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Sarah Weinman

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Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN. www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 13h
I spoke with the student reporters who broke the story of the "Cornell Seven" lawsuit. Our conversation for @thecut.com: www.thecut.com/article/corn...
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How Students Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h
A beautiful story about a woman whose life ended far, far too soon.
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Central Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There. (Gift Article)
Francis Lee Rogers painted birds in the park, her home for decades. She was found dead on Sunday, beaten and stabbed, shaking a community of friends and collectors of her art.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h
Happy publication day to @robertkolker.com!! (This book is gorgeously heartbreaking, and will help so many people.)
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h
Good morning, I am very pleased to announce that my one and only paperback event for WITHOUT CONSENT is a joint launch on Thursday, November 5 with the novelist Donna Freitas, whose new book WOLVES OF SUMMER publishes on the same day. Details/registration link here: www.92ny.org/event/donna-...
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Donna Freitas and Sarah Weinman: Wolves of Summer and Without Consent

05 NOV THURSDAY
7:30 PM ET/IN PERSON and STREAMING
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 27/09/2026
Thoughts after watching PRIMETIME: 1) Merritt Wever is unbelievably good in a role that was otherwise underwritten 2) Very clearly indebted to ZODIAC 3) They should never, ever, ever make another film of LOLITA, but since I kept thinking Robert Pattinson (amazing) had Jeremy Irons vibes, well...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 26/09/2026
I wrote about FURIOUS (which I loved), and what it says about the times we're living in even as it takes its narrative template squarely from late 80s/early 90s films we almost never see anymore, for @foreignpolicy.com.
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‘Furious’ Is an Angry Show for the World of Epstein and Trump
A tumultuous TV thriller delves into damage and revenge.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 27/09/2026
spent the evening with my score of Judas Maccabeus and a favorite recording and basically sang the soprano choral part from start to finish It may not be everyone's way of learning an oratorio, but apparently, this is mine
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 26/09/2026
I wrote about FURIOUS (which I loved), and what it says about the times we're living in even as it takes its narrative template squarely from late 80s/early 90s films we almost never see anymore, for @foreignpolicy.com.
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‘Furious’ Is an Angry Show for the World of Epstein and Trump
A tumultuous TV thriller delves into damage and revenge.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 25/09/2026
Thinking about crime fiction reissued this year and while I've read a bunch, there's plenty more I might have missed -- which ones are your favorites?
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 25/09/2026
Oh no this guy's (maybe) back
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Filippo Bernardini Scammed the Book Business for Years. Is He Back?
The man who admitted to stealing hundreds of manuscripts swore he’d never do it again. New online skulduggery resembles his old tricks, and then some.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 25/09/2026
oh wait I also realize it is a future episode of POKER FACE
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 24/09/2026
Got an edit letter that is clearly going to make this piece better and I remain baffled at people who don't like being edited?!
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 24/09/2026
Ladies and gentlethings, I present to you the first excerpt from @beckbook.com Many thanks to @nymag.com for putting it in print and to @vulture.com for presenting it so beautifully online Please read, if you are so inclined CW: Uh… intense emotional distress? I don't want to give anything away…
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Losing Beck
His acclaimed album, Sea Change, was inspired by a breakup. For his ex-partner, it was the story of how the Church of Scientology took over his life.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 24/09/2026
It's so funny to me that Robert Pattinson is reaping praise for playing him as a mad figure in PRIMETIME and meanwhile, this series deal just got announced
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report 
 Category: Fiction: Thriller
September 21, 2026
untitled series By Chris Hansen
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and host of To Catch a Predator and Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, Chris Hansen's untitled series about a legendary television investigator who built his career confronting predators, only to find himself and his family hunted by a man he once exposed, to Stuart Roberts at Simon & Schuster, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, by Matt Latimer at Javelin (world).
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 24/09/2026
@darthbluesky.bsky.social did you see this wild story yet
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Idaho officials solved a cold case that may have a connection to the infamous 1982 'Tylenol murders'
BOISE — Idaho law enforcement believe a man found dead after poisoning himself in a Boise church 44 years ago could have a connection to the 1982 Tylenol killings, an unsolved string of homicides that...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 23/09/2026
Wild development as the identification of a John Doe found in Idaho in December 1982 might be connected to the Tylenol Murders.
