Lise Olsen
Senior Editor and Reporter at The Texas Observer
Author THE SCIENTIST & THE SERIAL KILLER @penguinrandom 4/25| CODE OF SILENCE @BeaconPressbks| Investigative Editor @texasobserver Ex @houstonchron @ire_nicar
Articles
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1 month ago |
texasobserver.org | Lise Olsen
These days, the thrum of traffic and the roar of a bulldozer intrude on conversations at café tables clustered outside the Swedish Hill bakery, an Austin landmark where author Stephen Harrigan and a few writer friends have long gathered to swap ideas. Once Harrigan rode his Trek down the hill to grab a croissant and coffee here for around $1.25; the bill on a recent visit was 10 times higher and the crowded street challenging for cycling.
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2 months ago |
storeybookreviews.com | Lise Olsen
4 paws nonfiction Review Texas True Story THE SCIENTIST AND THE SERIAL KILLER: True Crime / History Publisher: Random House Pages: 464 Publication Date: April 1, 2025 Synopsis The Scientist and the Serial Killer is the gripping, upside-down detective story of a Texas forensic anthropologist named Sharon Derrick who, determined to close the cases of the notorious 1970s Houston-area serial killer Dean Corll, painstakingly deploys the latest science to identify victims who had become known as...
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2 months ago |
tspantx.com | Lise Olsen
Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in her home office. She’d been told that she was among 10 finalists, but she’d forsworn any hope of victory. After all, in the 92 years since Texas first bestowed that honorific, no other Black woman had ever made the cut. She sat stunned at her familiar writing table surrounded by shelves of her favorite books.
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2 months ago |
texasobserver.org | Lise Olsen
Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in her home office. She’d been told that she was among 10 finalists, but she’d forsworn any hope of victory. After all, in the 92 years since Texas first bestowed that honorific, no other Black woman had ever made the cut. She sat stunned at her familiar writing table surrounded by shelves of her favorite books.
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2 months ago |
crimereads.com | Lise Olsen
Sharon Derrick drove an hour north on Interstate 45 through the Houston suburban sprawl and the piney woods of Sam Houston National Forest to a prison in a rural county north of Huntsville. On the way, she found herself tuning her audio system to a 1970s channel on Sirius XM.
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