Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 6hIf you’re paying for an outside book publicist, I think you’d hope that person isn’t trying to pitch your book to an editor who died five years ago (just got a group pitch 👀) 020
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mariska Hargitay on ER is giving me the major ick 111
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I loved talking to Rainesford about knitting, crocheting, and my grandmother for this! 071
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Registration closes TOMORROW for my upcoming online hybrid memoir class! There are just two spots left: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ba...bluestoop.orgThrough the Back Door — Blue StoopNeed financial aid? Apply here first. Through the Back Door: Writing the Hybrid Memoir 9 Mondays, 9/28 – 11/23 | 6:30–8:30 pm ET | Virtual When we break away from wha... 000
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Most recently, Candice Wuehle's ULTRANATURAL, which I reviewed for the New Republic newrepublic.com/article/2108...newrepublic.comConfessions of an Exploited Pop StarCandice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural lays bare the alienated labor behind the catchy hits and sequined costumes. 031
Reposted by Kristen Martinchris bell @christopherbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sunday Oct 25 I will be at Roxy Cinema NYC screening some episodes of Miss Me Yet and afterwards will be discussing the Bush years with none other than Sam Seder! Come through: roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/mis…roxycinemanewyork.com 043
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Few things worse than being on an Amtrak with no quiet car AND being stuck riding backwards 030
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026General full scholarship applications for my upcoming hybrid memoir course with Blue Stoop are due tomorrow, 9/10! More info on the class here, with a link to the app: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ba...bluestoop.orgThrough the Back Door — Blue StoopNeed financial aid? Apply here first. Through the Back Door: Writing the Hybrid Memoir 9 Mondays, 9/28 – 11/23 | 6:30–8:30 pm ET | Virtual When we break away from wha... 221
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026General full scholarship applications for my upcoming hybrid memoir course with Blue Stoop are due tomorrow, 9/10! More info on the class here, with a link to the app: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ba...bluestoop.orgThrough the Back Door — Blue StoopNeed financial aid? Apply here first. Through the Back Door: Writing the Hybrid Memoir 9 Mondays, 9/28 – 11/23 | 6:30–8:30 pm ET | Virtual When we break away from wha... 221
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Love this episode of SVU from 2018 where it takes the unit days to figure out what Chad and Stacey refers to 010
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Gift link to the WSJ Fetterman feature that every Pennsylvanian ought to read: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comBehind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a SenatorThe first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel. 3279
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The new dialect quiz thing going around has a serious Long Island erasure problem—it keeps telling me I'm from New Jersey even with "on line" and "hero," two things that gave me away as NOT being from NJ when I moved there at 14 100
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Registration is open now through 9/24, with scholarship applications due by 9/10: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ba...bluestoop.orgThrough the Back Door — Blue StoopNeed financial aid? Apply here first. Through the Back Door: Writing the Hybrid Memoir 9 Mondays, 9/28 – 11/23 | 6:30–8:30 pm ET | Virtual When we break away from wha... 000
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Big fan of how the Gmail spam filter doesn't bat at eye at the sticky caps cArShIELD missives I have been getting multiple times a day 010
Reposted by Kristen MartinKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I love writing for @thebaffler.com and it kills me to see the workers there being put through the wringer like this. Fair contract NOW! 08913
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026No one talks about how chia pudding is upsetting for those of us with trypophobia (nevertheless I am persisting for fiber) 010
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I loathe the movie ANNIE (for reasons amply expounded upon in my book) but even I can admit that Tim Curry is genius in it 020
Reposted by Kristen MartinMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We really did lose one of the best advocates for books that there ever was. 91482170
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Registration is open now! www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ba...bluestoop.orgThrough the Back Door — Blue StoopNeed financial aid? Apply here first. Through the Back Door: Writing the Hybrid Memoir 9 Mondays, 9/28 – 11/23 | 6:30–8:30 pm ET | Virtual When we break away from wha... 001
Reposted by Kristen Martinchris bell @christopherbell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I am proud to present my latest feature film, FAILED STATE. Now on @means.tv Please watch! Sign up for a free trial and stay awhile, or sign up with the code CHRISBELL for 10% off! means.tv/programs/fai... 04326
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Registration is open now! www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ba...bluestoop.orgThrough the Back Door — Blue StoopNeed financial aid? Apply here first. Through the Back Door: Writing the Hybrid Memoir 9 Mondays, 9/28 – 11/23 | 6:30–8:30 pm ET | Virtual When we break away from wha... 001
