Kristen Iskandrian
@kristeniskandrian.bsky.social
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writer co-owner of Thank You Books in Birmingham, AL
you heard it here first
15 days ago
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Really tired of containing multitudes. Ready to contain 1-2 things, max
15 days ago
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Romaine Brooks’s women
16 days ago
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happy pub day to
@somers.bsky.social
! cc
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social
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The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers
October's Signed First Edition Club pick at Thank You Books
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristeniskandrian/p/the-ten-year-affair-by-erin-somers?r=2m2as&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
16 days ago
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reposted by
Kristen Iskandrian
Symphony Space
about 1 month ago
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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some events are events & some events are sensual….this was right before I said “I love you”
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#smirnoff
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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quite a few homages to Thomas Bernhard these days….some may say…*too* many
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Kristen Iskandrian
Symphony Space
about 1 month ago
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
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it's time for us as a nation to force Billy Joel to write another verse of We Didn't Start the Fire
about 2 months ago
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"insane in retrospect but we're doing it" sums up
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social
very nicely đź§š
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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“Lily Allen” literature….does this have legs
about 2 months ago
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every book is like, she was a young damaged pupil…..he was a man of letters, if not principles…..
2 months ago
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can’t explain it but this book is like Ace Ventura, a movie I’ve never seen
2 months ago
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@thankyoubooks.bsky.social
all the way tf locked in for
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!!!! Preorder here:
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2 months ago
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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.”
2 months ago
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had a dream movies came out in paperback
3 months ago
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one minute you’re rippin cigs in your boyfriend’s Pathfinder, amped on Fugazi, the next you’re in a minivan and it’s
3 months ago
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my only hesitation re autofiction is reserved for how it has trained readers to wonder if every novel is “true”
3 months ago
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reposted by
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Emily Tarr
4 months ago
CHEERS to
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
(in convo w/
@kristeniskandrian.bsky.social
) at
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social
, 3 months from today!!!! 🥂
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the Lester Bangs of the cereal aisle.....does this have legs
4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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the universal name for someone who's being insane is Crazy McNutts, I think we can all agree
4 months ago
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market terms for when a book’s so good you know it’ll do numbers but also when a book’s so bad you know it’ll do numbers…same term with a different prefix maybe…
5 months ago
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a short essay about being 1st gen & the nebulae of "voice"
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Where does voice come from?
on language, foreignness, & eavesdropping
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristeniskandrian/p/where-does-voice-come-from?r=2m2as&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
5 months ago
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why is every online writing class like "Dog-Eared: Writing Dogs (and Their Ears) To Get an Agent"
5 months ago
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sometimes you have to let the ppl know that Stoner is not about a stoner and Sister Carrie is not about a nun
5 months ago
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ah I see this year we get not one but two teen girl bathing suit categories: OnlyFans and Big Ruche
5 months ago
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The 1000 Words of Summerification of the Contemporary American Novel: in this essay I will
5 months ago
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“I have a deep suspicion of women who claim to be able to remove stains. Either they’re lying or there’s something not quite right at home.”—Marlen Haushofer, Killing Stella (tr. Shaun Whiteside)
5 months ago
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Yiyun Li is a national treasure, here are some inadequate thoughts on her latest
kristeniskandrian.substack.com/p/things-in-...
5 months ago
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I’m a crier, it’s true, but I cried at an Alice Notley reading, b/c I knew I was in the presence of genius, & b/c her work seemed to come from some harrowing beyond that she was showing us the lit corners of, the lighted exits
6 months ago
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I love how ppl who “hate musical theater” see their kid in a play for the first time & go full Pippin
6 months ago
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hastening to complete my little tasks so that I can dive back into a chair with The Ten Year Affair by
@somers.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Last night, Kevin Wilson filled
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social
with love & laughter. My two favorite things!
6 months ago
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it’s Saturday, you know what to do: be stressed languorously
6 months ago
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Didion, self-help, and the organizing principle, not in that order
NOTES TO JOHN is an astonishing parenting manual
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristeniskandrian/p/didion-self-help-and-the-organizing?r=2m2as&utm_medium=ios
6 months ago
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an “organizing principle”…many books lack this, to their detriment, I feel
6 months ago
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We come to this place
to do what, exactly
https://kristeniskandrian.substack.com/p/we-come-to-this-place
6 months ago
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it’ll be tempting, but don’t give the ppl u love artisanal hot chocolate, no matter how handsome the package….its home is the trash
6 months ago
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enjoying Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier for similes like “her irony was as faintly acrid as a caraway seed” and zingers such as “she bolted with a bookie from Bray”
6 months ago
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When I tell you to read a book that ripped my heart out? That’s a wreckommendation
6 months ago
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unfortunately all day & for no reason I have been saying to myself 'the goss is hot but the tea is milky'
6 months ago
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a partial reading list of books that brilliantly personify & create new idioms for notoriously languageless states of being--Michael Clune's PAN, William Brewer's THE RED ARROW, Elaine Kraf's THE PRINCESS OF 72ND STREET
7 months ago
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rereading Stoner over the next 2 weeks, you are invited to join me, we don't have to talk about it, it's Silent Stoner Book Club in advance of TYB Book Club on 4/27
7 months ago
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every memoir is like, what if I were tell you that I, a human woman, have PROBLEMS
7 months ago
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People are really weird about reading. Obsessing abt numbers, “rating” books, feeling “guilt,” getting parasocial…like guys. Calm down this is supposed to be fun
7 months ago
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"The secret life of" flora/fauna? None of my business. That's why it's secret
7 months ago
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when I read a popular book & love it too…trust that I love it differently
7 months ago
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every book for young teens is like what if a QUEER MURDERER went to PROM
7 months ago
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every book is like, what if the CLIMATE could HAVE SEX
8 months ago
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