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Idaho officials solved a 1982 cold case that may have a connection to the infamous 1982 'Tylenol murders'
BOISE — Idaho law enforcement believe a man found dead after poisoning himself in a Boise church 44 years ago could have a connection to the 1982 Tylenol killings, an unsolved string of homicides that...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22/09/2026
Recently and finally read BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK by Barbara Trapido and loooooooved it so much
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 20/09/2026
phone autocorrected to "lol nidre" and well, if that doesn't describe the year's mood (grim hilarity) I don't know what does Wishing those who observe an easy fast
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18/09/2026
Maybe I'll take the AI apocalyptic doomerism seriously if it was being put forward by people who, idk, actually contended with a serious illness and survived it? (Hell of a way to mark the 10th anniversary of my diagnosis and all that was to come, but there you go. I'm glad to be alive and well.)
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 16/09/2026
The TV show was LANCE ET COMPTE (He Shoots, He Scores), a 1980s hockey soap opera The line was "J'ai coacheé ma dernier game" The translation was "J'ai dirigé ma dernier match"
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This piece is truly bonkers. And no, you can’t have a gift link. Work this good costs money.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 16/09/2026
When Nancy Kissinger died last month, her obits glancingly mentioned a strange 1982 incident where she went on trial for choking out a Lyndon LaRouche supporter. I'd already been piecing the story together, and the results are in today's @flaminghydra.com newsletter:
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Throttle diplomacy
Nancy Kissinger goes berserk in the Newark Airport: a vignette of 1982 by Sarah Weinman
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 16/09/2026
TODAY: @sarahweinman.com on the curious incident of Nancy Kissinger attacking a member of a little-known and very strange activist group at an aiport. "Nancy Kissinger would go on trial a few months later, but everyone knew who was really being judged in court." flaminghydra.com/issue-648/#p...
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Nancy Kissinger goes berserk in the Newark Airport: a vignette of 1982 by Sarah Weinman
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 16/09/2026
When Nancy Kissinger died last month, her obits glancingly mentioned a strange 1982 incident where she went on trial for choking out a Lyndon LaRouche supporter. I'd already been piecing the story together, and the results are in today's @flaminghydra.com newsletter:
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Throttle diplomacy
Nancy Kissinger goes berserk in the Newark Airport: a vignette of 1982 by Sarah Weinman
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15/09/2026
This is tonight! So looking forward to talking to @sarannmcd.bsky.social about her revelatory new book.
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy pub day to me! And to Jehanne. I hope she might be glad of my admiration for her: her jokes, her style, and her incredible grit. #medievalsky #skystorians. Come celebrate with me and @sarahweinman.com tonight or @harvardbookstore.bsky.social tomorrow @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Next week, Sept 15 at 6:00 pm EDT, see @sarannmcd.bsky.social, author of Justice for Jehanne, at The New York Public Library! She will discuss her spellbinding narrative history, in conversation with award-winning author @sarahweinman.com. Register for this free, hybrid event here: buff.ly/TAGWTBP
Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor by Sara McDougallSara McDougall
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 06/09/2026
And here are the pre-order details for my brother's next book, DISASSEMBLED, coming from HarperCollins Canada on May 18, 2027: www.harpercollins.com/products/dis...
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Disassembled
An engaging memoir about one writer’s struggle with grief, mental illness, identity—and one all-consuming, life-wrecking obsessionGrowing up, Jaime Weinman l...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 08/09/2026
One of my biggest regrets when I was in Santa Fe earlier this year was not getting to the Chuck Jones Museum
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 06/09/2026
And here are the pre-order details for my brother's next book, DISASSEMBLED, coming from HarperCollins Canada on May 18, 2027: www.harpercollins.com/products/dis...
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Disassembled
An engaging memoir about one writer’s struggle with grief, mental illness, identity—and one all-consuming, life-wrecking obsessionGrowing up, Jaime Weinman l...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 04/09/2026
I would also love to see you at the event I am doing with @sarannmcd.bsky.social at the NYPL Cullman Center on Tuesday, September 15 for her wonderful new book JUSTICE FOR JEHANNE. Details here: events.leapevents.com/event/mcdoug...
