your annual reminder that, every year, bookstores make a third or more of their money between now & New Year’s ☺️ meanwhile, Amazon supports & abets ICE most bookstores ship nationwide. A lot of them also have stores on bookshop.org
Kristen Martin
@kwistent.bsky.social
Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, out now from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, NYT Mag, WaPo, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly
Finally saw You Can See Everything and managed to make it the whole way through without a pee break, astonishing as I am 27 weeks pregnant, plz clap
Infuriating new details. 1) PA DHS said this foster parent should "never be used" again following an earlier case of abuse 2) the agency she worked with was Catholic Social Services, which won dispensation to continue to work in Philly despite refusing to work w/LGBTQ+ foster parents
Kristen Martin@kwistent.bsky.social · 4d agoHorrific and harrowing news about Malayshia Alford, a 10-year-old Philadelphia girl. Her foster mother has been charged with her death. I want to know what "danger" DHS & judges ruled she was in with her mother that put her in this woman's house in the first place share.inquirer.com/ZcEDTu
Not Jeopardy with National Adoption Month propaganda and a clue that suggests "kids in foster care may look forward" to it 😡
My book correcting cultural myths about orphanhood in the U.S., from the days of orphanages to our current foster care system, is called THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW (and yes I do have a chapter on Annie) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashion. Step two: Orphan acquires caretakers who...
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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d agoYou should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.
Editors, I'd still love to cover Zach Dembo flipping KY's 6th Congressional District, a Trump +15 district. I think there are national angles to this story and I'd love to pitch if anyone is still taking election-related stories! rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com
My jazz dance teacher let us bring in music to warm up to. I brought my brother’s Matchbox 20 CD and used a post-it to mark all the songs with bad words
Steven Perkins@stevenperkins.bsky.social · last wk.please delight me with your most on-brand story from your childhood mine is that I quit Cubs after two weeks because it clashed with Coronation Street
My book correcting cultural myths about orphanhood in the U.S., from the days of orphanages to our current foster care system, is called THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW (and yes I do have a chapter on Annie) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashion. Step two: Orphan acquires caretakers who...
bookshop.org
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d agoYou should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.
Some books have twists and turns that compel readers to keep coming back, Kristen Martin writes. She recommends six titles that need to be read twice:
Six Books You Should Read Twice
These titles’ twists and turns demand you take a second look.
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Horrific and harrowing news about Malayshia Alford, a 10-year-old Philadelphia girl. Her foster mother has been charged with her death. I want to know what "danger" DHS & judges ruled she was in with her mother that put her in this woman's house in the first place share.inquirer.com/ZcEDTu
Foster mom is charged with murder after police find body of missing 10-year-old girl in trunk of car in South Jersey
Malayshia Alford was living in foster care and was reported missing from the 500 block of North Simpson Street on Oct. 26. She was found dead overnight, sources said.
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Some books have twists and turns that compel readers to keep coming back, Kristen Martin writes. She recommends six titles that need to be read twice:
Six Books You Should Read Twice
These titles’ twists and turns demand you take a second look.
bit.ly
Some pleasure reading fodder for post-midterm result celebrating: for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about six books that deserve to be reread (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...
Six Books You Should Read Twice
These titles’ twists and turns demand you take a second look.
theatlantic.com
Some pleasure reading fodder for post-midterm result celebrating: for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about six books that deserve to be reread (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...
Six Books You Should Read Twice
These titles’ twists and turns demand you take a second look.
theatlantic.com
Lotta talk about how hard the time shift is for babies and pets and not enough acknowledgement of the struggles of very hungry caterpillar pregnant people* *yes I am at the end of my second trimester, baby girl coming in Feb!
A ~treat~: my revisionist history of orphanhood in America is on sale for $1.99 in ebook edition: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/krist... (deal also good at @bookshop.org!)
The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow by Kristen Martin | Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.
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A ~treat~: my revisionist history of orphanhood in America is on sale for $1.99 in ebook edition: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/krist... (deal also good at @bookshop.org!)
The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow by Kristen Martin | Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.
hachettebookgroup.com
You can get the ebook of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW for $1.99 right now, which is less than a king-size Snickers: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/krist...
The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow by Kristen Martin | Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.
hachettebookgroup.com
You can get the ebook of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW for $1.99 right now, which is less than a king-size Snickers: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/krist...
The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow by Kristen Martin | Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.
hachettebookgroup.com
I wrote about the end of Catapult defector.com/catapult-eli...
Catapult Elizabeth Koch Into The Sun | Defector
I don’t know if Elizabeth Koch would fashion herself a personal essayist, but she has certainly dabbled in the form. In an 11-part essay published in Smith Magazine in 2007, the billionaire’s daughter...
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I love Catapult, Counterpoint, & Soft Skull books, and have reviewed so many of them over the years, esp. titles editded by Kendall Storey & Dan Smetanka. Megan Fishmann & Lena Moses-Schmitt are truly superb publicists. I hope they all land somewhere that isn't some billionaire's plaything.
“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Catapult to Be Sold, End Operations
The independent publisher, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was told “continued empl...
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Truly gross that the billionaires will shut down a minor bit of their portfolio over union organizing, and equally gross that so many writers' books will be sold as "assets" while the press is shuttered. Sorry to the writers and workers involved. Fuck you to Elizabeth Koch and her Perception Boxes.
Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · 3w agoUh RIP Catapult?
This is the exact move my employer did last year, down to completing the sale while the vote was ongoing (they actually delayed the official vote until they knew the sale would go through). Very disappointing, and unnerving to know nothing about the fate of the backlist or indeed the frontlist
Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · 3w agoUh RIP Catapult?
When ER aired, did the way George Clooney treats parents go over well? BC damn does this character get off on scolding and calling CPS
We went to Boo at the Zoo today and a little boy was in a costume that evoked border patrol agent 😓
Writers! Feel overwhelmed by research? Want to turn reporting into art but you're either drowning in pdfs or losing track of what you've learned? I'm offering my class, From Research to Draft, next month. jaimegreen.net/classes
The well runneth dry, and I'm once again in need of writing & editing work. Criticism, reporting, copyediting, fact-checking, consulting—no job too big or too small. Here is but a glimmer of what I can do: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177... www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/t...
“It’s not that people don’t want nonfiction,” the editor says. “They cannot afford a hardcover; they wait a year for the paperback they can afford, and then [it] never comes. What are they supposed to do?” (le sigh)
Tajja Isen@tajjaisen.bsky.social · last mo.You may have heard that nonfiction's having a rough time. I investigated for @thewalrus.ca. And it's very true, but not for the reasons you might think. thewalrus.ca/nonfiction-i...
