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Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession (Original 2020; 2020. Auflage)

von Sarah Weinman (Autor), Patrick Radden Keefe (Einführung)

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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.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Titel:Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
Autoren:Sarah Weinman (Autor)
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Info:Ecco (2020), 416 pages
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FYI Review - This anthology contains the following:
-Introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe
NARRATIVE FEATURES
-Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered by Michelle Dean
-The Reckoning by Pam Colloff
-Jennifer Pan's Revenge by Karen K. Ho
-The Perfect Man Who Wasn't by Rachel Monroe
WHERE CRIME MEETS CULTURE
-Out Came the GIrls by Alex Mar
-The End of Evil by Sarah Marshall
-The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime by Alice Bolin
-The Lost Children of "Runaway Train" by Elon Green
-The True Crime Behind the 1970s Cult Feminist Film Classic by Sarah Weinman
JUSTICE AND SOCIETY
-What Bullets Do to Bodies by Jason Fagone
-Checkpoint Nation by Melissa Del Bosque
-How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus by Leora Smith
-"I Am A Girl Now," Sage Smith Wrote. Then She Went Missing by Emma Copley Eisenberg
  Lemeritus | Feb 7, 2024 |
this is a nice collection of 13 true crimes stories. I read a lot of true crime and was familiar with all but one story, but each one was interesting and offered new information i wasn't aware of. ( )
  loraineo | Apr 18, 2022 |
(65) Impulse buy which turned out to just be a collection of essays about true crime. The narrative features were quite good in Part 1- in particular 'The Reckoning' about the pregnant student who was shot in the 1967 UT tower shooting and 'Out Came the Girls' - about 2 middle school girls who stabbed their classmate and friend based on the 'slender man' urban legend/fairy tale.

As the book went on and looked more at society, I felt the quality of the pieces went down and they sounded preachy as all too familiar moralizing re: against border patrol agents and racial/sexual orientation inequity regarding how missing persons cases are investigated, rants against gun violence began to leave me cold.

I definitely got some good ideas to binge watch such as 'The Jinx' and 'The case against Adnan Syed.' and there is a list of books I may check out. Apparently, I am not alone in liking 'high-brow' true crime, but I still can't help feeling somewhat ashamed of it. ( )
  jhowell | Dec 4, 2021 |
Sarah Weinman's latest project has been to gather together a collection of long-form journalism articles about crime. she has assembled some of the best non-fiction crime writing published today, from well-known crimes like the story of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blancharde, and the two girls who stabbed their friend to please Slenderman, to the story of the first woman shot by the sniper in the tower of the University of Texas in 1967, long before mass shootings became ordinary, and how an untested forensic procedure became accepted in criminal trials. Each article is fascinating and different from the others.

If you have any interest in long-form journalism, I highly recommend this book. ( )
1 abstimmen RidgewayGirl | Jan 7, 2021 |
This was a terrific anthology of True Crime writing comprised of 13 previously published articles. The essays were varied and well written. The best was the story of a woman who survived the first school shooting and how it changed her life. Other interesting ones were about two girls who killed another because of Slenderman & a girl who got her boyfriend to kill her mother who suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy. ( )
  KateHonig | Dec 3, 2020 |
Unspeakable Acts, edited by author, editor and critic Sarah Weinman, works as both a superb collection of true crime writing and a text that looks at the nuances of our collective obsession with horrific murders, con men and serial killers in a historical and cultural context.... Those looking for titillating, gruesome chronicles of human depravity will find much to like here — and those who want great, smart writing and outstanding research that unveils things we would rather not look at under a microscope will be equally satisfied....
hinzugefügt von Lemeritus | bearbeitenNPR, Gabino Iglesias (Jul 30, 2020)
 
A collection of perceptive essays reveals the range of true-crime writing featured in magazines today. The essays, all published in the past few years, veer away from the typical true-crime formula, which tends to focus, as editor Weinman notes, on “beautiful dead white girls.” In this collection, women are at least as likely to be perpetrators of crime as victims, and the contributors are hyperaware, sometimes to a fault, of their inherent fallibility in reporting the truth of the events they're considering....A well-chosen sampling of writings from a rapidly expanding and developing field.
hinzugefügt von Lemeritus | bearbeitenKirkus Reviews (May 3, 2020)
 
Our fascination with true crime disturbs some—after all, aren’t we exploiting victims by enjoying the stories of their deaths? Not necessarily. With nuance and sensitivity, Weinman (The Real Lolita) curates essays that consider the explosion of interest in true crime, stories from the perspectives of victims, and tales that present new information about notorious killers. Prolific and masterful essayists explore our deepest fears, our desires, our need to be valued, and our tendency as a species to observe and learn from one another’s misfortune....VERDICT This enthralling volume insists that there can and should be humanity within true crime. Whether readers are spellbound or disgusted by the genre, this is a must.
hinzugefügt von Lemeritus | bearbeitenLibrary Journal, Ahliah Bratzler (May 1, 2020)
 

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To those who find meaning, solace, catharsis, and outrage in crime stories, which is all of us
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When I was in fourth grade, kids told stories about a killer who was supposedly stalking the area. This was in Milton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, in the mid-1980s. The man drove a Chevy Nova and carried a knife, my classmates said. He was known as the Milton Quincy Stabber. -Introduction
True crime is having a moment. But then, once could say true crime has been having a moment for over three centuries, since the New England-based minister Cotton Mather published his execution sermons for eager Puritan audiences, then, with an altogether different pamphlet, laid the groundwork for the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. -Editors's Note
For seven years before the murder, Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blancharde lived in a small pink bungalow on West Volunteer Way in Springfield, Missouri. Their neighbors liked them. "'Sweet' is the world I'd use," a former friend of Dee Dee's told me not too long ago. Once you met them, people said, they were impossible to forget. -Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered
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Literary Criticism. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:

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.

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