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Lise Olsen
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Investigations editor @TexasObserver.org Author THE SCIENTIST & THE SERIAL KILLER @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social & CODE OF SILENCE—the inside story of the first federal judge to be impeached for sex crimes @BeaconPress.bsky.social www.liseolsen.com
More than 1,400 dead and a million displaced. Join Mayor Bill White, Rev Yearwood @HipHopCaucus @TexasObserver @reveal and @CapitalBNews in Houston 9/10 to talk about Hurricane Katrina’s lessons & huge impact on our region 20 years later. Details: waterprogramportal.org/event/the-li...
September 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wonderful to see Dallas friends and discuss The Scientist & the Serial Killer at The Wild Detectives with my talented @texasobserver.org colleague @stevanzetti.bsky.social. You can #independentbooks and pick up your signed copy this weekend.
April 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
My new book The Scientist and the Serial Killer is available tomorrow wherever books are sold. Signed copies available by contacting any of the bookstores hosting events
March 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
So fun to hear Emma Donoghue talking about her new novel The Paris Express— and how the “grittiest little facts” a can be spun into fiction. Inprint-Houston
March 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Join me and @michellepitcher.bsky.social for a discussion of #serialmurder, #missingpersons, #HumanRights and my #newbook The Scientist and the Serial Killer @bookpeople.bsky.social #Atx @texasobserver.org
FREE event! April 9, 7pm at BookPeople, #Austin, Texas
RSVP: buff.ly/41fxDnm
March 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The challenges to press freedom & the #Texas public information act are real- honored to join investigative reporters & lawyers engaged in this fight in panel organized by @Houstonbar @spj-posts.bsky.social Houston @josephinelee.bsky.social
@lomikriel.bsky.social @lmcgaughy.bsky.social Eric Meyer
February 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
February 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Join the Texas Observer’s conversation with @jesspish.bsky.social
on February 5th for this FREE event at Alienated Majesty Books. @francescadnunz.bsky.social and the author will discuss Pishko's provocative book about the dangers posed by extremist sheriffs.

RSVP: buff.ly/4gzkA5r
January 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
One more day to enter to win an advance copy of my #newbook the Scientist and the Serial Killer via @randomhousees.bsky.social on Instagram. #truecrime #investigativereporting
January 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Random House has a cool giveaway featuring The Scientist and the Serial Killer and Ashley Flower’s The Missing Half @crimejunkie.bsky.social check out @randomhouse and enter to win on Instagram by 1/3
December 27, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Hey: #criminaljustce reporter @michellepitcher.bsky.social of @texasobserver.org has just joined us here -an alum of @themarshallproject.org alum & @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winner. Follow her and other #Texas Observers with my starter pack.
December 9, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Texas AG Paxton still withholding communications from Jan. 6, watchdog group says. And he and the governor are attacking the Texas #publicinformation act. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex... via @houstonchronicle.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:26 PM
We’ve got some @texasobserver.org peeps to follow: @gusbova.bsky.social @byjustinmiller.bsky.social @francescadnunz.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social
@josephinelee.bsky.social & me. Plus esteemed alum @kitoconnell.com. Bonus pic of newly-named EIC Gus Bova with his baby at an Observer bash.
November 21, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Hey @bsky.app folks- I post on #investigativereporting, #nonfiction, #writinglife, #pressfreedom, #books, #gardening, #Texas and myriad topics. I look forward to building community and exchanging ideas here.
November 17, 2024 at 9:30 PM
The @texasobserver.org nearly died in 2023, then thousands of readers saved us. In 2024, we proudly published investigations other media wouldn’t touch. Now we’re celebrating- join us for the Observer’s 70th birthday bash. Tix are by donation& include 2 drinks. www.texasobserver.org/a-texas-mira...
November 15, 2024 at 10:26 PM