Kimberly Burns
@kimberlyburns.bsky.social
Literary Publicist / Cheerleader
Proud co-founder Broadside PR
Native Californian in New York
Proud co-founder Broadside PR
Native Californian in New York
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We're giving away 100 copies of this cozy spooky gem, LOST SOULS MEET UNDER A FULL MOON, perfect for BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY readers!
https://bit.ly/3JDLe1H No purch. nec. US res. 18+ 10/26-11/25.
https://bit.ly/3JDLe1H No purch. nec. US res. 18+ 10/26-11/25.
Book giveaway for Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (The Go-Between, #1) by Mizuki Tsujimura Oct 26-Nov 25, 2025
Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 26-Nov 25, 2025. We're giving away 100 copies of this cozy spooky gem, perfect for...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We're giving away 100 copies of this cozy spooky gem, LOST SOULS MEET UNDER A FULL MOON, perfect for BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY readers!
https://bit.ly/3JDLe1H No purch. nec. US res. 18+ 10/26-11/25.
https://bit.ly/3JDLe1H No purch. nec. US res. 18+ 10/26-11/25.
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Awesome development…Scientists just cut HIV out of immune cells using CRISPR. And the cells stayed HIV-free even after re-exposure.👏👏👏👏👏
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Awesome development…Scientists just cut HIV out of immune cells using CRISPR. And the cells stayed HIV-free even after re-exposure.👏👏👏👏👏
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As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/as-t...
As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even…
www.niemanlab.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/as-t...
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Whenever one of my friends gets a good gig in media I get so happy, because it feels increasingly rare to see good people get hired as opposed to truly ridiculously unqualified people who have a lot of money and/or some kind of ethically unsound relationship to those in power
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Whenever one of my friends gets a good gig in media I get so happy, because it feels increasingly rare to see good people get hired as opposed to truly ridiculously unqualified people who have a lot of money and/or some kind of ethically unsound relationship to those in power
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"This was not the first hallucinated quote [the EIC] introduced into a reporter’s story draft." www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"This was not the first hallucinated quote [the EIC] introduced into a reporter’s story draft." www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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I always prefer listening to memoirs and personal essay books, because I think the author’s literal voice gives so much to their written one.
And never has been truer than with @maris.bsky.social great new book, because she also cracks herself up, and you can hear it! 💛
And never has been truer than with @maris.bsky.social great new book, because she also cracks herself up, and you can hear it! 💛
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I always prefer listening to memoirs and personal essay books, because I think the author’s literal voice gives so much to their written one.
And never has been truer than with @maris.bsky.social great new book, because she also cracks herself up, and you can hear it! 💛
And never has been truer than with @maris.bsky.social great new book, because she also cracks herself up, and you can hear it! 💛
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In our house my wife is the dad, I’m the mom, and I think we’re doing a pretty great job raising our daughter that way. www.thecut.com/article/find...
Finding Motherhood in Fatherhood
When I became a dad, I realized that to be the parent I wanted to be, I actually had to become a mom — my idea of what a mom is — first.
www.thecut.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In our house my wife is the dad, I’m the mom, and I think we’re doing a pretty great job raising our daughter that way. www.thecut.com/article/find...
Heartbroken by the state if US media? Me too. Read @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social for some necessary sanity open.substack.com/pub/glynnism...
'You Want Those People Whose Taste is Confident'
some rare, possibly ruinous, thoughts on media
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Heartbroken by the state if US media? Me too. Read @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social for some necessary sanity open.substack.com/pub/glynnism...
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I had the great good fortune to work with Lucy Feldman and her team on TIME's "100 Must-Read Books 2025," the perfect holidays gift list for bibliophiles in your lives: time.com/collections/...
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Discover the novels, memoirs, biographies, and more that entertained and enlightened us
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I had the great good fortune to work with Lucy Feldman and her team on TIME's "100 Must-Read Books 2025," the perfect holidays gift list for bibliophiles in your lives: time.com/collections/...
The track is a killer. I hate it.
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
The Publishing Industry Gambled on Me… and Lost
Eight years ago, when I sold two books to an imprint of a Big Five, I was on top of the world. I was thirty-one and eight weeks pregnant, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. My agent s…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The track is a killer. I hate it.
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
Authors, read this from Maria Kunetsova @literaryhub.bsky.social
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My 2nd deal as an agent. I've been reading Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander's work since my late teens and am over the moon about working with him.
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My 2nd deal as an agent. I've been reading Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander's work since my late teens and am over the moon about working with him.
Excellent from @espiers.bsky.social It’s Not Just Cuomo Who Lost. It’s Cuomoism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | It’s Not Just Cuomo Who Lost. It’s Cuomoism.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Excellent from @espiers.bsky.social It’s Not Just Cuomo Who Lost. It’s Cuomoism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
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Thank you Wall Street Journal!!
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thank you Wall Street Journal!!
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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“When I unveil your portrait to society it will achieve such acclaim that your family will see this as an embarrassing overreaction and not speak of it again.”
The Life of a Muse Is No Life at All - Electric Literature
“Sophy” by Alysandra Dutton, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
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November 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“When I unveil your portrait to society it will achieve such acclaim that your family will see this as an embarrassing overreaction and not speak of it again.”
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Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
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Erin Somers, journalist and author of the novel 'Stay Up With Hugo Best,' has given us one of the best marriage novels of the decade with 'The Ten Year Affair.' defector.com/erin-somers-...
Erin Somers On The State Of Literary Fiction, Hudson Valley Life, And Reviving The Infidelity Novel | Defector
In recent years, the literary marriage novel has taken a backseat to the literary divorce novel, the novel of interpersonal discontent and cynicism, with forms like autofiction sometimes used as a…
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October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Erin Somers, journalist and author of the novel 'Stay Up With Hugo Best,' has given us one of the best marriage novels of the decade with 'The Ten Year Affair.' defector.com/erin-somers-...
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It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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It’s really devastating to see the devaluation of so many things (reading, writing, critical thinking) that I have always thought were paramount.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s really devastating to see the devaluation of so many things (reading, writing, critical thinking) that I have always thought were paramount.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Good to have these foundations step up for literary arts.
Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.
www.mellon.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good to have these foundations step up for literary arts.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.