ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SO MANY PEOPLE helped me along the way in the many years it took for this book to be completed. Thanks to my agent Larry Weissman and his wife, Sascha Alper, for their support and enthusiasm at the earliest stages. Deepest gratitude to my first editor Amber Qureshi at the late, great Free Press for her emotional investment, brilliance, and friendship, and to the dedicated editors who followed her: Alessandra Bastagli, Sarah Knight, and finally Karyn Marcus and the team at Simon & Schuster.
Thanks to my colleagues at New York, past and present, for editorial guidance, expert advice, and kind words at crucial moments, especially Jared Hohlt and Jada Yuan. Also Christopher Bonanos, Jebediah Reed, Kelly Maloni, Adam Pasick, Adam Martin, Rose Palazzolo, Jessica Pressler, Benjamin Wallace, Geoffrey Gray, Logan Hill, Mark Graham, Emily Nussbaum, Robert Kolker, Megan Creydt, Alyssa Shelasky, Molly Langmuir, Elizabeth Cline, and my researcher Jordan Larson.
Thanks to my friends, readers, and writing group members: Sara Cardace, Emily Kramer, Caryne Hayes, Betony Toht, Joanna Rakoff, Allison Powell, Amy Rosenberg, Erin Hersey, Eli Marias, Lauren Feighan, Elizabeth Wildman, Amanda Patten, Michael Rothman, Jen Doll, Mary Kate Flannery, Mary Traina, Sarah Dohrmann, Glynnis MacNicol, Kate McKean, Molly Prentiss, Nell Bryden, Rachel Corbett; and especially to my incredibly insightful and supportive boyfriend, Thomas MacMillan.
Thanks to my LA friends, old and new, for hosting, supporting, and sharing your city with me on my numerous trips out west, especially Gianna Bourke and Charity Bustamante. Also Emily Foster, Matthew Lurie, Levi MacDougall, Joy Roberts, and Christopher Duran. Thanks to journalists Doug Longhini, Christine Pelisek, and Betsy A. Ross for sharing your expertise about the Gargiulo case. Thanks to Bernardsville friends and teachers for your stories and for helping to keep Ashley’s memory alive: Rob Auten, Sarah Weaver Swolfs, and Alice Vuocolo. And thanks to my parents, for everything.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CAROLYN MURNICK is an online editor at New York. She received an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Aspen Institute in 2014. Her personal essays have been included in Before and After: Stories from New York and Lost and Found: Stories from New York. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Murnick, Carolyn, author.
Title: The hot one : a memoir of friendship, sex, and murder / Carolyn Murnick.
Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016038744| ISBN 9781451625813 (hbk) | ISBN 9781451625820 (trade pbk) | ISBN 9781451625837 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Murder—California—Los Angeles—Investigation—Case studies. | Murder—California—Los Angeles—Case studies.
Classification: LCC HV6534.L7 M87 2017 | DDC 364.152/3092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038744
ISBN 978-1-4516-2581-3
ISBN 978-1-4516-2583-7 (ebook)
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