Who killed 20-year-old Hazel Drew and left her bludgeoned corpse in an Upstate New York pond in 1908? In this taut true crime pa...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been to a writing convention. I myself had never been to one until 2021, in preparation for the publication of Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery Inspired Twin Peaks, a true crime book I coauthored with M

The 1908 murder of Hazel Drew in upstate NY has haunted people for over a century, including the authors of a new book about the crime and “Twin Peaks” co-creator Mark Frost.

SCHENECTADY — David Bushman makes it clear throughout the more than 200 pages in his new book, “Forget It, Jake, It’s Schenectady,” that while former Police Chief Greg Kaczmarek was a natural in the art of conversation, he was not the most…

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The true, local story and historical police scandal behind the 2012 movie ‘A Place Beyond the Pines’ is being revisited in a new book due out this June. From 1999 to 2000, Schenectady was rocked by a police scandal that resulted…

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews Co-authors David Bushman and Mark Givens talk about their book and how to use research as a tool. Our 2022 book, Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks,revisits the unsolved 1908…

David Bushman, a longtime TV curator at the Paley Center for Media, is the author of Conversations with Mark Frost: “Twin Peaks,” “Hill Street Blues,” and the Education of a Writer and coauthor of Twin Peaks FAQ and Buffy the Vampire Slayer FAQ. He…

On April 8, 1990, with the opening episode of Twin Peaks, David Lynch and Mark Frost catapulted into television history. A 2017 article in The Atlantic calls the pilot “an event that defies replication,” a show that sparked the audience’s imagination…

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he following is excerpted from Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks, including the foreword by Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost and chapter one by David Bushman & Mark T. Givens. FOREWORD By Mark Frost What’s the…

More than 100 years later, people are still asking: Whodunnit? Who murdered 20-year old Hazel Drew? Blonde, buxom and blue-eyed, her body was found face down — her skull crushed — in Teal’s Pond on July 7, 1908, in a heavily wooded remote section of…

David Bushman and Mark T. Givens. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2643-7 Who killed 20-year-old Hazel Drew and left her bludgeoned corpse in an Upstate New York pond in 1908? In this taut true crime page-turner, Bushman (Conversations…

In Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks (Thomas & Mercer, Jan.), Bushman and Deer Meadow Radio podcaster Givens investigate a century-old homicide. What brought you two together on this book? Givens: Reading…

Follow May 18, 2017 · 4 min read No, but really. It’s hard. By David Bushman and Arthur Smith Twenty-six years after its 1991 cancellation by ABC, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks — one of the most storied shows in television history — returns…

Follow Jan 9, 2020 · 23 min read The actors speak. In part one of our salute to South of Nowhere, the groundbreaking teen drama that aired on The N (later TeenNick) from 2005 to 2008, we talk to Tom Lynch, who created the show. Here we share…

Critics, scholars, and other creative types ponder the 20th anniversary of the great Buffy spinoff. It was twenty years ago that the brooding vampire with a soul, scared off by Buffy’s mom, hightailed it out of Sunnydale and set up shop as a gumshoe…

Critics, scholars, and other creative types ponder the 20th anniversary of the great Buffy spinoff. It was twenty years ago that the brooding vampire with a soul, scared off by Buffy’s mom, hightailed it out of Sunnydale and set up shop as a gumshoe…

Follow Oct 1, 2019 · 17 min read Critics, scholars, and other creative types ponder the 20th anniversary of the great Buffy spinoff. It was twenty years ago that the brooding vampire with a soul, scared off by Buffy’s mom, hightailed it out of…

Follow Jan 7, 2020 · 21 min read For creator Tom Lynch, the groundbreaking teen drama was one from the heart. Never sure if it’s a compliment or an insult to refer to a show as hugely underappreciated, but either way I’m calling South of Nowhere…

Follow Nov 20, 2019 · 11 min read What’s your favorite NY-set or -shot show? Once upon a time, New York was the center of TV production, until the latter half of the fifties, when those meddlesome film studios got involved and production moved west.…