The Business of Thin Mints: ‘Cookie Queens’ and the High-Stakes Evolution of the Girl Scout Empire
The image is a staple of the American suburban landscape: a card table set up outside a grocery store, manned by a group of young girls in green or brown vests, offering boxes of Thin Mints and Tagalongs with practiced smiles. For decades, this was…
Into the Murky Waters: A Deep Dive into Brando Benetton’s ‘The Girl in the River’
By Alex Billington July 22, 2026 The quiet, oppressive humidity of the American South has long served as a fertile breeding ground for the crime thriller genre. From the swampy noir of True Detective to the gothic mysteries of the bayou, there is an…