Scott Turow

And he'd try to get out at 5:00 so he could go back to the subway.

Um, I, I wanna read to you, uh, Scott Turow had this, uh, rave in The New York Times, but he criticizes you in, in one way, and I- I'm just curious to hear your response to it.

Although, you know, responding to reviews, I don't know if it's the best use of all of our time as writers.

But it says, "This is an exhaustively reported book by a ferociously talented writer." I would just cut that part.

And congratulations on this book and all the reviews that you're getting.

I saw Scott Turow, the famous prosecutor and author, wrote a really nice review about it in the New York Times.

And I was just going through this and it says this book, often brilliant, occasionally frustrating, is an extraordinarily wide ranging investigation of the circumstances underlying a lethal incident that occurred on a northbound F train on May 1st, 2023.

The death of Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man after a fellow passenger put him in a chokehold in an apparent attempt to subdue him when he began screaming.

And eventually he ended up in active psychiatric distress on an uptown F train and ended up dead on the subway floor.

And how does Daniel Penny get to this point?

You know, Daniel Penny, again, and this was sort of an interesting that, you know, when Scott Turow, the reviewer, you know, who it was the most generous review ever.

And then at the end, there was a critical note around, you know, him feeling that I kind of humanized Jordan Neely too much.

Hopefully people will enjoy hearing from these authors and hopefully they'll want to read more.

Now, from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., writer, attorney, and best-selling author Scott Turow, a master of the legal thriller.

Mr. Turow has written over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, including Presumed Guilty, a follow-up to his blockbuster Presumed Innocent.

His work has been translated into over 40 languages and has sold more than 30 million copies.

Beginning now, a conversation with best-selling author Scott Turow.

Well, I'm honored to be in conversation today with Scott Turow.

We are coming to you from the Library of Congress, the Madison Building, which is the third of the major buildings in Washington, D.C. that was built for the Library of Congress.

James Madison is right behind us.

He said it was those ones, the not so great ones, that kept him going.

All these run-on sentences, and this book got published? Then, in August of 1987, a smash hit legal thriller shot to the top of the bestseller list: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow.

A lawyer by trade, Turow's first work of fiction.

Presumed Innocent was intimidatingly good, a gripping courtroom drama told by an unreliable narrator, that took the world by storm.

Safeguard Veterans, any door, the right support.

That pulls us into Scott Turow's 1987 masterpiece, Presumed Innocent.

Now, this is where the genre matures into something incredibly dark and introspective.

Yeah, it's so heavy.

Scott Turow gives us Rusty Sabich, and Rusty is a seasoned, hardened prosecutor.

He's a lifer.

Yes.

You may know Kersaya, maybe you don't, but you know her books.

For example, she is the editor who bought the number one New York Times phenomenon, The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, and her authors include superstars such as David Baldacci, Scott Turow, and Lauren Kate, among others.

Kersaya is looking for books that make her feel all the feels, and you know, if there's a little bit of magic, that's even better.

Before joining GCP, she worked at Harper Collins and Penguin Random House, and we are so honored and excited to have her.

Ooh.

Worked with Dan Webb, worked with Scott Turow, prosecuted the largest healthcare fraud case in the United States, and then went on to become a master s- uh, criminal defense attorney, okay? And corporate defense attorney.

So he probably is, like, 1,000 an hour at this point.

Back then it was 200 an hour.

Oh, God, no end, really.

I've never forgotten the plot twist at the end of Presumed Innocent, the Scott Turow legal thriller.

which I thought was brilliant.

I've always admired the creation of the character of George Smiley.