Year: 2021

The Spiral of the Brentwood Gothic.

  Nicole Brown and O.J. Simpson met in June 1977, when she was waitressing at a nightclub called the Daisy. He was nearing the end of his pro-ball career. He was about to turn thirty. He was about to celebrate his tenth wedding anniversary with a woman who was then carrying their third child. And he apparently decided the future would be brighter with an eighteen-year-old white girl.

White AND Blonde? Exercise SOME Control Man!

My repugnance was indistinguishable from a kind of fever: It was nausea and revulsion; like any illness, it became itself the focus of intense interest to me, so that finally my questions were about myself and not – perhaps I should be embarrassed to admit – about Mr. Simpson or even about his victims, lying (in my forever-stained imagination) in a sludgy river of blood.