Unspeakable Acts by Sarah Weinman

Unspeakable Acts by Sarah Weinman

An NPR Best Book of
the Year

A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book

A 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

The
appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. 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.

Acclaimed 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. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today.  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.  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.

   

Sarah Weinman is widely recognized as a leading authority on crime fiction. She is the editor of Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (Penguin, 2013), which the Los Angeles Review of Books called simply one of the most significant anthologies of crime fiction, ever. She is the news editor for Publishers Marketplace and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the National Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Her long-running (but now on hiatus) blog, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, was hailed by USA TODAY as a respected resource for commentary on crime fiction. Weinman lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780062839886
ISBN 10	0062839888
Title	Unspeakable Acts
Author	Sarah Weinman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2020-07-28
Number of pages	416
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.