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 / kristenmartin.net
Which one of you was looking for book recs about adoption the other day?
Kristen Martin@kwistent.bsky.social · yesterdayIt’s my birthday! Perhaps you’d like to buy my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW, or check it out from your library, or add/rate/review it on Goodreads or Storygraph! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
It’s my birthday! Perhaps you’d like to buy my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW, or check it out from your library, or add/rate/review it on Goodreads or Storygraph! 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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This happened to me with Vulture last year. I was hired to cover a day-long TV event (on a Sunday, no less) here in Nashville. I spent 8 hours at the event, then went home and wrote a 1500-word piece overnight because they wanted to post it the next day. Then the editor kept putting me off. (cont.)
Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 5d agoWell, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
This should NOT be the experience of freelancers anywhere, nevertheless at a publication as respected as Vulture! But this sort of thing is also what collective action is made for — freelancers, come join @fspnwu.bsky.social where culture critics are building power for better conditions!
Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 5d agoALSO this isn’t just about me. I’ve talked to other freelancers (names you know) who’ve had similar experiences: work written and filed, doesn’t run, they don’t get paid. And we say nothing because we’re powerless, and like five people own all the outlets, so you’re never just burning one bridge.
Please get in touch if you’d like to join the cultural critics group at the Freelance Solidarity Project. We have to look out for one another. open.substack.com/pub/freelanc...
A Statement on Industry-Wide Cuts to Cultural Criticism
2025 has been a year of devastating disinvestment across arts and culture criticism.
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Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 5d agoWell, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
In my first for @bloomberg.com, I wrote about Kimon de Greef's THE EGO TRIP and the perils of plunging too quickly into the deep end of psychedelics. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Toad Medicine Boom Was Built on a Myth
Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip reveals how a fabricated origin story, a self-styled guru and a powerful psychedelic combined to launch a global phenomenon.
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In my first for @bloomberg.com, I wrote about Kimon de Greef's THE EGO TRIP and the perils of plunging too quickly into the deep end of psychedelics. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Toad Medicine Boom Was Built on a Myth
Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip reveals how a fabricated origin story, a self-styled guru and a powerful psychedelic combined to launch a global phenomenon.
bloomberg.com
I’m back at @npr.org today with a review of Pamela Colloff’s masterful CATCH THE DEVIL, a damning look at our criminal legal system through the lens of one murder case and the trail of harm carved by one jailhouse witness—with the collusion of the state: www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...
A teen was murdered in 1985. A new book tracks the case through a broken legal system
Catch the Devil by journalist Pamela Colloff highlights the potentially fatal consequences of a system more concerned with securing convictions than determining the truth and delivering justice.
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Journalist Pamela Colloff has written an engrossing and damning book on how the case of the 1985 killing of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio played out. n.pr/4vRrvOo
'Catch the Devil' is a work of true crime that indicts the justice system
Journalist Pamela Colloff has written an engrossing and damning book on how the case of the 1985 killing of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio played out.
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I’m back at @npr.org today with a review of Pamela Colloff’s masterful CATCH THE DEVIL, a damning look at our criminal legal system through the lens of one murder case and the trail of harm carved by one jailhouse witness—with the collusion of the state: www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...
A teen was murdered in 1985. A new book tracks the case through a broken legal system
Catch the Devil by journalist Pamela Colloff highlights the potentially fatal consequences of a system more concerned with securing convictions than determining the truth and delivering justice.
npr.org
@samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social discusses her anthology “Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection” ( @beaconpress.bsky.social, 2026) featuring essays and interviews on the many possibilities for communal living with writer @kwistent.bsky.social. bit.ly/4bMgXbP
BOMB Magazine | Samantha Paige Rosen by Kristen Martin
Essays and interviews on the many possibilities for communal living.
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Thanks so much to @alexsteed.bsky.social for having me on to talk ANNIE, my least favorite orphan character whom I have nevertheless written many, many words on. Podcast link here: www.podpage.com/you-are-good/
You Are Good
You Are Good is a feelings podcast about movies hosted by Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed.
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You Are Good@youaregood.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW EPISODE! Leapin' Lizards! In which we unpack all of the aspirational feelings of Annie with @danijanae.bsky.social and attempt to wrap our heads around the one-hundred year history of America's favorite "little orphan" with @kwistent.bsky.social!
Damning shit for this absolute fool share.inquirer.com/UROPEe
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has more support among Pa. Republicans than GOP Sen. Dave McCormick, new poll shows
Just under half of Pennsylvania's registered voters approve of how Fetterman is handling his job, but a vast majority of his support came from Republicans, according to a new poll.
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Thanks so much to @alexsteed.bsky.social for having me on to talk ANNIE, my least favorite orphan character whom I have nevertheless written many, many words on. Podcast link here: www.podpage.com/you-are-good/
You Are Good
You Are Good is a feelings podcast about movies hosted by Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed.
podpage.com
You Are Good@youaregood.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW EPISODE! Leapin' Lizards! In which we unpack all of the aspirational feelings of Annie with @danijanae.bsky.social and attempt to wrap our heads around the one-hundred year history of America's favorite "little orphan" with @kwistent.bsky.social!
NEW EPISODE! Leapin' Lizards! In which we unpack all of the aspirational feelings of Annie with @danijanae.bsky.social and attempt to wrap our heads around the one-hundred year history of America's favorite "little orphan" with @kwistent.bsky.social!
For a story: Did you participate in Pizza Hut's BOOK-IT! program? I'd love to talk to you about it for a story on the program being back this summer. If your child is participating in BOOK IT! this year, I'd love to speak with you, too. DMs open, rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20
Happy #PublicationDay, @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social! 🏘️ LIVING, TOGETHER, an anthology on found family, hacking adulthood, and other lessons communal living teaches us about the future of US housing, is “rigorous, funny, authentic, and informative.” — @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
Main diff so far is that on ER they are obsessed with letting loved ones and sometimes random children watch traumatic procedures through open windows, curtains, etc
Kristen Martin@kwistent.bsky.social · 4w agoWe’ve been watching season one of ER and they really just recycled a lot of storylines for the Pitt
We’ve been watching season one of ER and they really just recycled a lot of storylines for the Pitt
In print in the July/August issue of @newrepublic.com, and now online: my review of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s brilliant book Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young newrepublic.com/article/2117...
In print in the July/August issue of @newrepublic.com, and now online: my review of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s brilliant book Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young newrepublic.com/article/2117...
This will be the final time you can ever see my second feature INCORRECTIONAL. By the way, if you have some sort of platform and are down for an interview, I'm open. Would love to get this out there and give the movie one last chance to be heard.
chris bell@christopherbell.bsky.social · last mo.Incorrectional: A Memorial Service Sunday, August 16 7:30 pm Roxy Cinema www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/i...
Writers who use a lot of research: Scrivener for Creative Writers is back! July 12, 1:30pm ET, recording will be up for two weeks. Student discount available! jaimegreen.net/classes
I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!
Where did the abortion rights movement go wrong—and what can it learn from the strategies of antiabortion activists?
Autopsying Abortion Rights | Kristen Martin
It has been four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Where should the abortion rights movement go from here?
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I gotta hand it to the AI grifters, I loled at this one
