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Our discussion “Killing Us Slowly,” about how industrial pollution has harmed our health and the natural world, features two phenomenal authors who were recently nominated for the Edgar Award for best nonfiction crime book. Mariah Blake’s They Poisoned the World tells the infuriating story of how “forever chemicals” have made their way into everything from drinking water to children’s clothing, despite the known health risks. Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the Laura Ingalls Wilder biography Prairie Fires, takes a sharp turn from pioneers to psychopaths in Murderland, a multilayered history of the spate of serial killings that took place in the United States in the 1970s and ’80s, and possible links to toxic waste sites. Blake and Fraser will be joined onstage by journalist Laura Paskus, author of At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate and host of the television series Our Land, which ran on New Mexico PBS from 2017 to 2025. Though both “One Story, Many Takes” and “Killing Us Slowly” are currently at capacity, we encourage you to take advantage of our waitlist. The Festival is still months away and seats often open up. To join the waitlist and purchase tickets for other sessions, please click here. As ever, thanks so much for supporting the Festival. We couldn’t do it without you!
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