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Justice for Jehanne: Sara McDougall with Sarah Weinman
Tickets for Justice for Jehanne: Sara McDougall with Sarah Weinman in New York from NYPL. A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women’s lives in the Middle Ages and inf...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 03/09/2026
Wrote about Izabella Scott's THE BED TRICK, a complex, brilliant book about a case where gender, race, sex, class, and storytelling itself ended up on trial, for @theatlantic.com.
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The Sexual Politics of the ‘Bed Trick’
A new book about an infamous trial asks how the stories we tell can define our relationships.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/09/2026
A new book explores a notorious case that “featured an extreme manifestation of Britain’s cultural discomfort with shifting gender norms,” @sarahweinman.com writes:
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The Problem With Putting Sexual Deception on Trial
A new book about a “bed trick” case asks how the stories we tell can define our relationships.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 03/09/2026
Wrote about Izabella Scott's THE BED TRICK, a complex, brilliant book about a case where gender, race, sex, class, and storytelling itself ended up on trial, for @theatlantic.com.
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The Sexual Politics of the ‘Bed Trick’
A new book about an infamous trial asks how the stories we tell can define our relationships.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/09/2026
Breaking News: Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader who galvanized the modern women’s movement, challenged sexist assumptions and fought for gender equality, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4cVollO
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 02/09/2026
Saw COYOTE vs. ACME with my brother, the actual Warner Bros. cartoons expert, over the weekend and we both liked it
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 02/09/2026
Now that Dolly's gone, Yo-Yo Ma is the closest we have to a universally loved artist.
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At 70, Yo-Yo Ma Is Modeling a Way to Be in the World Today
With a global audience, Ma models a way of being that goes against the grain of cynicism, polarization and isolation. It’s up to us to pay attention.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 31/08/2026
I was taken aback by the ferocity of Dwight Garner's rave about THE DISAPPEARERS (because it was so unexpectedly ecstatic) but it is a really, really good novel.
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Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22/08/2026
This month's Crime & Mystery column is up, reviewing new books by George Pelecanos, Mimi Montgomery, Olesya Lyuzna, and Tim Sullivan. (gift link)
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The Month’s Best New Mystery Books (Gift Article)
Our columnist on four of the month’s best releases.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22/08/2026
This month's Crime & Mystery column is up, reviewing new books by George Pelecanos, Mimi Montgomery, Olesya Lyuzna, and Tim Sullivan. (gift link)
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The Month’s Best New Mystery Books (Gift Article)
Our columnist on four of the month’s best releases.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 20/08/2026
Postscript: a couple of years later I went to see a restaging of LOLITA, MY LOVE that tried to reframe the story (with a Black female Dr. Ray Jr.) and it still didn't work. The musical remains cursed.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17/08/2026
From Rachel Aviv's stunner of a story about D. Carleton Gajdusek, those who survived his sexual abuse (and those who didn't) and the people who didn't give a damn and let him flaunt his unrepentant pederasty. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15/08/2026
Horrifying story, grimly reminiscent of (yet much worse than) the Stephane Bourgoin story in France. There's a certain type of true crime guy who specializes in serial killer stories and the red flags just multiply around them. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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Christopher Berry-Dee is the UK’s all-time bestselling true crime author. Is he also a violent abuser of women and children?
The British writer is known for his unique ability to get inside the heads of serial killers. But a Guardian investigation reveals multiple accusations of assault and child sexual abuse. What is the t...
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14/08/2026
Very excited to talk about @sarannmcd.bsky.social's stellar new book JUSTICE FOR JEHANNE at the NYPL Cullman Center on Tuesday, September 15 at 6 PM! (We'll see if we get to Madonna, but why not?)
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So I already read and loved WE WILL SEE YOU BLEED but goddamn, "Redemption is a myth, but solidarity is not" is such an incredible line
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 06/08/2026
My latest Crime & Mystery column (for July, running a bit late) reviews recent books by Ron Currie, Teresa Dovalpage, Jack Friday, and Carolyn Marie Wilkins.
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Brilliant, Bloody New Mystery Novels
Our critic on four terrific new releases.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 05/08/2026
Still not really on here but already the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century has prompted a ton of discussion: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century
Hundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up.
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