Sarah Weinman
@sarahweinman.com
Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
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Sarah Weinman
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· Nov 11
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
The Panican Brief
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The Panican Brief
This is a really comprehensive profile of the current fortunes and fascinating life of Laura X, whom I wrote about in WITHOUT CONSENT:
Laura X got spousal rape banned in California. At 85, she scrapes by in a Berkeley hotel room
She got spousal rape banned in California. Now 85, her fortune went to building a million-page women’s history archive — and to a Ponzi scheme.
www.berkeleyside.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
This is a really comprehensive profile of the current fortunes and fascinating life of Laura X, whom I wrote about in WITHOUT CONSENT:
Oh this is a fantastic hire!
Inbox: The New Yorker is hiring Washington Post book critic Becca Rothfeld.
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Oh this is a fantastic hire!
"We’re going to have to, as an industry, just make sure that they’re f***ing good." On the crisis in nonfiction publishing, and making sure this is actually cyclical and not indicative of something deeper.
There’s a crisis in non-fiction book sales. What’s to blame?
We’re buying 17 million fewer factual books than six years ago. Is the rise of podcasts to blame? Or publishers’ obsession with celebrities and influencers?
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
"We’re going to have to, as an industry, just make sure that they’re f***ing good." On the crisis in nonfiction publishing, and making sure this is actually cyclical and not indicative of something deeper.
Best thread you will read today.
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Best thread you will read today.
Reposted by Sarah Weinman
Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
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A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
The wedding was real!!
Bad Bunny Stuns the Super Bowl With Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and a Real Wedding Ceremony as Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba and More Party on Stage
Bad Bunny staged a Super Bowl Halftime performance for the ages on Sunday, with Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, an elaborate set and a real wedding.
variety.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:29 AM
The wedding was real!!
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Every single one.
When he gave the Grammy to that young boy who made everyone think of Liam…even if that wasn’t actually Liam, it was just the perfect way of cutting through all the bullshit.
Every kid impacted by this administration’s cruelty is another Liam.
Every kid impacted by this administration’s cruelty is another Liam.
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Every single one.
Talked about my book on the latest edition of the VIEWPOINTS radio program: www.wnbz.com/on-demand/vi...
One Case, Fifty States: When Marriage Was An Exception To The Law | Why So Many Workers Quit Their Boss, Not Their Job - Viewpoints
One Case, Fifty States: When Marriage Was An Exception To The LawFor much of U.S. history, marriage quietly overruled consent, shielding a crime the law refused to name. We revisit the 1978 case that ...
www.wnbz.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Talked about my book on the latest edition of the VIEWPOINTS radio program: www.wnbz.com/on-demand/vi...
Just a masterclass, well done @adamgabbatt.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Just a masterclass, well done @adamgabbatt.bsky.social
Failure and constraints are the best thing to happen in making art, and also living life, which AI also cannot do
What limits AI is the same thing that inspires real artists: failure. Everyone starts off trying to copy the things they love, and their distinctiveness begins where that imitation falls short.
February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Failure and constraints are the best thing to happen in making art, and also living life, which AI also cannot do
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
Good riddance to perhaps the worst newspaper publisher of all time (definitely the 21st century)
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Good riddance to perhaps the worst newspaper publisher of all time (definitely the 21st century)
It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all
Officially at the "watching vintage figure skating routines" stage of burnout, not the worst way to deal
February 7, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Officially at the "watching vintage figure skating routines" stage of burnout, not the worst way to deal
Haven't decided if I'm going to get seriously into Olympics-watching but have fond memories of 1998 when I almost flunked out of my sophomore year because I spent too much time watching the Winter Games at ungodly early hours
February 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Haven't decided if I'm going to get seriously into Olympics-watching but have fond memories of 1998 when I almost flunked out of my sophomore year because I spent too much time watching the Winter Games at ungodly early hours
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I owe my career to this format and I think everyone should go to a used bookstore and buy one today.
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I owe my career to this format and I think everyone should go to a used bookstore and buy one today.
This is FANTASTIC
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
This is FANTASTIC
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
What a remarkable book @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
What a remarkable book @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
Why do I keep writing books that are all too relevant to the present moment
February 6, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Why do I keep writing books that are all too relevant to the present moment
The linked essay is very good; the photo is remarkable.
there is an infamous 'joke' lecture they invited him to do about groping. they didn't just think it was acceptable, they thought it was hilarious.
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The linked essay is very good; the photo is remarkable.
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i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list