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Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social
Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down

https://www.themarisreview.com/

https://www.mariskreizman.com/
If you’re “alarmed” that the mayor elect says you shouldn’t violate international law, maybe the problem is you. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
At least this AI scammer admits that they only engaged with the description of my book? I appreciate the honesty.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Seeing I Want to Burn This Place Down on this list is a big honor. Thanks, @electricliterature.com! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit’s Best Nonfiction of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Edgar Gomez, Maris Kreizman, and Zefyr Lisowski are among the year's most celebrated nonfiction
electricliterature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposting my 2018 piece about year end lists for anyone who needs it (me!). www.damemagazine.com/2018/12/19/i...
It’s Time to Reconsider the Best-Of List - Dame Magazine
The piles of books and galleys that clutter my apartment are overwhelming. This is not a humble brag—more of a cry for help. I’m a culture writer and critic who is deeply entrenched in the book world....
www.damemagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“This is a self-moderated panel and we’re not scared.”
—Karen Russell, with Katie Kitamura and Tricia Lockwood
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Trump was nicer to Zohran than Chuck Schumer.
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?

TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Off to the Miami Book Fair, hoping that my hotel for the weekend isn’t hosting an anti-vax conference!!
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I wrote about the anti-vax conference that was taking place at my hotel during the Texas Book Festival. lithub.com/amid-the-mah...
Amid the MAHA Anti-Vaxxers at the Texas Book Festival
When I walked into the hotel lobby the first person I saw was a woman with enormous lips wearing a T-shirt that said BAN ASSAULT VACCINES. Wow, Austin really has changed, I thought. I used to come …
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I wasn’t kidding
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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“The tentpole event of the conference was a conversation between Hines and accused rapist Russell Brand, who is currently out on bail (his trial is scheduled for June 2026 in the UK) and who I saw entering the hotel wearing just a bathrobe.”

This is deftly written, funny but also packs a punch.
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I wrote about the anti-vax conference that was taking place at my hotel during the Texas Book Festival. lithub.com/amid-the-mah...
Amid the MAHA Anti-Vaxxers at the Texas Book Festival
When I walked into the hotel lobby the first person I saw was a woman with enormous lips wearing a T-shirt that said BAN ASSAULT VACCINES. Wow, Austin really has changed, I thought. I used to come …
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“It’s hard to think in celebratory terms when I’ve written a book about a genocide.” We thank you, Omar El Alkad.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Jeff Hiller is telling us how in the first printing of his memoir there was a typo on the cover??? Oof.
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“Bissinger did little to quell those rumors; he yelled at me, then hung up on me, when reached by phone, and later told the New York Times that while he provided the template for Unfettered, it was Fetterman who delivered the content. “The book is John’s,” he said.” defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that  he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he w...
defector.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Cracking myself up simply by imagining the inputs that would yield such covers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
These Books Were Judged by Their A.I. Covers, and Disqualified
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Reading Nuzzi’s glossy tale of woe told from a Mustang in Malibu while there are so many talented, ethical journalists struggling to make ends meet is an indictment of how far this profession has fallen to elite control. Success has become more of a riddle than a road map.
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Okay, the AI book marketing scammers are now sending art.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Trying to remind myself that this is good news. They are buying their way into the Met Gala, not taking over all of Conde Nast.
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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! 💛
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I'm excited to get all dressed up and go to the National Book Awards on Wednesday to complain to other people in person rather than online!!
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I know I live in a media bubble, so I ventured outside of it to look up the book we've all been talking about and we're far from the bestseller zone.
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It is fascinating to me how many different kinds of scams aimed at authors exist these days, given that most of us are broke. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam
Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM