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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 38m

It’s not just for Halloween!!

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 45m

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 15h

Is it too much to ask, in this profoundly shitty year, to allow my pug to go as one Ben Stiller’s children in the Royal Tenenbaums this Halloween? We needed this win!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 15h

I am furious that Adidas’s new pet collection is only available in China and I don’t care who knows it.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you for this very helpful and very depressing explainer. The only space businesses seem to be willing to keep open these days is for AI data centers.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18h

We'd be interested in talking about forming a consortium to fundraise for this, and to contribute our progress so far on ebook sales. I wrote about the dangers recently here:

www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote about two excellent novels, and also summarized a few great deals that have nothing to do with Amazon Prime Days. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 75

What I read this week Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa It's been more than a decade since the New York Times ran this piece about the plight of nail salon workers, but I think of it every t...

www.themarisreview.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 19h

I’ll take it. Thank you!!

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 19h

I figured!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 19h

Many many times I’ve contemplated starting my own literary publication or imprint, but this is the first that’s got me fantasizing about being a book distributor.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

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.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

Ugh

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 21h

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

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.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote about two excellent novels, and also summarized a few great deals that have nothing to do with Amazon Prime Days. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 75

What I read this week Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa It's been more than a decade since the New York Times ran this piece about the plight of nail salon workers, but I think of it every t...

www.themarisreview.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

as if libraries don't already have enough to deal with

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

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.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 4d

THE LINK IS LIFE:

www.today.com/video/how-sq...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this big boy, arriving just in time for spooky season.

Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski is 1200+ pages and I am ready

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a good blog: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

My very first gift guide appearance, if you wanna stuff a stocking or two... Along with @thedennemichele.bsky.social.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Fresh insights on race and gender, sex and power, and love and loss will give readers plenty to chew on.

Both/And

Edited by Denne Michele Norris (HarperOne) $27.99

In this stunning anthology, Norris, editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, brings together 17 essays on trans life in America, by writers such as Akwaeke Emezi and Raquel Willis. Across the collection, the complex and multifaceted experiences of trans people of color are rendered vividly, and the pieces urge political action in the present while offering a beacon of hope for a more just future.

Want to Burn This Place Down

Maris Kreizman (Ecco) $26.99

“In a country plagued by problems in which individual grit is not nearly enough to prevail over rotten systems,” Lit Hub columnist Kreizman writes, “working hard begins to feel more like a Sisyphean task than a practical solution.” Tempering her anger with wryness and lots of Xennial nostalgia, Kreizman bucks the stereotypical trend of growing more conservative with age with this fierce and witty collection.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 3d

Yes phew

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 3d

He got off in Trenton, thank goodness

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 3d

Guy on train observed me injecting insulin, asked if Ozempic works, then told me about his friend at work who has diabetes but he doesn’t take care of it and eats whatever he wants.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5d

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years

www.mediamatters.org

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 4d

haha!

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