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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 1d

Attn Writers: Apply for LitCamp! With two great agents, three great writers…and, uh, me! www.litcampwriters.org/our-spring-c...

Our Writers Conference | litcampwriters

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 1d

Readers! What would we do without @roncharles.bsky.social? I never want to find out. He’s written a masterpiece of a newsletter today: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

Book Club: To understand our divided America, she started with her hometown

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 1d

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Ican Klíma obituary

Czech novelist and playwright whose work was banned under communism

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 1d

Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles @jonnydiamond.bsky.social includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.

Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.

One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the N…

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 2d

2025 Kirkus Prize winners! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize Revealed | Kirkus Reviews

Lucas Schaefer, Scott Anderson, and Thao Lam took home this year’s awards.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 2d

Hugely honored to see THE SLIP win the 2025 Kirkus Prize in fiction. Thank you, Kirkus!

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 3d

It was a great night to celebrate books and authors! Huzzah for the 2025 Kirkus Prize winners! apnews.com/article/kirk...

Kirkus Prize winners include a novel on identity, a history of Iran and an ode to belly buttons

Kirkus Prize judges have announced their winners for this year, awarding $50,000 in each of three categories.

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Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you NYT 🙏

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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 8d

I feel very lucky that I got to talk about my Homeland-Security-mass-detention-Asian-American book on The Daily Show

Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Justin Carroll-Allan @jcarrollallan.bsky.social · 4d

Every time I hear "burrata" I'll think of this.
Incredible story.

Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 4d

New story by me in Granta today about inept swingers on the Hudson Valley granta.com/pleasantries...

Pleasantries

‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...

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Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you Vulture 🙏
www.vulture.com/article/new-...

7 New Books You Should Read This October

Thomas Pynchon’s account of rising fascism, a millennial cheating novel, and a memoir from a James Beard winner.

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 4d

It ain’t good…

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 4d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 4d

Right? I haven’t loved a short story so much in ages. It’s _perfect._

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 4d

A thought I keep having: what if I just log off all social media and subscribe to a few paper magazines and newspapers instead

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 4d

“At seven o’clock in the evening, Gideon and Phoebe stuck a list of emergency contacts to the fridge, gave their sitter the usual spiel about bedtime, beseeched their kids to please, for God’s sake be good, and left to go have sex with the neighbors.” @somers.bsky.social in @grantamag.bsky.social 🔥

Pleasantries

‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 5d

This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:

The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.

Why does this matter?

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 7d

JOB! The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hiring an arts reporter:
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Job Details | Dayforce Jobs

Find your next adventure

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 8d

I love this so much!

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Washington D.C. - Bijan Robinson has been selected as the Week 5 NFL Players
Association (NFLPA) Community MVP after hosting a book fair for more than 7,700 kids in Atlanta.
After learning nearly 70 percent of third-and fourth-grade Atlanta students were reading below proficient level, the Atlanta Falcons running back felt compelled to do his part in addressing the growing literacy rate crisis. On September 23, Robinson welcomed students from more than 35
elementary schools in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) district to Mercedes Benz
Stadium for a memorable event.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9d

If you work at CBS News and have anything you'd like to share, please text me on Signal premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected

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Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social · 12d

Thrilled to announce a dream collaboration dreamed up by me and Adam Biles: @yalereview.bsky.social + @shakespeareandcompany.com .Together, we’ll publish author conversations from the legendary Paris bookshop—beginning with Neige Sinno on her extraordinary Sad Tiger. yalereview.org/article/shak...

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad…

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 14d

It actually severely disappointed. Fix your ref problem!

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 14d

Cathy Englebert has to go. @wnba.com

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 17d

😍📚A Shop for Black Women Who Love Women Who Love Books www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

A Shop for Black Women Who Love Women Who Love Books

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 18d

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NPR @npr.org · 18d

The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

New books this week: Tales from Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, and new translations

The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly translated works by France's Annie Ernaux and Japanese ex-pat Yoko Tawada.

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