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Sarah Weinman

@sarahweinman.com

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Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Author, SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN. Next nonfiction book (November 2025): WITHOUT CONSENT http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · Feb 25

At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

The cover of my new book WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, out November 11, 2025, which shows a dark wood bed headrest, white sheets and pillows, a green backdrop, and the title in white bold capital letters and my name in black bold letters

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 8h

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 11h

Even booking Hanan Ashrawi, who used to be on cable news constantly, would be the easiest gimme but nope

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 11h

Must Un-See TV

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

it would depress you to know how old he actually is (and that I read at least one of his novels a zillion years ago)

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

W H A T

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

If you were never on USENET you must log off forever

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h

Oh thank god I was waiting for this piece all day

Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 16h

Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18h

That's entirely fair! I really wish a better word existed that got at the aftermath of traumatic events in a way that's emotionally closer to lived experience, and "closure" doesn't really meet the definition.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18h

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 20h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18h

#2 is what I’m talking about! (But also, what did you hope to gain by posting this?)

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18h

I’m further up! I wish I could afford the UWS! (But I love that neighborhood very much and yeah BK has gotten ridiculously expensive.)

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 18h

I know I’ve lost the battle but nothing sets my teeth on edge quite like the word “closure.” It does not exist.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 20h

Now with updated info and graphics! www.92ny.org/event/naboko...

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 21h

I am a very last-minute addition to this “Lolita at 70” panel tonight with the wonderful writers Jiayang Fan and Julia May Jonas! Details here: www.92ny.org/event/naboko...

Nabokov’s Lolita at 70 (with Jiayang Fan, Julia May Jonas, and now me, not pictured since I was a last-minute addition to the panel

Thursday October 9 at the 92nd Street Y, 7:30 PM

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22h

Yes!!!

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

I genuinely didn’t know he was still alive?! Amazing

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Read and share widely.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

(Obviously there are exceptions, once you have become a brand all bets are off because your book is a line item in the overall budget)

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Also, at least with books, if it feels like a book hasn’t been edited enough, it probably went through multiple rounds before editor and author gave up and it went into production

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Also repost this if a fact-checker had saved you from yourself. Both have happened to me, many times, which is the true and proper way of being an author and a journalist.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

SO glad you are ok tho!

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

It feels old-fashioned but I really like to read all of my followers and as such I simply cannot follow everybody back, I would never get any work done

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

❤️❤️❤️

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 1d

This is an outstanding book (I was lucky enough to read an advance copy). I just wish it weren’t so timely, but Sarah’s particular gift seems to be matching stories from the past with Our Current Moment.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Since @bookshop.org is offering free shipping through the end of the day why not pre-order my book and save a few coins?

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

bookshop.org

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