Sarah Weinman

@sarahweinman.bsky.social

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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 (in a few years): WITHOUT CONSENT

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Any classical music piece which includes Orson Welles narrating is automatically good

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

Richard Ben Cramer would report the hell out of the current political situation but he’s been dead for over a decade

Current vibes

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Moira Donegan

Literally got asked this by a good friend a few days ago

A centenary to celebrate.

"I turned to my husband and said, 'Oh, boy, that's a little suggestive, isn't it?' And my husband said, 'You got it, honey.' " —on first seeing the famous "train in a tunnel" ending of North by Northwest Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint.

All of this

Right there with you. There will be so much hindsight but it is also important (like with early days of the pandemic) that collective uncertainty is a real and true thing and not knowing is the norm

Happy Beach Day at Rockaway

A novel that I haven’t had the nerve to reread but would uhhhhh play very differently in 2024 is CHECKPOINT by Nicholson Baker

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Faine Greenwood

Call her to thank her! Positive comments go a long way too

The thing about the march to fascism is that aside from the terror and the consequences it’s also so goddamn embarrassing

Of course the problem is that one side feels that tremendous sense of mortification and the other pretends it doesn’t exist

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Benjamin Dreyer

Stefan Zweig kind of said this in THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY, which I should reread

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Tim Onion

Saxophone on Arsenio

AI companies are 100 percent consistent at giving people the exact opposite of what they want

Earlier this week, AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors to its newly launched Reader app. The company said the app takes articles, PDF, ePub, newsletters, e-books or any other text on your phone and turns it into voice-overs.

AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks | CNN Businesscnn.it Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you’ll soon be able to hear her rendition of the children’s novel that inspired the movie nonethel...

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Isaac! At the Butler!

I don’t really get it — do we want to see Depression-era police brutality, ok

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Carolyn Kellogg

RIP and also WHAT variety.com/2024/film/ne...

By sheer force of will I had a good reporting day

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Joshua J. Friedman

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I absolutely loved THE GOD OF THE WOODS and am so glad @katekilla.bsky.social did too!

At This Summer Camp, Ticks and Archery Aren’t the Biggest Dangerswww.nytimes.com In Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God of the Woods,” a pair of missing siblings spark a reckoning on the banks of an Adirondack lake.

Going the ferry really helped today

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🏳️‍⚧️ KRYSTA_NOW_FAN_69

YUP

Gallows humor is fine, doomerism gets you nowhere. It actually matters even more now.

Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

My own personal true crime nadir moment

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Christa Faust

It’s been a lot!! (And thank you!)

Mom: I don’t trust the media Me: I’m a member of the media and I don’t trust the media

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her)

I understood this reference

This was almost certainly based on a real guy, Fred Demara, also basis for THE GREAT IMPOSTOR starring Tony Randall