As she wrote in BuzzFeed, “The scales have fallen from the eyes of true crime consumers. Weinman is conscious of the limits of true crime. There’s also a dive into the disappearance of Sage Smith, a Black trans woman living in Charlottesville, and a fresh perspective on Ted Bundy, among other stories. Weinman expands the idea of what a crime story is - one of the stories is about a woman who treats gunshot wounds, and one on a woman who faced brutality at the hands of U.S. Unspeakable Acts is dedicated to “those who find meaning, solace, catharsis, and outrage in crime stories, which is all of us.” This anthology highlights a wide spectrum of voices, where Weinman spotlights a new crop of true crime writers - ones who, as she writes, “centered the victims as human beings rather than rely on the trope of beautiful white dead girls,” ones who have an intersectional approach to their writing and understanding of crime, and ones who are women and people of color. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader.Crime writer Sarah Weinman is back, and I for one couldn’t be more excited. Michelle Dean’s “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick” went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV showThe Act and Pamela Colloff’s “The Reckoning,” is the gold standard for forensic journalism. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable.Īcclaimed author ofThe Real Lolita and editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. Pop Culture / Music / Humor / Biographies / CookbooksĪ brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita
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