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Stacy Horn is a journalist and author of nonfiction books, including Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th Century New York and The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad. Her last book, described on The Bowery Boys podcast as 'your page-turning horror read for the summer', turned out to be excellent preparation for the horror read she was to write next. Mary Roach has hailed her for 'combining awe-fueled curiosity with topflight reporting skills', while others have described her work as 'immaculately researched' and 'several notches above the typical reporter's insights'. Horn's commentaries have been heard on NPR's All Things Considered, and she lives in New York City.
“In our age of sky-high housing costs and corporate takeovers of neighborhoods, Horn’s book is more than a gripping read—it’s a reminder that every city, neighborhood, and block has a story, one that’s still being written to this day.” —P.E. Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City “Horn (Damnation Island, 2018) presents a thoroughly researched narrative . . . Her investigation uses numerous resources including extensive interviews. Readers will be drawn into the conversational style that places them in a world that illustrates just what happens when money and power fall into the wrong hands.” —Booklist “A badly needed look at a societal problem that goes largely unaddressed while politicians outdo each other with tough-on-crime rhetoric…Horn provides an invaluable roadmap to how, and why, urban “renewal’’ can go tragically wrong.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
