Kristen Martin

What Happens When the True Crime Story Is Over? John J. Lennon’s book, written in his twenty-fourth year in prison, provides a bracing reckoning with guilt, remorse, and the possibility of change.

For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about John J. Lennon's THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME, which provides a challenging and bracing reckoning with guilt and the possibility of changing the narrative of one’s life: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Every royalty statement from my publisher is a new chance to thank you from the bottom of my heart for buying up every copy of BODY HORROR we have been able to print over the last—OMG—eight years. Free shipping today on bookshop dot org, plus the book is a buck fifty off! <3 <3 <3

Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.

Anti-abortion communities are using private and public money to install baby boxes—devices where people can anonymously surrender infants—in fire stations and hospitals. In June 2020 there were just 29 of these devices in the U.S., now there are more than 350. My story:
time.com/7299476/baby...

The Devastating History of Baby Relinquishment Positioning baby drop boxes as a solution to unwanted pregnancy ignores important historical lessons.

Really glad to this story, Alana! One small point—as a I wrote in a piece for TIME Made by History earlier this year, there were organizations in the U.S., such as the NYC Foundling Hospital, that supported legal anon infant relinquishment in the 19th and 20th centuries: time.com/7280998/deva...

The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood The Dark History of American Orphanhood

@bookshop.org has free shipping today and tomorrow for Anti-Prime Days—as good a time as ever to order my book: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Jim Kenney @JimFKenney So sad sometimes. 8:42 PM • 2/25/14

It’s always good to have this on hand

This billionaire Trump ally and his son are building an unprecedented media empire Larry and David Ellison’s holdings span movies, TV networks, CBS and soon a stake in TikTok, in a paradigm-shifting portfolio with huge influence.

(reading this/gift link): wapo.st/46EGqSw

There are many other things that make David Ellison contemptible, but why does he still have the "flip" hairstyle of 10-year-old boys circa 1998?

I told a group of college seniors about the garlic mayo book and they were all disgusted

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

sooooo good

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

Anyway @rvoronacote.bsky.social did it best years ago: bookshop.org/p/books/too-...

I started wading through publicist pitches and catalogs etc for 2026 book releases today, and discovered that there are two novels coming out with the same Anthony Frederick Sandys painting used in the cover art. This is the 2026 blob cover: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lo...

Me to my dog when she wants to double back on a walk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqjh...

This is a great companion piece/explainer for the Klein–Coates discussion from the weekend (which is also worth your time).

What I'm (Not) Reading On crawling out of a reading slump

A blog about being burnt out on reading and finding my way back americanorphan.substack.com/p/what-im-no...

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

For those who were directly targeted by Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech signal the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in an essay for The New York Times Magazine.

So absurd!!

One of the most insane-making feelings of the past year has been wondering if I have *harmed* my career by accomplishing what should be a huge achievement—publishing a book

Required reading for anyone who has written a book, wants to write one, or cares about reading, frankly!

👀 what did I miss

This is tomorrow (tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow)

Philly folks! Join me and Jiordan Castle for a convo about my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW this Thursday at the Penn Bookstore!

The famous X-Files "I want to believe" poster with a flying saucer hovering above some trees and the text beneath reads "I WANT TO BE"

Image from the film Love Lies Bleeding where Kristen Stewart is kneeling on the lap of Katy O'Brian, who is also kneeling; their heads are bent towards each other. Above Stewart's head is the caption "The urge to write sexy queer yearning"; on O'Brian's legs is the caption "The urge to write Serious Literature"; in the space between the two women is the caption "BEINGS"

My book comes out tomorrow and I gotta say I've been slaying it on the memes over on Instagram (if you're interested in following me there) but I just have to share my two faves from today

Philly folks! Join me and Jiordan Castle for a convo about my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW this Thursday at the Penn Bookstore!

Paul Laity · After Martha For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Kimmel yanked: Sen. Fetterman, can we call it ‘fascism’ yet? | Will Bunch Trump regime shredded the First Amendment in forcing Jimmy Kimmel's off the air. Our 'leaders' still don't get it.

Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler

The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashio...

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