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Kristen Iskandrian

@kristeniskandrian.bsky.social
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writer co-owner of Thank You Books in Birmingham, AL

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Recycling this ask for donations for our local nonprofit teaches creative writing in under-resourced schools. CW is therapeutic and liberating -- it helps them learn who they are and how to express themselves in a country that would rather they didn't. discoepic.swell.gives/fundraisers/...
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2026 Epic Read-A-Thon | Jessica Smith
DISCO's annual Epic Read-A-Thon is a 24-hour, out-loud, nonstop virtual reading to benefit the All City Writers Corps, a collective of hundreds of students in Birmingham schools who participate in wee...
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
John Green fans: see you in Birmingham? www.ticketmaster.com/thank-you-bo...
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
forgot about this app....hello
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
once again reading a highly-anticipated book & doing a lot of deep sighs (negative)
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Ersatz profundities
I’m in my office looking at some scribble on the wall made long ago by one of my daughters, grateful that I never got rid of it.
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
recommend having a niche-off w/ your 17yo
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
don’t you dare try to steal it
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
imagine being good at the internet in 2026 kristeniskandrian.substack.com/p/green-ball...
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Green Balloon
literally a green balloon
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Reading Problems: Having a Body
in a word: ew
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I dreamed about a Barnes & Noble so beautiful I started to cry
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Difficult year but we exit singing
notes on surviving
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Reading Problems: Marginalia and "Work"
part 3 in an ongoing series about reading as a bookseller & a writer
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Erin does dads 😍
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
giddy
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
ppl requesting author events or basically anything in December……gonna be a no from me dawg
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I’d like to read a flinching memoir, for a change
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Reading Problems: Retention
I love that book. What's it about again?
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
you heard it here first
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Really tired of containing multitudes. Ready to contain 1-2 things, max
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Romaine Brooks’s women
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
happy pub day to @somers.bsky.social ! cc @thankyoubooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kristeni...
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The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers
October's Signed First Edition Club pick at Thank You Books
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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Lauren Ambrose performs @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social’s “Quantum Voicemail." Enjoy an excerpt of her reading here, and then listen to the full story wherever you get your podcasts! bit.ly/4mGUqQw
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
some events are events & some events are sensual….this was right before I said “I love you” @tricialockwood.bsky.social #smirnoff
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
quite a few homages to Thomas Bernhard these days….some may say…*too* many
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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Better With You?, actors Julie Benko and Lauren Ambrose perform stories by Kim Fu and @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/4mGUqQw
Headshot of Julie Benko.Headshot of Lauren Ambrose.
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
it's time for us as a nation to force Billy Joel to write another verse of We Didn't Start the Fire
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"insane in retrospect but we're doing it" sums up @thankyoubooks.bsky.social very nicely 🧚
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“Lily Allen” literature….does this have legs
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
every book is like, she was a young damaged pupil…..he was a man of letters, if not principles…..
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
can’t explain it but this book is like Ace Ventura, a movie I’ve never seen
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social all the way tf locked in for @tricialockwood.bsky.social !!!! Preorder here: thankyoubookshop.com/item/ZoOPMvN...
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
panning for new TYB tee ideas, & just landed on this one, courtesy Nathanael West: “She works in a bookstore, but wait’ll you see her behind.”
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
had a dream movies came out in paperback
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
one minute you’re rippin cigs in your boyfriend’s Pathfinder, amped on Fugazi, the next you’re in a minivan and it’s
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
my only hesitation re autofiction is reserved for how it has trained readers to wonder if every novel is “true”
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Emily Tarr @emilytarr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
CHEERS to @tricialockwood.bsky.social (in convo w/ @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social) at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social, 3 months from today!!!! 🥂
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
the Lester Bangs of the cereal aisle.....does this have legs
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
every book of historical fiction is like, deep on a boat, inside of a map, inscribed by an apothecarist, abandoned by a silent film star, lies the secret of the original Tome
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
the universal name for someone who's being insane is Crazy McNutts, I think we can all agree
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
market terms for when a book’s so good you know it’ll do numbers but also when a book’s so bad you know it’ll do numbers…same term with a different prefix maybe…
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
a short essay about being 1st gen & the nebulae of "voice"
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Where does voice come from?
on language, foreignness, & eavesdropping
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
why is every online writing class like "Dog-Eared: Writing Dogs (and Their Ears) To Get an Agent"
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
sometimes you have to let the ppl know that Stoner is not about a stoner and Sister Carrie is not about a nun
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
ah I see this year we get not one but two teen girl bathing suit categories: OnlyFans and Big Ruche
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The 1000 Words of Summerification of the Contemporary American Novel: in this essay I will
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“I have a deep suspicion of women who claim to be able to remove stains. Either they’re lying or there’s something not quite right at home.”—Marlen Haushofer, Killing Stella (tr. Shaun Whiteside)
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Yiyun Li is a national treasure, here are some inadequate thoughts on her latest kristeniskandrian.substack.com/p/things-in-...
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I’m a crier, it’s true, but I cried at an Alice Notley reading, b/c I knew I was in the presence of genius, & b/c her work seemed to come from some harrowing beyond that she was showing us the lit corners of, the lighted exits
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I love how ppl who “hate musical theater” see their kid in a play for the first time & go full Pippin
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