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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.


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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Big Lies Need Even Bigger Fact Checking

Maris Kreizman on What We Really Need to Do to Combat All the Political Lying
October 24, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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We Can’t Rely on Drug Companies to Keep Insulin Prices Low

Maris Kreizman on Living at the Whim of Corporate Pharmaceuticals
October 18, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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Which One of You Sent Me Lonesome Dove in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

In Which Maris Kreizman Reads Larry McMurtry’s Classic
October 10, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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On the Anxiety of Finally Publishing a Book After Years of Covering Them

Maris Kreizman Considers the View From the Other Side
September 26, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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Posting Truth to Power: In Praise of a Publishing Gossip Site

Maris Kreizman on the Important Role of Xoxopublishinggg
September 12, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

Maris Kreizman, in Praise of the Deep Dive
August 29, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

Maris Kreizman on this Fall’s Incredible Crop of Fiction
August 15, 2024  By Maris Kreizman
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