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Sarah Weinman

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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 · 3h

And the score! Sondheim!

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 3h

Just means the rest of us can enjoy his posts

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 10h

Unlike BdB I think Mamdani is prepared for it

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 10h

And yet like clockwork, they will stay on the job

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 11h

Wow!!

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 11h

Oh good Christ

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 12h

When you still defend Lance Armstrong, maybe you just want to be grifted

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 12h

Roe v. Wade was a year old, no-fault divorce had only been ratified a few years earlier and the Equal Opprtunity Credit Act had just passed. This isn’t ancient history and so much is being rolled back.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 12h

Rewatching this brilliant, brutal scene and reminded that at the time GODFATHER II was released, marital rape was not a crime anywhere in North America. youtu.be/gxEvQwUJElc

"Our Marriage is an Abortion" - Diane Keaton in The Godfather Part II

YouTube video by Veronique Laurent

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

I still haven't read it, but next year is the 30th anniversary so it's time

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

A terrible but perfect way to go (also foreshadowed Joan Rivers' death by anesthesia some years later)

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

I just....!!!

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

The kicker is that Goldsmith didn't actually leave her publisher! She just got a new editor (the great Marjorie Braman, now dead, just like Larry Ashmead and Goldsmith herself)

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 14h

Rereading this 2004 NYMag feature on the exceedingly complicated author Olivia Goldsmith (who died way too young, as she likely wanted) and this is such a scorched-earth story about leaving your publisher nymag.com/nymetro/news...

Ashmead was equally smitten with Goldsmith until, Ashmead says, he incurred her wrath when he edited her 1996 novel Marrying Mom. “Marrying Mom had what I thought were some rather grotesque sex scenes between people over 70 years of age—they had to rearrange their bellies to have sexual intercourse,” Ashmead says. “I asked her to take it out. That was the end of the relationship. She went out the door and never came back.”

Well, not completely. It turned out Goldsmith was as adept at revenge as any of her characters. On Valentine’s Day, Ashmead opened his front door to discover a bag full of candy valentines. However, Olivia wasn’t trying to restart the friendship.

“She’d crossed out all the nice things and written ‘Fuck you, screw you,’ ” Ashmead says. “It must have taken a lot of time.”

She didn’t stop there. “She went on Sally Jesse Raphael once and said, ‘This book would be a lot better if my editor hadn’t gotten so old he’d forgotten what good sex is like,’ ” Ashmead remembers. “ ‘So if any of you have a manuscript with no sex in it, give it to … ’ and she gave my name.”

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h

This is, in fact, exactly who we are.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h

I genuinely think it's so bad right now -- and getting worse -- precisely because the regime knows it doesn't have that much time. Keep fighting back, keep spreading the word.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h

Needed to sleep on this and my god the evil of this news. I don't have better words than that.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

It’s mostly about figuring out how to pace the narrative, how to best reflect the passage of time and what people were thinking and feeling , and what details get precedence and what can be glossed over. Also finding the money quotes

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Reading a book where it feels like the author is synthesizing archival material in the way that I would have for my books and what a bizarre feeling that is

(Not naming the book because this isn’t the first time I’ve felt that way)

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Multitudes

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

Diane Keaton could have directed Annie Hall but Woody Allen could NEVER have directed the music video for Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth"

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Belinda Carlisle

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

I love that she was fully herself and a little mysterious.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

The Nora Ephron way, I’m guessing, with respect to handling illness

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

This isn’t how I found out but it definitely adds to her iconic status, RIP

Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton- such sad news, what an incredible talent. You probably didn't know she collected clown paintings by amateur artists, eventually publishing an entire book devoted to them

Diane Keaton surrounded by clown paintings

Book cover, Clown Paintings by Diane Keaton

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Loved this profile of the women who run Hagfish Books, another amazing company devoted to reissuing forgotten and overlooked titles.

They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

I didn't know Spufford was on here! Such a magnificent writer, GOLDEN HILL is phenomenal and so is CAHOKIA JAZZ

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