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Alex Mar

@alex-mar.bsky.social
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Writer/Journalist. Debut novel coming in early 2027. Nonfiction: SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN (NYT Editors' Choice), WITCHES OF AMERICA (NYT Notable Book), longform journalism, doc AMERICAN MYSTIC (Kino Lorber).

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Anthony Lydgate @anthonylydgate.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“What is the hole in our culture that therapy fills? And what really happens when we try to re-create that relationship with a machine?” @alex-mar.bsky.social going to sub-Freudian depths with this story about two people and their bots www.wired.com/story/ai-the...
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The Haunting Story of Two People—and Their Bots—on Therapy’s New Frontier
As millions confide in ChatGPT about their most intimate problems, these relationships are even stranger, more moving, and more insidious than we've imagined.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is one of the best stories we've published in a long time. Come for the most thoughtful, in-depth exploration of AI as therapy you've ever read. Stay because the writing and the storytelling are both sensational. @alex-mar.bsky.social did such tremendous work on this one.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17/10/2025
On Wednesday, November 12 at 7 PM, I’ll be in conversation with @alex-mar.bsky.social at Books Are Magic — details and registration at withoutconsent.eventbrite.com (it will also be live-streamed):
Graphic for Books Are Magic event with Alex Mar for WITHOUT CONSENT on Wednesday 11/12 at 7 PM
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/10/2025
Every day, millions confide in AI, exposing their most intimate problems and hoping it will fix them. This is the story of two people—and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier. AI as therapist? By @alex-mar.bsky.social
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Millions Are Confessing Their Secrets to Chatbots. Is That Therapy?
This is the story of two people—and their ChatGPT companions—trying to improve their lives through AI. These relationships, it is clear, are changing us.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.
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Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
So…BUNNY, my brother’s first film (as creative producer & co-writer), is in competition @sxsw.com in March! It’s kind of a lo-fi “After Hours” meets “Good Time”? Keep an eye on newcomer Mo Stark as the lead. He blew my mind. (And no one paid me to say that…)
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
If you are anxiously posting about how Elon is hijacking our country and you haven’t called your members of Congress, your Governor, and Dem leadership, to urge them to action, then you too are not acting.
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Seamus Heaney on St Brigid's Day
On St. Brigid's Day the new life could be entered
By going through her girdle of straw rope
The proper way for men was right leg first
Then right arm and right shoulder, head, then left
Shoulder, arm and leg.
Women drew it down
Over the body and stepped out of it
The open they came into by these moves
Stood opener, hoops came off the world
They could feel the February air
Still soft above their heads and imagine
The limp rope fray and flare like wind-born gleanings
Or an unhindered goldfinch over ploughland.
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Reagan Arthur @reaganart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Our new imprint (name TK!) is coming into focus and I’m so glad that FORTUNE will be part of it
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Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Friends, this is my 3rd book—and my debut novel. Cannot wait to share this one. Thrilled to be working with @reaganart.bsky.social at her new imprint at @grandcentralpub.bsky.social / @hachetteus.bsky.social.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
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Longreads @longreads.com · 29/11/2024
"Forgiveness is deeply complex. Should those who want it ask for it? Should those who forgive be celebrated over those who don’t?" —John J. Lennon reviews "Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy" by @alex-mar.bsky.social for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Tangled Justice | John J. Lennon
A new book examines the complex relationship between forgiveness and justice through the story of Paula Cooper, who was sentenced to death at the age of sixteen.
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Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thanks to @nybooks for this substantial, fascinating review, dubbing SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN “commanding” & “a nuanced exploration of justice, forgiveness, & mercy.” The reviewer is incarcerated for homicide & responds to the story’s wrestling w/violence, punishment, & forgiveness from a v personal POV.
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Tangled Justice | John J. Lennon
A new book examines the complex relationship between forgiveness and justice through the story of Paula Cooper, who was sentenced to death at the age of sixteen.
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Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Moving and beautifully written. So many people in this country are only a small portion of bad luck away from losing their home. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
He’s at the Pizza Hut. He’s at the Taco Bell. He’s at the combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell.
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Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A lot of politics & books & art…but for now, here’s my border collie, Strummer.
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