🩵🌤️THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW🌤️🩵 is out today and I could not be more pleased about these first two hits—a perceptive rave review in @washingtonpost by brilliant author of RELINQUISHED @gretchen.sisson an interview in @bombmag with fellow @boldtypebooks author @jaaacklowery ! Links in bio.
For @theatlantic , I wrote about Fortesa Latifi’s book LIKE, FOLLOW, SUBSCRIBE, which offers an inside view of the family influencing industry that raises ethical concerns for anyone who uses this app. Gift link in stories/highlights!
In 2018, a small Louisiana private school went viral as several students were admitted into elite colleges. Then, two NYT reporters exposed the school as a unaccredited and abusive nightmare. For @nationmag , I reviewed their book MIRACLE CHILDREN, which explores the systems that allowed the school to operate unchecked in the first place. Link in stories/highlights
In print and online now with @readlux : I wrote about the tensions between family abolition and family policing abolition, and why they should be overcome, via a review of SOLIDARITY WITH CHILDREN. link in stories/highlights
I volunteered as tribute to actually read and substantively critique OUTLIVE, the mega-bestselling book by longevity influencer Peter Attia, who was recently disgraced by his 1,700-plus appearances in the Epstein files. The book sells the appealing fantasy that one can control one’s mortality with the right tactics. Unsurprisingly, it’s garbage. Thanks to @slate for letting me go long. Highlights here, full piece at the link in bio and stories.
I’m going to the place and I made the thing // if you’ll be at AWP in Baltimore next week, come say hi! I’ll be tabling for @fsp_nwu and paneling about unions and about writing from archives with some special folks.
TOMORROW Join us at 7 p.m. to hear about Kristin Martin’s new book: “The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood.”
Free and open to the public 21+!
Martin, a freelance writer and cultural critic, will be interviewed by author Jiordan Castle. Martin combines in-depth archival research, memoir, and cultural analysis to explore the history of how the United States has treated dependent children from the 1800s to the present.
Philadelphia features at several points, including a chapter that focuses on the recent SCOTUS case Fulton v. Philadelphia.
Registering is not required, but we appreciate it if you do!
Thrilled to interview my friend and @fsp_nwu comrade @lilyjeanmeyer about her new novel THE END OF ROMANCE, out 2/3, for @bombmag . I stayed up way too late reading this book, under the spell of its stubborn and smart heroine Sylvie. Lily is a genius and really threaded the needle to pull off this intellectually serious anti-romance romance. Link in stories/highlights!
