Counterpoint: No I will not

“‘Her hair is midnight rain; her laugh is bright as zinc,’ read one line.“ Wtf are we doing here??? From @vauhinivara.bsky.social’s new piece. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Using Google Reader to keep up with all my favorite mp3 blogs

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Whitney Houston The Monkees Fiona Apple Neutral Milk Hotel Pulp C&C Music Factory Watain Run-DMC Concrete Blonde Pavement

We don’t hate Jeff Bezos enough. And I say this as someone who reeeally hates him.

Watching the Netflix documentary about 1975 told through film and it's like, okay, America is just as bad now but and there aren't even any good movies anymore.

Once again thinking of all my friends at @nymagunion.bsky.social and @voxmediaunion.bsky.social and just hoping that you’ll get to continue all the good work you’re doing.

We don’t hate Jeff Bezos enough. And I say this as someone who reeeally hates him.

In my latest newsletter I rave about a truly assured debut and I also consider that Guardian Best 100 Novels list. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival has its headliners! Join Hanif Abdurraqib, Jamila Woods, and so many other great artists this July 10th-12th in beautiful Dallas. Tickets available now: www.deepvellum.org/festival

First Olga, now this. Stop it!!

In my latest newsletter I rave about a truly assured debut and I also consider that Guardian Best 100 Novels list. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Happy pub day, Steven!

I’ve got some unfortunate news Sir

I promise you none of the people who manage your local bookstores would say the same. www.nbcnews.com/business/ceo...

I have too many options to even look at books my neighbors are giving away. But then just once you find one out of maybe three books youre actually looking for.

Not much is going great for me right now, but fuck it, I coined a new term!

Why This Campaign Should Be Dunzo, by Kristin Cavallari

Furious that the LA Times has yet to run an op-ed by Lauren Conrad with the headline “He’s a Sucky Person.”

If you're seeing Pride censorship in U.S. libraries–whether it's from inside the library or from pressure outside–please report it for the annual roundup. You can be anonymous. There are already *several* this year. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excellent new coinage.

Disappointing but not surprising www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I wrote about a phenomenon in literary adaptations that I refer to as hot-washing. lithub.com/hollywood-ne...

I wrote about a phenomenon in literary adaptations that I refer to as hot-washing. lithub.com/hollywood-ne...

I haven't read a novel as cynical as Yesteryear in a long time.

In Mamdani's New York the libraries are fully funded. gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

For my newsletter I wrote about excellent new books by @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social and @veronicarothbooks.com, and I also wrote about how and why newsletters are not the answer to diminishing book coverage. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Hell yeah! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"But with the collapse of so much book media, I hate the idea that newsletters are meant to replace other kinds of book coverage." @maris.bsky.social We live in the future. It isn't quite what we imagined. 😞 www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

For my newsletter I wrote about excellent new books by @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social and @veronicarothbooks.com, and I also wrote about how and why newsletters are not the answer to diminishing book coverage. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Why didn’t anyone warn me that Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has zero haunting? What is Wuthering Heights without the haunting?

on a personal note, i am just so sick of this shit. prioritizing nebulous feeling of discomfort over elevating the voices of people explicitly advocating for the freedom and safety of palestinians is sick. it makes those voices *less* safe and it doesn't make jews safer. i am begging people to stop.

If I get one more pitch for a book about the male loneliness epidemic I swear to God…

What fun! And thank you. I saw @dfelsenthal.bsky.social this morning and this review (if not the headline) is perfect. www.vulture.com/article/wayn...

Let’s try something. I’m going to tag one of my favorite literary critics whose work is alive and thriving and ask them to do the same in the comments (and ask their pick to tag someone else), so that we theoretically end up with a thread of critics to follow. my offering: @maris.bsky.social.

Really just thinking of my friends in the @nymagunion.bsky.social and @voxmediaunion.bsky.social who are doing such great work and hope they can keep on going. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

Would love to see RFK Jr have to deal with the healthcare system for decades while managing diabetes before he tells me that antidepressants aren’t necessary.

It's another huge release day, but I'm glad I took the time to rave about Xochitl Gonzalez. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

“Another enormous release day. Where is the benign millionaire who will fund a new book criticism publication so that more of these books will get coverage? Where are you??? Were you at the Met Gala last night looking stupid?” Go @maris.bsky.social Go! www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

It's another huge release day, but I'm glad I took the time to rave about Xochitl Gonzalez. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

I'm so mad that there is nothing but class rage when I read Met Gala recaps. I used to enjoy this!

Now would be an excellent time to pre-order Chris Smalls’s forthcoming book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724036...

I miss old Twitter when the Pulitzer account would just tweet all of the winners as they came in and we didn't have to watch anything.

Even if it wasn’t a moral issue, you would think the fashion elite wouldn’t want to be forced to kowtow to these two tacky assholes. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Truth!

We are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.

We're past 5000 letters to the City Council demanding that they support benchmarking the public library budgets at 0.5% of the city expense budget. We're on to 5500 letters. It's making a difference as we now have 11 members on record supporting this. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

That makes one of us, bitch

If I were writing YA I'm not sure I would want to be published by an imprint that advertised ahead of time that my book was purposefully neutered to appeal to busybodies who would still be likely to find fault at anything that did not exactly conform to their own particular brand of repression