Recent Press & Media
Here’s some recent press about Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation.
Honors:
Colorado Book Award winner for Creative Nonfiction / Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book (June 2023)
Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime / Mystery Writers of America (April 2023)
Slate / The 10 Best Books of 2022, by Laura Miller (December 2022).
Jezebel / The 10 Best Books We Read That Came Out This Year, by Nora Biette-Timmons (December 2022)
Reckon / Best of 2022: 17 books we reckoned with this year (December 21, 2022)
Kirkus / Best Nonfiction Books of the Year (December 2022)
BookPage / Best Nonfiction of 2022 (December 2022)
The New York Times Book Review / Editors’ Choice: Staff Picks From the Book Review (5/15/22)
People Magazine / People Picks (4/4/22)
Modern Mrs. Darcy / What Should I Read Next episode 361: 2022 reads that stood out (December 2022)
The New York Times / 11 New Books We Recommend This Week (5/12/22)
The Week / Author of the Week (4/15/22)
Harper’s Bazaar / The Best Beach Reads of 2022 (4/19/22)
Reviews:
The Washington Post—Books / “Meet the P.I. who helped unlock key testimony in a sexual assault case,” by Marion Winik (3/29/22)
The New York Times Book Review / “She Became a Private Eye. And Investigated Her Past,” by Patrick Hoffman (3/16/22)
Slate / “The Unreliable Narrator,” by Laura Miller (She’s badass) (3/14/22)
Air Mail / “Inside Job,” by Sarah Weinman (3/9/22)
✶BookPage / Starred Review by Alice Cary (3/1/22)
✶Library Journal / Starred Review by Mattie Cook (2/1/22)
✶Kirkus / Starred Review (1/15/22)
✶Publishers Weekly / Starred Review (11/12/21)
Booklist / Review by Kathleen McBroom (1/15/22)
Features and mentions:
Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine / The power of speaking up / Clay Bonnyman Evans (7/5/23)
Daily Camera / Boulder Bookshelf: …Erika Krouse nabs honor for memoir/crime mashup about Title IX (6/21/23)
What Should I Read Next? podcast with Anne Bogel / Ep 361: Anne's Best Books of 2022 (January 2022)
What’s the Story? / Joy Lanzendorfer review (January 2022)
Goodreads / Goodreads Members' Top 72 Hit Books of the Year (So Far) (6/12/22)
LitHub / What Should You Read Next? (3/18/22)
Real Simple / Books page (March 2022 issue)
ELLE / The Best of Spring Nonfiction (March 2022 issue)
CrimeReads / Book excerpt (3/18/22), Best New Crime Nonfiction Feb/March (3/29/22)
CrimeReads / Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2022, by Molly Odintz (1/6/22) and
BookPage / 2022 Preview: Most Anticipated Nonfiction (1/10/22)
The Millions / A Year in Reading: Melissa Febos (12/20/21)
Largehearted Boy / Erika Krouse's Playlist for Her Memoir Tell Me Everything (4/11/22—This site asks authors to compile Spotify “soundtracks” to their books)
Denver Post / American Dude Ranch, Tell Me Everything, and More Books to Read this Month (4/27/22)
Modern Mrs. Darcy Summer Reading Guide (4/23/22)
5280 Magazine / 4 New Local Books to Inspire Your Summer Bucket List (June 2022)
The Sentinel / Required reading: 5 books for a modern summer reading list (6/2/22)
AdviceToWriters / ATW Interviews: Erika Krouse (6/14/22)
Boulder Magazine / BoCo Bookshelf : Summer 2022 (July 2022)
LitHub / Erika Krouse on Why the Subtitle of Her Memoir Should Be How I Became an Asshole
Book Clubs:
Book of the Month Club / March 2022 pick
Literary Masters / Winter 2022-3 pick
Belletrist / STACKED (3/23/22 ) and BRIEF (3/24/22)
Books, Brunches, & Booze book club / April 2022 pick
Print/Online Interviews:
CrimeReads / “Use Yourself,” by Lisa Levy (3/31/22)
LitHub / “Writer Erika Krouse On Her Time As A Private Investigator,” by Molly Odintz (3/25/22)
BookPage / “Erika Krouse, private eye,” by Alice Cary (March 2022)
Westword / “Tell Her Everything: Writer Erika Krouse’s Memoir Tackles Colorado History,” by Teague Bohlen (3/17/22 and 6/11/23)
BOMB Magazine / “Opposing Groupthink without a Template: Erika Krouse Interviewed by Sean Hooks” (3/18/22)
Colorado Sun / “SunLit Interview” (3/21/22)
The Ambassador / “Tell Us Everything” (Spring 2022)
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb / (4/9/22)
The Coachella Review / “TCR Interviews with Erika Krouse, by Kaia Gallagher”
Podcasts and Radio Interviews:
Turn the Page live with Ryan Warner at Colorado Public Radio / Full podcast, or Tell Me Everything segment
LBB Presents Online (3/16/22)
City Cast Denver podcast / “How…Football's Sexual Assault Scandal Set a Precedent for #MeToo” (3/17/22)
Wisconsin Public Radio BETA / “I look familiar. I look ordinary: How Erika Krouse's face launched her career as a private investigator”
Pursuit Magazine / March Webinar: Tell Me Everything. Topic: techniques for interviewing witnesses.
Finding the Magic podcast / S2 E20 with author Erika Krouse of Tell Me Everything
Book Dreams podcast / Ep 117: Tell Me Everything, with Erika Krouse
Boulder Bookstore and KGNU Radio Bookclub Live / Radio Bookclub: Tell Me Everything – The Story of a Private Investigation and Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub: Erika Krouse
North County Public Radio / North Country Bookmarks September ‘22
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