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Writers

Sarah Weinman

Crime

Before, and After, the Jogger

Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.

Sarah Weinman The Cut Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Crime Movies & TV

The True Crime Story Behind a 1970 Cult Feminist Film Classic

Meet the inspiration for Barbara Loden’s Wanda.

Sarah Weinman Topic Oct 2017 20min Permalink

Massacre on Ninth and Main

America’s first modern mass shooting.

Sarah Weinman Buzzfeed Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Arts

The Real Lolita

The story of 11-year-old Sally Horner’s abduction changed the course of 20th-century literature. She just never got to tell it herself.

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Previously: Vladimir Nabokov’s 1964 </em>Playboy interview</a>.

Sarah Weinman Hazlitt Nov 2014 35min Permalink

The Mysterious Disappearance of Peter Winston

A chess prodigy vanishes.

Sarah Weinman The New York Observer Jul 2012 Permalink