisiana child kidnapping case, traces the victim’s disappearance and rescue, and...
Chicago Tribune, November 12, 2012
...and how he made his own truth, despite the doubts about the reality of his childhood," says Tal McThenia, co-author of "A Case for Solomon." "We all make our own truths in spite of, or maybe because of, the horrible morass of doubt around us at all...
Time Out Chicago, September 25, 2012
...to being a literary center for Chicago.” City Lit Books hosts a reading with Margaret Dunbar Cutright and Tal McThenia on Saturday 29...
Erie Times-News, September 23, 2012
...out its skeletons. I was betraying, and dividing, my own family." From the outset, she and co-author Tal McThenia telegraph the conclusion of this nonfiction legal thriller. Even so, the story is so fraught with, as McThenia puts it, "incredulous...
Advertiser Democrat, September 22, 2012
...Real Success," Gerald Chertavian; "A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That haunted a Nation," Tal McThenia; "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the ages of Colorblindness," Michelle Alexander; "Born to Rise: a Story of Children and...
Oakland Press, September 19, 2012
...“A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping that Haunted a Nation” (Free Press), by Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright In the foreword of “A Case for Solomon,” Margaret Dunbar Cutright declares that in choosing to share this...
MySanAntonio, September 18, 2012
..."A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping that Haunted a Nation" (Free Press), by Tal McThenia and In the foreword of "A Case for Solomon," declares that in choosing to share this story, "I had hurled open the family closet and was yanking out...
NOLA Live, December 24, 2012
...A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation By Margaret Dunbar Cutright and Tal McThenia Free Press, $26.99 This deft account of a 1920s Louisiana child kidnapping case, traces the victim’s disappearance and rescue, and...
Individual.com, November 12, 2012
...and how he made his own truth, despite the doubts about the reality of his childhood," says Tal McThenia, co-author of "A Case for Solomon." "We all make our own truths in spite of, or maybe because of, the horrible morass of doubt around us at all...
Chicago Tribune, November 12, 2012
...and how he made his own truth, despite the doubts about the reality of his childhood," says Tal McThenia, co-author of "A Case for Solomon." "We all make our own truths in spite of, or maybe because of, the horrible morass of doubt around us at all...
Waterville Morning Sentinel, September 27, 2012
...A CASE FOR SOLOMON: BOBBY DUNBAR AND THE KIDNAPPING THAT HAUNTED A NATION By Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright Free Press In the foreword of "A Case for Solomon," Margaret Dunbar Cutright declares that in choosing to share this story, "I...
Time Out Chicago, September 25, 2012
...to being a literary center for Chicago.” City Lit Books hosts a reading with Margaret Dunbar Cutright and Tal McThenia on Saturday 29...
Hattiesburg American, September 23, 2012
..."A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping that Haunted a Nation" (Free Press), by Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright In the foreword of "A Case for Solomon," Margaret Dunbar Cutright declares that in choosing to share this story, "I...
Texarkana Gazette, September 23, 2012
...“A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping that Haunted a Nation” (Free Press), by Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright...