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Only If You Get Caught
Only If You Get Caught

The man who scammed the publishing world for love not money

36 min•29 september 2026

Om avsnittet

Patrick Redford interviews Reeves Wiedeman about the bizarre case of Filippo Bernardini, the "Spine Collector" who stole thousands of unpublished books without ever leaking or selling them. With reporting from. 


Episode transcript HERE


🏷️: book theft, publishing industry, Filippo Bernardini, The Spine Collector, unpublished manuscripts, phishing emails, identity theft, FBI investigation, Simon & Schuster, literary world, prestige, wire fraud, rights coordinator, Millennium series, Margaret Atwood, literary scouts, New York Magazine, revenge, global publishing


Show Credits


Only If You Get Caught is written and hosted, by Patrick Redford. 

It’s produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin, with production support from Harry Krinsky. Justin Ellis is Defector’s projects editor. Mixing by Samantha Gattsek  Show art by Jim Cooke. Jasper Wang and Tim Faust are Defector’s business guys. Thank you to the Defector staff. 


Defector Media is a collectively owned, subscriber based media company. 

Only If You Get Caught is a proud member of Radiotopia. 

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