Writing the Police Procedural, with Melanie Anagnos

The Resilient Writers Radio Show · Apr 30, 2026 · 29m

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There’s something fascinating about stories that sit just outside the spotlight—moments in history that don’t always get the same attention, but quietly shape the world we’re living in now. That’s exactly where this conversation with Melanie Anagnos begins.

Melanie’s novel Night Swimming is set in the 1970s—a decade often overshadowed by the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, but one that was just as complex, just as charged, and in many ways, still echoing today.

As she shares in this episode, it was a time of enormous social change…