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Kristen Iskandrian
@kristeniskandrian.bsky.social
55 followers 40 following 69 posts
writer co-owner of Thank You Books in Birmingham, AL
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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 5d
On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Lauren Ambrose performs @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social’s “Quantum Voicemail." Enjoy an excerpt of her reading here, and then listen to the full story wherever you get your podcasts! bit.ly/4mGUqQw
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 6d
some events are events & some events are sensual….this was right before I said “I love you” @tricialockwood.bsky.social
#smirnoff
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 6d
did miette voice for a full two minutes for @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social and the excellent people at thank you books in birmingham
woman reclines next to fluorescent cat poster as another woman holds her in a pieta same image except a box of cheezits is somehow more foregrounded
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 6d
quite a few homages to Thomas Bernhard these days….some may say…*too* many
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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 8d
On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Better With You?, actors Julie Benko and Lauren Ambrose perform stories by Kim Fu and @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/4mGUqQw
Headshot of Julie Benko. Headshot of Lauren Ambrose.
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 19d
it's time for us as a nation to force Billy Joel to write another verse of We Didn't Start the Fire
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 28d
"insane in retrospect but we're doing it" sums up @thankyoubooks.bsky.social very nicely 🧚
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 28d
here are the tour cards for my US stops! seems uh sort of insane in retrospect but we’re doing it
tour dates: brooklyn, DC, st. paul, new orleans, oxford, jackson tour dates: birmingham, atlanta, gainesville, st. pete’s, savannah, iowa city, chicago, minneapolis tour dates: st. louis, salt lake city, san francisco, portland, austin, charleston, seattle, miami, key west
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Sep 8
“Lily Allen” literature….does this have legs
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Sep 4
every book is like, she was a young damaged pupil…..he was a man of letters, if not principles…..
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 26
can’t explain it but this book is like Ace Ventura, a movie I’ve never seen
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 26
and then RSVP for this
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 26
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social all the way tf locked in for @tricialockwood.bsky.social !!!!

Preorder here:

thankyoubookshop.com/item/ZoOPMvN...
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 24
panning for new TYB tee ideas, & just landed on this one, courtesy Nathanael West: “She works in a bookstore, but wait’ll you see her behind.”
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 23
had a dream movies came out in paperback
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 22
one minute you’re rippin cigs in your boyfriend’s Pathfinder, amped on Fugazi, the next you’re in a minivan and it’s
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 1
maybe I should say my “main” hesitation…if you don’t like this one, I have others
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Aug 1
my only hesitation re autofiction is reserved for how it has trained readers to wonder if every novel is “true”
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Emily Tarr @emilytarr.bsky.social · Jul 2
CHEERS to @tricialockwood.bsky.social (in convo w/ @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social) at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social, 3 months from today!!!! 🥂
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 28
yep need one
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 27
sure, yes, this was mostly a joke
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 26
or it's "The Milliner of Weimar"
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 26
😭😘
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 25
the Lester Bangs of the cereal aisle.....does this have legs
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 25
every book of historical fiction is like, deep on a boat, inside of a map, inscribed by an apothecarist, abandoned by a silent film star, lies the secret of the original Tome
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 25
will also accept Nuts McGillicuddy
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · Jun 25
the universal name for someone who's being insane is Crazy McNutts, I think we can all agree
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