Unspeakable acts : true tales of crime, murder, deceit, and obsession / [edited by] Sarah Weinman ; with an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 396 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062839886
- 0062839888
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Dee Dee wanted her daughter to be sick, Gypsy wanted her mom murdered / Michelle Dean -- Reckoning / Pamela Colloff -- Jennifer Pan's revenge / Karen K. Ho -- Perfect man who wasn't / Rachel Monroe -- Out came the girls / Alex Mar -- End of evil / Sarah Marshall -- Ethical dilemma of highbrow true crime / Alice Bolin -- Lost children of "Runaway Train" / Elon Green -- True crime story behind a 1970s cult feminist film classic / Sarah Weinman -- What bullets do to bodies / Jason Fagone -- Checkpoint nation / Melissa Del Bosque / How a dubious forensic science spread like a virus / Leora Smith -- "I am a girl now," Sage Smith wrote. Then she went missing / Emma Copley Eisenberg.
"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" -- from publisher.