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Carolyn Murnick

Biography

Carolyn Murnick

Carolyn Murnick is an online editor at New York magazine. She received an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Aspen Institute in 2014. Her personal essays have appeared in two anthologies: BEFORE & AFTER: Stories from New York and LOST & FOUND: Stories from New York. She lives in Brooklyn, and THE HOT ONE is her first book.

Carolyn Murnick

Books by Carolyn Murnick

The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
by Carolyn Murnick - Memoir, Nonfiction

As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common. Only when the girls attended different high schools did they begin to grow apart. After high school, Carolyn entered college in New York City and Ashley ended up in Los Angeles, where she quit school to work as a stripper and an escort. The last time Ashley visited New York, Carolyn was shocked by how the two friends had grown apart. One year later, Ashley was stabbed to death in her Hollywood home. The man who may have murdered Ashley --- an alleged serial killer --- now faces trial in Los Angeles. Carolyn Murnick traveled across the country to cover the case and learn more about her magnetic and tragic friend.