Fresh Air, M. Lee Goff and Pagan Kennedy

De: Terry Gross

Narrado por: Terry Gross

Forensic entomologist M. Lee Goff and writer for the Village Voice and The Nation, Pagan Kennedy. Goff is the author of the new book A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes. He examines the insect life that inhabits a decomposing corpse, to understand when a person died and other circumstances of death. Kennedy ("Pagan" is not her real first name) has staked out a niche for herself as a "1970's survivor and devotee." She has written an investigation of that decade, seen through its artifacts and social upheaval, Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970's. In the 70's she says, "we inherited this idea of recycling culture. I wanted to write a nostalgia book about the period when nostalgia began as an industry and everything became like an image of itself." (Broadcast Date: May 17, 2000 and May 4, 1994)Want more Fresh Air?

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