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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Sarah Weinman: The Real Lolita

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Author Sarah Weinman shines a light on the kidnapping of young Sally Horner and how her ordeal in the 1940s might have inspired controversial novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s book “Lolita” and what lessons we can learn about victim-blaming.  

Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink/additional research Ella Middleton 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We at Wundry live, breathe, and downright obsess over True Crime,

0:04.0

and now we're launching the ultimate True Crime fan experience, Exhibit C.

0:09.2

Join now by following Wundry Exhibit C on Facebook and listen to True Crime on Wundry and Amazon Music.

0:16.1

Exhibit C. It's truly criminal.

0:20.4

This story contains adult content and language, along with references to sexual assault.

0:25.6

Listener discretion is advised.

0:31.7

I wanted to bring Sally's story into some spotlight because

0:36.3

understanding what she went through could help other girls and women understand

0:41.1

what traumas they might have experienced or might be privy to.

0:47.4

I'm Kate Winkler-Dosson, an on-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

0:52.1

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, on exactly right.

0:57.3

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

1:00.3

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom,

1:04.7

and they are all excellent writers.

1:06.8

They've had so many great True Crime stories, and now we want to tell you those stories

1:11.7

with details that have never been published.

1:14.3

Wicked Words is about the choices that writers make good and bad.

1:18.8

It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

1:24.3

It doesn't necessarily come in the box of a stranger leaps out and violently assault you,

1:30.8

or violently murders you that there can be a lot of psychological coercion,

1:34.8

coercive control.

1:36.4

Sarah Wyman is a fantastic writer and author in New York City.

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