Kimberly Burns

@kimberlyburns.bsky.social

Literary Publicist / Cheerleader Proud co-founder Broadside PR Native Californian in New York

Today’s layoffs hit the journalists who do the most and get the least credit. The editors, the copy desk, the page designers, the librarian and archivist, the news assistants. My editor led our immigration coverage during Operation Metro Surge and they just…let her go.

Star Tribune Guild@startribuneguild.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Editors, fact-checkers, designers and news assistants at the Minnesota Star Tribune are losing their jobs today. Anything you can donate to help our laid-off journalists is greatly appreciated. Can’t donate? Share this post to boost our efforts.

Smart @bookpostusa.bsky.social piece on the value of reviewing beyond selling books. "A review that has charm and energy, that beguilingly advocates for the life of the mind, makes a case not only for or against the book in question but for being a reader." books.substack.com/p/notebook-o...

Notebook: On Reviewing

I wrote this Notebook for “Viva la Book Review,” a nonprofit that supports book reviews in print, digital, and audio media.

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I’m very happy for Gilbert but I do want to keep in mind that these lists they’re talking about do not involve any pay for participants. This is crowd sourcing from culture experts, many of whom are under employed right now.

Gilbert Cruz
Departs 'NYTBR' for New 'NYT'
Role
Jun 05, 2026
Gilbert Cruz, who has led the New York Times Book Review since 2022, will step down from the paper's book section to take on the newly created role of "canon editor," in which he will lead a new department tasked with developing
"canon and signature lists," according to an announcement by Times executive editor Joe Kahn and managing editors
Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan.
The canon team, the trio said, will be "dedicated to expanding our embrace of those moments when we invite experts and readers alike to help us declare the definitive works in a given discipline."
The announcement lauded Cruz as "the first to realize the potential in creating definitive catalogs of culture when he and the Books desk published the '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' package in collaboration with The Upshot two years ago."
NYTBR deputy editor Tina Jordan will serve as interim editor while the paper searches for Cruz's successor "in the coming months."

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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“Another enormous release day. Where is the benign millionaire who will fund a new book criticism publication so that more of these books will get coverage? Where are you??? Were you at the Met Gala last night looking stupid?” Go @maris.bsky.social Go! www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 103

This week's theme is the excesses of girlhood What I read this week Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez It's been a long time since a novel has captured a particular time and a place with s...

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