Maris Kreizman

Maris Kreizman

@maris.bsky.social

Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down https://www.themarisreview.com/ https://www.mariskreizman.com/

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Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

Gonna be bitchy for a sec: that piece in GQ about the future of books contains quotes from both some of the best minds in publishing and also... some other ones too.

Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

Waiting eagerly for the reckoning. Give us a reckoning. We deserve a reckoning.

Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Billionaires, too. And maybe some chickenshit law firms and universities. Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comPowerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning.Firms that aligned with the president are preparing for a political pendulum swing — and a potential barrage of investigations.
Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

If James Talarico loses next month blame it all on me. I live in New York and have nothing to do with Texas, but I have ignored his what I estimate is approximately 433 texts asking me for money. So.

Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

I love my partner so much that I have abstained from seeing You Can See Everything until he has room in schedule to see it too. Love involves struggle and sacrifice.

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Ryan Estrada
@ryanestrada.com

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Florida Freedom to Read Project@flfreedomread.bsky.social

Palm Beach pulled 1800+ titles from its school library collections because AI flagged them for review. Media specialists and principals must sign attestation forms verifying their libraries are compliant with vague law. None of this is normal. freedomtoreadproject.substack.com/p/when-ai-de...

freedomtoreadproject.substack.comWhen AI Decides Which Books Deserve SuspicionImagine being a school librarian and receiving a list of books that must be reviewed for possible violations of state law.

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Authors Against Book Bans
@authorsabb.bsky.social

Readers of #BookSky. We give to you! The new AABB website! (OK, you don't have to be as excited as we are, but still give it a look.) We've improved a few things including...

authorsagainstbookbans.orgAuthors Against Book BansAuthors Against Book Bans (AABB) is a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book creators working to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national (USA) and local levels. Our network of book creators works in conjunction with a variety of national and state-level organizations and grassroots freedom-to-read groups to mount effective, coordinated responses to book bans and other threats to the freedom to read.
Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

Here’s a me thing: I walked by Arundhati Roy earlier today and she was in the middle of lunch so I didn’t want to bother her but also my heart was racing as if she was Harry Styles.

Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

publishersweekly.comCatapult to Be Sold, End OperationsThe independent publisher, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was told “continued empl...

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston
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Annnnndddddddd, now Riverwork is out of stock in Cambridge! We should get more soon. I've added Said the Dead from absolute genius Doireann Ni Ghriofa, coincidentally featured on @maris.bsky.social newsletter this week!

portersquarebooks.comSaid the DeadFrom the award-winning author of A Ghost in the Throat comes a time-traversing, form-defying, genre-morphing story of a reader unraveling the legacies of a fabled asylum and the women who haunt its halls. In Cork, Ireland, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she nears the place. In another time, she might have found herself held within those walls.She notices a sign, the first of many. Guided by an irresistible impulse, she follows them. FOR SALE. The letter L, broken free from a pane of stained glass. Whispers from the river. She trespasses, steals, absconds from the routines of her life—mother, spouse, daughter—as she hears a chorus of insistent voices. They murmur from archives, old casebooks that recorded their progress and failures—no change. They slip through stairwells and walls. They are the women who knew this place best, and with them—with one in particular—she feels a connection. She is drawn out; she knocks on a door in the night. Will this investigation, this journey, this haunting, take her too far into the past or will it bring her to a new understanding of what she might yet make of the future? A work of intense attention and tenderness, Doireann Ní Ghríofa's Said the Dead breaks boundaries between past and present, the imagined and real, history and fiction, to make something new and lasting. An investigation into the dangers of knowing our selves and the past, it is an experience like no other—a ghost story and a reclamation.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social

Had to restock Riverwork!

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Drew
@dschnoeb.bsky.social

More importantly, those sales teams have shrunk down significantly while lists grow so there’s actually no time for these teams to read and recommend like they could even 5 years ago. Sales teams in publishing have to sell hundreds of titles every year with very little time or information.

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social

I spoke about corporate consolidation and how sales teams across imprints are told which books to prioritize. And also book coverage in general interest outlets -- where once these publications were tastemakers, now they want to talk about a book only once everyone's already talking about it.

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Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

I wrote about two books that appropriate the lives of the dead, but in really cool ways. Also, Bookshop caught some undeserved flack due to Meta's sneaky use of AI. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

themarisreview.comThe Maris Review, vol 127The theme of the week is resurrecting the dead in service of authorial appropriation, but in a really, really good way What I read this week Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa This book. This bo...
Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

I spoke about corporate consolidation and how sales teams across imprints are told which books to prioritize. And also book coverage in general interest outlets -- where once these publications were tastemakers, now they want to talk about a book only once everyone's already talking about it.

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Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

How did we all go from “selling out is the worst thing you can do” to “well, I don’t think this company is actively killing anyone and I desperately need health insurance”? Rhetorical question; I know how.

Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

Q: do we know who runs the website where you choose the 9 books that have stuck with you the most? Like, I love this stuff but I don't want to find out it exists in order for Amazon to sharpen its algorithm.

Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

You think journalism is dead and then a zillion publications send reporters to Brooklyn Heights to look at the animatronic bird. Really makes you think.

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Jaya Saxena
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Huge, incredible, lifechanging news: We have an essay on @weareravenous.com from the one and only @nikostratis.com, about that emo album Wendy's put out www.weareravenous.com/wendys-emo-a...

weareravenous.comWendy’s Is Trading on Millennial Nostalgia With EmoWendy's released an EP, 'Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot,' with a slew of emo heavy-hitters. It hopes to cash in on your memories of eating a Frosty after you were dumped.
Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

I love the trailer for the Sylvester Stallone movie because it feels like the guy impersonating Sly is doing his best Elizabeth Holmes impression. It's perfect.