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Maris Kreizman
I'm a columnist for Lit Hub whose work has appeared in New York Mag, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire & The New Republic. My book, I Want To Burn This Place Down, publishes in July 2025.
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The Maris Review, vol 36
Happy new year. Who can say what 2025 has in store for us, but I know for sure there will be good books. Allow me to shout about my friends for a bit?
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The Maris Review, vol 35
Churning out a bunch of shit products in order to make a quick buck is not the answer to any of the book world’s problems.
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The Maris Review, vol 34
My favorite audiobooks of 2024, my least anticipated books of 2025, and more...
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The Maris Review, vol 33
I stand by the fact that end-of-year lists are meaningless, and yet. We live in a specific media landscape. So...
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The Maris Review, vol 32
Yesterday, within the space of minutes, I saw two pieces of info on Bluesky that made me, once again, despair for the state of media — and book coverage, specifically.
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The Maris Review, vol 31
The scale and scope of the right wing book bans are absolutely not the same as the relatively few cases of book bans from the left. Let’s stop with false equivalencies!
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The Maris Review, vol 30
How can publishers possibly protect authors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers from hate, from vilification, from criminalization, while simultaneously publishing the architects of such plans?
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The Maris Review, vol 29
I have no idea what will happen today or tomorrow or next week, but I know that 2025 will have good books (including mine!), and that's not nothing.
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The Maris Review, vol 28
"I look at the faces of the sallow and entirely uninspiring so-called media elite and I yearn for any glimpse of optimism that doesn’t involve the proliferation of right wing platforms."
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The Maris Review, vol 28
"I look at the faces of the sallow and entirely uninspiring so-called media elite and I yearn for any glimpse of optimism that doesn’t involve the proliferation of right wing platforms."
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The Maris Review, vol 27
You will either come away from this with new insight into the quagmire of contemporary book coverage, or you will simply see me as an overthinker extraordinaire with not enough hobbies.