And here’s one of the first reviews of the film:

www.theguardian.com/film/lost-city-of-z-review

“A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West. As in all his work, David Grann digs deep, and this powerful story reveals the unimaginable scale of these shocking murders almost a hundred years ago.”

– John Grisham

“Killers of the Flower Moon is a magnificent book—a riveting true story of greed, serial murder, and racial injustice that exposes an extremely disturbing episode of American History. David Grann is a terrific journalist, and this is maybe the best thing he’s ever written.”

– Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air and Missoula

“Killers of the Flower Moon brings shattering resolve to a story that resonates now. As Native Americans fighting to protect resources on the remnants of our lands, we confront the same paternalism, hypocrisy, and greed that destroyed Osage lives and culture in the early 1920’s. David Grann has a razor keen instinct for suspense. He shapes outrage into a principled steady insistence that voice be given to the victims and their descendants. He creates deeply human portraits of every character in this drama—the evil, the just, the innocent, the doomed. Through meticulous detective work, Grann rescues unbearable truth. As with all of his books, this is a mesmerizing read.”

— Louise Erdrich, author of LaRose and The Round House

“Quite simply, this is a remarkable book, by a remarkable author—an exhumation of a shockingly brutal series of historical murders, that I for one knew nothing about. Utterly original; completely compelling.”

—Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake and Devil in the White City

“If Killers of the Flower Moon were a novel, one would marvel at David Grann’s skill in constructing such a taut, driving narrative with so many stunning plot twists. But it is a true story, based on years of meticulous reporting, making the book both a fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil.”

–Kate Atkinson, author of A God in Ruins and Life After Life

“Loyal readers of David Grann’s books have come to expect jaw-dropping set-ups and brilliantly crafted narratives. Both are on full, dazzling display here. There is an unexpected bonus in the book’s final section, when Grann puts on his deer-stalking hat and proceeds to solve several 85-year-old, unsolved crimes.”

– S.C Gwynne, author of Rebel Yell and Empire of the Summer Moon

And here’s the first review of the book–from Publishers Weekly

“Grann burnishes his reputation as a brilliant storyteller in this gripping true-crime narrative.”

– Starred Review in Publishers Weekly

From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.

Pre-order at: Your Independent Bookstore, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.com

The Lost City of Z film will close this year’s New York Film Festival, Saturday, October 15th.

James Gray’s emotionally and visually resplendent epic tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett (a remarkable Charlie Hunnam), the British military-man-turned-explorer whose search for a lost city deep in the Amazon grows into an increasingly feverish, decades-long magnificent obsession that takes a toll on his reputation, his home life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and children, and his very existence. Gray and cinematographer Darius Khondji cast quite a spell, exquisitely pitched between rapture and dizzying terror. Also starring Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, The Lost City of Z represents a form of epic storytelling that has all but vanished from the landscape of modern cinema, and a rare level of artistry. An Amazon Studios/Bleecker Street release.

New York Film Festival

Also see the coverage in Deadline.

James Gray has written and directed six films, including “The Yards,” “We Own the Night,” “Two Lovers,” and “The Immigrant,” all of which premièred in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. His first film, “Little Odessa,” won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. His latest film, “The Lost City of Z,” an adaptation of David Grann’s book about a lost civilization in Brazil, will have its world première on the closing night of this year’s New York Film Festival.

Read about the event at the New York Film Festival Website.

Jonah Weiner discusses my work at Slate.

“Grann, a New Yorker staff writer since 2003, has written that he’s drawn to people ‘who get some germ of an idea in their heads that metastasizes until it consumes them,’ and that through journalism he has come to recognize his own obsessive tendencies: ‘When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don’t change my clothes as often as I should.’”

Read the rest at slate.com

My talk on my “moment of madness in the Amazon” at Chautauqua Institution is online at Fora.tv, available with a subscription or day pass.

I was on the Charlie Rose show last night to talk about The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, in particular my piece on Cameron Todd Willingham and my piece “Mysterious Circumstances.” Here’s a link: Charlie Rose

I don’t get to take too much time from writing for The New Yorker, but I recently blogged at the Powell’s blog, which was a lot of fun, and this week I’m blogging The New Yorker’s book blog, “The Book Bench.” Here’s my first post: “David Grann Takes the Bench.”

I was on CBS’s Sunday Morning on Sunday the 21st. Here’s an excerpt from the conversation:

“There was, by the end, a maniacal quality to him,” said Grann. “And I think with obsession, there are kind of two qualities about it: there is the fruits of obsession, which can lead to wonderful discoveries - Fawcett made many interesting discoveries - but there could also be a lethal quality to obsession, and in this case, there really was.”

And you can read the rest at CBS