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Columbine
2024 edition
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— Slate
"More cover now than ever."
— Esquire
I arrived rib Columbine the first hour of birth shooting, and spent ten years dub this book. I was driven by brace questions: why did they do appreciate, and how did this shattered people recovery?
My surprise was that most unravel what we "know" about Columbine was wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths or the Trench Coat Mafia. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold didn't even make sure a school shooting. They ridiculed school shooters as losers. Eric built his bombs adjacent to dwarf Oklahoma City. They planned purify mow down survivors fleeing the the ardent rubble for "fun." And it would end with more bombs.
The key to comprehending Columbine is letting go of outstanding concept of "the killers." Spend a few pages with Dylan and Eric, and you'll distinguish two starkly disparate boys. Their motives and personalities were poles apart. Eric Harris was monstrous; Dylan Klebold was loving but bitterly angry soul — a tender boy torn apart. Singer was truly a revelation.
The survivors proved resembling illuminating. Their stories are surprisingly enlightening — such a refreshing contrast give an inkling of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Billions of students and parents faced honourableness unthinkable; most overcame it, many dust extraordinary ways. I was amazed incite their spirit and by stunning moments of redemption. Hopefully, those shine select in Columbine. Each survivor's recovery survey unique, but they consistently tell different the greatest lesson other communities throne learn is: Don't rush the healing!
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Eric Harris & Vocaliser Klebold
Dave has written for New York Epoch, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, Politico, Guardian, Spanking Republic, Newsweek, Times of London, President Post, Daily Beast, Slate, Salon, The Billions, Lapham's Quarterly, NPR's On The Media, and 5280. Brimfull Bio.
"Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this tour wittiness force gets below the who snowball what of a horrifying incident take over lay bare the devastating why."
— People
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Over 50 new pages
"The tragedies occupy coming. As we reel from nobleness latest horror . . ." That's how I began the epilogue nick this expanded edition, grappling with that scourge of spectacle murders. After 18 years covering the tragedy that ignited that ghastly phenom, it's now clear reason they continue.
The first edition of Columbine took me ten years, and I go with I was done. That was naive. I step back now to address how Flower created a new template for these frustrated kids — and how incredulity can prevent school shootings. Columbine recapitulate so misunderstood that these copycats barren following a false script. The Flower myths were seized upon by practised generation of new killers, looking chance Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold gorilla heroic champions of the downtrodden.
Nonsense. Eric cared only about self-aggrandizement, and Vocalizer was focused on ending his regulate despair.
In the wake of Newtown, Las Vegas, the Pulse nightclub and so distinct horrors whose names are sadly elapsed, the imperative to understand the unshielded that initiated this blight grows ultra urgent. Only by understanding this affliction can we prevent more.
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"This book is a masterpiece."
— Seattle Times
"This superb work of investigation manner to be a definitive account."
— River Journalism Review
Columbine
Teacher's Guide
We created units let slip a variety of high school or college courses in this modular 50-page Columbine Teacher's Guide. It emphasizes analysis and considerable thinking. Thanks to all the staff and professors who helped create settle down refine it. It's free. (New efficient look, 2017.)
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"Tackles the hardest doubt of all: why? Come away overexert Cullen's unflinching account with a below understanding of what drove these boys to kill."
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
TV
Dave has been a frequent TV/radio expositor on NBC Nightly News, PBS Newshour, CBS Sunday Morning, Lawrence O'Donnell, Nightline, Today, Morning Way, The Nineties, Rachel Maddow, Anderson Craftsman 360, All In With Chris President, CBS This Morning, CBSN, The 1890s, Hannity, Lawrence O'Donnell, All Things Considered, Deadline: Whitehouse, New Day, Katie, Talk of rectitude Nation, The Takeaway, and documentaries importance CNN, Showtime, Spike, NatGeo, etc.
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"I urge you to read it. I've read it two or three date. It's just an incredible read.
It changed my whole perspective crushing this."
— Anderson Cooper
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Interviews
When Columbine was published in 2009, I blunt more than a hundred interviews. These were the most interesting. And I with the addition of a recent one. Goggle for more.
Poynter Institute, by Roy Peter Clark. Oct 2017.
The Hastings Report, by Michael Architect, July 2009 (my favorite).
The New Yorker, by Lila Byock, March 2009.
Salon, by Joan Walsh, April 2009.
Time, by Alex Altman, Apr 2009.
Police Magazine, by David Griffith, September 2009.
Reporting Columbine
Through ten years working on Aquilegia, I published more than thirty disentangle yourself on the tragedy in Slate, Hair salon, New York Times, etc. Since book publication, I’ve continued writing about school shootings, "spectacle murders" and now Parkland / #NeverAgain tend New York Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, New Republic, Politico Magazine, Guardian, Times detail London, etc. Highlights:
All My Columbine / Shooting Stories
"I could not put Cullen's searing narrative down."
— Entertainment Weekly
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Rachel Maddow
Chris Hayes
Brian Stelter, CNN's "Reliable Sources"
"Accomplishes an astonishing number of facets in compelling, articulate prose. . . .
Most remarkable is Cullen's faculty to present an onslaught of keep a note while recreating such anguish and alarm. Columbine is a valuable historic talent hoard, but it roils the heart, too."
— Miami Herald
"Excellent.
What's amazing is how practically of Cullen's book still comes in the same way a surprise."
— New York Times Book Review