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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 9d

Thank you NYT 🙏

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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 1d

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

Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

It ain’t good…

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

“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...

granta.com

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 4d

JOB! The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hiring an arts reporter:
jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/gannet...

Job Details | Dayforce Jobs

Find your next adventure

jobs.dayforcehcm.com

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 9d

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 · 11d

It actually severely disappointed. Fix your ref problem!

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 11d

Cathy Englebert has to go. @wnba.com

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 14d

😍📚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 · 15d

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NPR @npr.org · 15d

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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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 19d

Attn Writers: Willem Marx talks to Peter Orner for @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/writing-the-...

Writing the Story You’ve Sat on for Fifteen Years - Electric Literature

Peter Orner discusses the writing life and the evolution of his work since his Recommended Reading story, "At the Fairmont"

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 20d

Whatcha reading?

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 20d

(I’m not the flack) Berlin 00’s. Absolute pleasure www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

I Make Envy on Your Disco - Nebraska Press

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction"A funny and moving debut."—Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post“A love letter to Berlin, to travel, a...

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Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · Aug 31

Your Sunday long read ☀️: Novelist Peter Orner used our 2007 profile of Irv Kupcinet in his research for 'The Gossip Columnist's Daughter'. The piece ran after the legendary Chicago Sun-Times gossip columnist passed away, exploring his six decades of work. buff.ly/RMD2H7e

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 29d

It's gratifying to see people actually talking about the value of criticism, saddening that it's because people are losing their jobs, and frustrating that I can't talk publicly about big parts of it because it involves my own workplace. But one thing I can say (I think!) is...

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 29d

I hate to be a contrarian, but for small and midsize publishers like us, reviews in major newspapers do sell books!

screenshot of ingram, where every warehouse is out of a book after it was reviewed in the nyt

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