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Maris Kreizman

Maris Kreizman
Maris Kreizman hosted the literary podcast, The Maris Review, for four years. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Republic, and more. Her essay collection, I Want to Burn This Place Down, is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins.


Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Standing Up For Literature
August 28, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Make Millions From Publishing Books

Maris Kreizman Wonders Who Will Be Left to Pass Judgment on Book-Related Cases
August 14, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

The Author of “I Want to Burn This Place Down” Unionizes Against the Big Five’s Unlivable Wages
July 1, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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Pep Talks That I Give to Authors That I Will Now Give to Myself

In Which Maris Kreizman Attempts to Take Her Own Advice
June 20, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

Maris Kreizman Will Never, Ever Catch Up on Her Reading
June 5, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

Maris Kreizman on the AI Hallucinations That Made it to the Book Review Section
May 22, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

Maris Kreizman Wonders What Can Be Done in the Face of Trump’s Devastating NEA Cuts?
May 8, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend

Maris Kreizman Reminds Us That Good Spaces Still Exist in the World
April 24, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

Maris Kreizman on the Realities of Seeing Your Book Out Into the World
April 10, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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How is Meta Getting Its Hands on Advance Digital Galleys to Train Its AI?

Maris Kreizman: One of the Richest Companies in the World is Stealing From the Rest of Us
March 27, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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Shilling Books While Rome Burns: Why Politicians Need to Focus on Their Day Jobs

Maris Kreizman to Gavin Newsom: WE DON’T NEED YOUR MEMOIR
March 13, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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As Big Publishing Gets More Corporate, Shouldn’t the Salaries Go Up?

Maris Kreizman Has Some Questions
February 27, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

Maris Kreizman on One of Publishing’s Eternal Inevitabilities
February 13, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism

Maris Kreizman on Finding the Art to Free Her From Her Phone
January 30, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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How to Talk About Your Own Book

Maris Kreizman’s Advice (to Herself) on Self-Promotion
January 16, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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Fighting for Book Workers’ Rights, Battling Book Bans, and Other Literary Resolutions For 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Ahead to the New Year
January 2, 2025  By Maris Kreizman
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My Favorite Book-to-TV Adaptations of 2024

Maris Kreizman Weighs in on What Really Worked (and What Didn’t)
December 19, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

Maris Kreizman Encourages You to Head Over to Bluesky to Make Fun of This Piece
December 12, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting 50 Shades of Grey in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers

Maris Kreizman Takes a Closer Look at the Misplaced Adoration of Christian Grey
November 21, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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The Book News is Generally… Good?

Maris Kreizman Finds Some Silver Linings
November 7, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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