About the Host

Sarah behind the counter of a closed down Orange Julius at the Lloyd Center Mall

Sarah

Sarah Marshall grew up in Portland and Honolulu. She is a writer, podcaster, and media critic focused on getting to the bottom of why we believe, and in turn, define ourselves by popular narrative and myth. Her writing on maligned women and alleged monsters has appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, BuzzFeed, the Baffler and elsewhere.

• The End of Evil (on Ted Bundy)
• Remote Control (the Tonya Harding essay that is how Mike and Sarah met)
• Living Things (on Jeffrey Dahmer)
• The Magic Kingdom: The dark side of the Disney dream
• The Afterlife of “Newsies”
• The Incredible True Story Of How “Titanic” Got Made
• How Anna Nicole Smith Became America’s Punchline
• Why America Will Never Stop Trying To Solve JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder
• The Afterlife of O.J. Simpson
• “Making a Murderer” and the New True Crime
• ‘Twin Peaks’ and the Origin of the Dead Woman TV Trope