You think journalism is dead and then a zillion publications send reporters to Brooklyn Heights to look at the animatronic bird. Really makes you think.
Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social
Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down https://www.themarisreview.com/ https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Absolutely deranged. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Faber Halts Sally Rooney’s U.K. Sales, Citing Counterterrorism Law
The publisher and Irish author mutually agreed to pull Rooney’s books after the U.K. banned financial support of Palestine Action, to which Rooney previously pledged to donate her royalty earnings.
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In which I complain about the lack of great writing about a debut novel I enjoyed very much. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 126
The theme of the week is the slipperiness of the truth in the stories we like to consume What I read this week The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Nafissa Thompson-Spires I love a...
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Huge, incredible, lifechanging news: We have an essay on @weareravenous.com from the one and only @nikostratis.com, about that emo album Wendy's put out www.weareravenous.com/wendys-emo-a...
Wendy’s Is Trading on Millennial Nostalgia With Emo
Wendy's released an EP, 'Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot,' with a slew of emo heavy-hitters. It hopes to cash in on your memories of eating a Frosty after you were dumped.
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In which I complain about the lack of great writing about a debut novel I enjoyed very much. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 126
The theme of the week is the slipperiness of the truth in the stories we like to consume What I read this week The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Nafissa Thompson-Spires I love a...
themarisreview.com
Nobody told me that the opening scene of Verity takes place at Books Are Magic, which is absolutely what makes the movie so relatable.
I love the trailer for the Sylvester Stallone movie because it feels like the guy impersonating Sly is doing his best Elizabeth Holmes impression. It's perfect.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)
Dave Singleton@dfsingleton.com · 2d agoApparently this is the bird
Much like how a beach read is any book you choose to bring to the beach, books for men are any books that men decide to read.
"If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership?" This is very much in the Platnerian mode that presumes all men are only attracted to content by, for, and possibly about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...
The Strange Resurrection of Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and ...
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I just let out a big “ugh!”, and when @joshgondelman.bsky.social asked why I read him this headline.
As #BannedBooksWeek starts winding down, here are two things you can do...well...kinda forever to help defend books, reading, and literary culture....
Grateful for the chance to talk through the research that went into "What PEN America Got Wrong about Antisemitism in Publishing" for Jewish Currents's podcast On the Nose. When an org like PEN treats dissent from Israel as antisemitism, that's a real problem jewishcurrents.org/fact-versus-...
Fact Versus Fiction in Claims About Antisemitism in Publishing
Scholars Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin discuss their recent investigation into what PEN America got wrong in its article about bias against Jewish and…
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It’s here!!
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 6d agoIn July, I went to the NFL Flag Championships in Indiana to see the enormous boom in youth flag football in person. Turns out, girls love ball. My story leads off @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s November issue on women’s sports. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
“If your book had a walk out song what would it be?” This is why @labrise.bsky.social is the queen of asking authors questions at the Kirkus Prizes
Using surveillance software is also very much a sign that management has no appreciation for the actual work their employees are doing. Books don't get made like widgets get made. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
S&S Staff Balk at AI Performance-Tracking Software Talks
Employees at Simon & Schuster are circulating an open letter objecting to the potential use of AI software to track their work. In a memo, CEO Greg Greeley said there is currently “no company-wide rol...
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Over the weekend I was on a panel about AI in books and I said that publishers have always been so careful about fair use -- you can use maybe a line or two from a song but never any more -- and then the tech bros were like, we are entitled to all books. They belong to us now. Fuck you.
This week's newsletter is about End Times Fascism and how we can fight back against our overlords. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 125
The theme of the week is that there are actual ways to fight back against the monstrous people who are in power right now What I read this week End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World ...
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It's a PRIME DAY to shop our Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale, where every audiobook you purchase directly benefits your independent bookshop (versus a mega corporation). You don't have to be a member to shop, but members do take an additional 30% off. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
This week's newsletter is about End Times Fascism and how we can fight back against our overlords. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 125
The theme of the week is that there are actual ways to fight back against the monstrous people who are in power right now What I read this week End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World ...
themarisreview.com
As always, when a devastating new report about book bans in America is published, I challenge you to think less about the most banned author — Stephen King is fine — and more about the banned authors who are trying to scrabble together a living from their art. pen.org/report/book-...
A Spotlight on School Book Bans
Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.
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I love how Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list is a couple of socialists and then mostly super villains who want to destroy the world.
Just want to clarify that in the Lit Hub piece that the New York Times links to, my premise was weird girl lit is a silly category, and also women have been writing this way forever www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
When Josh Lambert and Dan Sinykin tracked publishing deals since 2000, they found—rather than a decline in Jewish literature—that 2025 was the third-best year of the 21st century for book deals that publicly signaled Jewish or Israeli content. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
