Coverage of Linda Riss and Burt Pugach

(New York Mirror (1959))

Linda Riss and Burt Pugach

(CRAZY LOVE, 2007 / Alamy)

Karen:

Linda Riss and Burt Pugach

Episode sources:

1. “A Very Different Love Story” by Berry Stainback

2. “Crazy Love”

3. “Linda Pugach” (Legacy.com)

4. “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” by Ruth La Ferla (New York Times) 2007

5. “City People: A Sort of Love Story” by Mark Fass (New York Times) 2004

6. “Meet the Pugachs” by Marianne MacDonald (The Guardian) 2007

7. United States Ex Rel. Pugach v Mancusi (SDNY) 1970

8. “PUGACH SLASHES WRISTS AT TRIAL; Cuts Are Tenned Superficial -- Commitment Denied” (New York Times) 1961

9. “A Very Different Love Story” by Joyce Carol Oates (New York Times) 1977

10. “Linda Pugach dies at 75; disfigured by lye, she married attacker” by Elaine Woo (LA Times) 2013

11. “Pugachs were a headline of their times” by Simon Houpt (Globe and Mail) 2007

12. “Transcripts” (CNN / Larry King Live) 2007

13. “Ex-Lawyer Convicted in Maiming Seeks Reinstatement” by Alan Feuer (New York Times) 2001

14. “Burt Pugach, Protagonist of a Strange Tabloid Love Story, Dies at 93” by Sam Roberts (New York Times) 2021

15. “For Worse and for Better: Documenting an Obsession” by Allison Hope Weiner (New York Times) 2007

16. “The Vengeful” (New York Daily News) 1962

17. “Lye” (Brittanica)

Georgia:

The Great Emu War

Episode sources:

1. “‘Feathered foes’: Soldier settlers and Western Australia's ‘Emu War’ of 1932” by Murray Johnson

2. “Walgoolan and the Emu War of 1932”

3. “Western Australia Makes War on Emus” (British Movietone, 1932)

4. “The bizarre story of when Australia went to war with emus—and lost” by Rebecca Toy (National Geographic, December 6, 2024)

5. “Emu War Defended” (The Argus, November 19, 1932)

A clipping from an old edition of a newspaper.

(National Library of Australia)

Australian soldiers in the Great Emu War

Recommendation Corner

Books
All Fours by Miranda July

Amazing Dogs
Valerie the dachshund

Movies
Pride & Prejudice