# Event Details - **Event Name**: In-Store: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil w/ Sarah Weinman - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 20 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 20 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: “A feat of dogged reporting, bravura storytelling, and clear-eyed moral conscience." —Patrick Radden KeefeAbout this EventEvent guidelines:Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.A signing will follow the talk.Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/vo9u2FZccMsAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net.The riveting, true story of an audacious con man who helped send another man to death row for a M**der he did not commit.For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney, an undercover agent, and a terminal cancer patient. In these guises he married nine women—some at the same time.When Skalnik got caught, as he invariably did, he would run a different con. Locked up with other men awaiting trial, he claimed they confessed their crimes to him. Then he peddled those stories to prosecutors. In Pinellas County, Florida, he became a frequent witness for the state, thinking nothing of exaggerating men’s wrongdoing or implicating the innocent to help prosecutors win convictions. In return, the state rewarded him with his freedom, fueling his growing sense of invincibility. Soon he was not just committing fraud; he was preying on girls in their teens or barely into adolescence.In 1985, Jim Dailey, a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran, was implicated in the M**der of a fourteen-year-old girl and landed in the Pinellas County J*il with Skalnik. No forensic evidence or motive linked Dailey to the killing, but Skalnik’s account of his "confession" helped put Dailey on death row. Skalnik, meanwhile, walked free. More than three decades later, after another man took responsibility for the killing, Pamela Colloff, reporting for the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica, visited Skalnik and asked him if he would recant his testimony. He refused.By then, Skalnik had caused untold damage: to the women and girls he exploited, to the dozens of men he helped imprison, and to Jim Dailey, who went on to receive an execution date. In this mesmerizing debut, Pamela Colloff spins a dark tale of a remorseless and brilliant liar made lethal by a system more concerned with winning convictions than finding the truth.Pamela Colloff is a reporter at ProPublica and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. She was the recipient of a National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2020 and for Feature Writing in 2013. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Crime Reporting, and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists. Colloff holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Brown University. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and their two children.Sarah Weinman is the author of Scoundrel , The Real Lolita , and most recently, Without Consent. She is the editor of Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning. She was a 2020 National Magazine Award finalist for reporting and a Calderwood Journalism Fellow at MacDowell, and her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, Esquire, and New York magazine. Weinman is the Crime & Mystery columnist for the New York Times Book Review and lives in New York City. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-pamela-colloff-catch-the-devil-w-sarah-weinman/100001989861606631 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, magic-show, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - door_time: 2026-07-20T22:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books Are Magic Montague - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10.89, max: 34.84, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Are Magic Montague - **lat**: 40.6945995 - **long**: -73.994642 - **full address**: Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: In-Store: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil w/ Sarah Weinman - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/a4077dde0b597c28ba32a977a2406ccf95f5d76a41cee7bd1b9625803de10f73-rimg-w1200-h600-dcdc6439-gmir.jpg?v=1779196055 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is In-Store: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil w/ Sarah Weinman being held? - **A:** In-Store: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil w/ Sarah Weinman takes place on Mon, 20 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 20 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing In-Store: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil w/ Sarah Weinman? - **A:** In-Store: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil w/ Sarah Weinman is organized by Books Are Magic. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** In-Store: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil w/ Sarah Weinman is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Brooklyn, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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