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Join me this fall for a redux of my popular hybrid memoir class with Blue Stoop, expanded and refreshed! We’ll meet via Zoom on Monday nights from late September through late November, and scholarships available to folks in the greater Philly area. Hit up bluestoop.org/classes for more! 022
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Join me this fall for a redux of my popular hybrid memoir class with Blue Stoop, expanded and refreshed! We’ll meet via Zoom on Monday nights from late September through late November, and scholarships available to folks in the greater Philly area. Hit up bluestoop.org/classes for more! 022
Reposted by Kristen Martinoctober "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Which one of you was looking for book recs about adoption the other day? 272
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It’s my birthday! Perhaps you’d like to buy my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW, or check it out from your library, or add/rate/review it on Goodreads or Storygraph! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...bookshop.orgThe Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American OrphanhoodThe orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashion. Step two: Orphan acquires caretakers who... 152
Reposted by Kristen MartinBrittney McKenna @brittneymckenna.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This happened to me with Vulture last year. I was hired to cover a day-long TV event (on a Sunday, no less) here in Nashville. I spent 8 hours at the event, then went home and wrote a 1500-word piece overnight because they wanted to post it the next day. Then the editor kept putting me off. (cont.) 214047
Reposted by Kristen MartinAlexis Gunderson @alexiskg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This should NOT be the experience of freelancers anywhere, nevertheless at a publication as respected as Vulture! But this sort of thing is also what collective action is made for — freelancers, come join @fspnwu.bsky.social where culture critics are building power for better conditions! 083
Reposted by Kristen MartinMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Please get in touch if you’d like to join the cultural critics group at the Freelance Solidarity Project. We have to look out for one another. open.substack.com/pub/freelanc...open.substack.comA Statement on Industry-Wide Cuts to Cultural Criticism2025 has been a year of devastating disinvestment across arts and culture criticism. 35619
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026In my first for @bloomberg.com, I wrote about Kimon de Greef's THE EGO TRIP and the perils of plunging too quickly into the deep end of psychedelics. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comThe Toad Medicine Boom Was Built on a MythKimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip reveals how a fabricated origin story, a self-styled guru and a powerful psychedelic combined to launch a global phenomenon. 012
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026In my first for @bloomberg.com, I wrote about Kimon de Greef's THE EGO TRIP and the perils of plunging too quickly into the deep end of psychedelics. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comThe Toad Medicine Boom Was Built on a MythKimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip reveals how a fabricated origin story, a self-styled guru and a powerful psychedelic combined to launch a global phenomenon. 012
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026New substack about this stack: americanorphan.substack.com/p/what-im-ya... 021
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026New substack about this stack: americanorphan.substack.com/p/what-im-ya... 021
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I’m back at @npr.org today with a review of Pamela Colloff’s masterful CATCH THE DEVIL, a damning look at our criminal legal system through the lens of one murder case and the trail of harm carved by one jailhouse witness—with the collusion of the state: www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...npr.orgA teen was murdered in 1985. A new book tracks the case through a broken legal systemCatch the Devil by journalist Pamela Colloff highlights the potentially fatal consequences of a system more concerned with securing convictions than determining the truth and delivering justice. 051
Reposted by Kristen MartinNPR @npr.org · 21/07/2026Journalist Pamela Colloff has written an engrossing and damning book on how the case of the 1985 killing of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio played out. n.pr/4vRrvOon.pr'Catch the Devil' is a work of true crime that indicts the justice systemJournalist Pamela Colloff has written an engrossing and damning book on how the case of the 1985 killing of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio played out. 19217
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I’m back at @npr.org today with a review of Pamela Colloff’s masterful CATCH THE DEVIL, a damning look at our criminal legal system through the lens of one murder case and the trail of harm carved by one jailhouse witness—with the collusion of the state: www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...npr.orgA teen was murdered in 1985. A new book tracks the case through a broken legal systemCatch the Devil by journalist Pamela Colloff highlights the potentially fatal consequences of a system more concerned with securing convictions than determining the truth and delivering justice. 051
Reposted by Kristen MartinBOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026@samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social discusses her anthology “Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection” ( @beaconpress.bsky.social, 2026) featuring essays and interviews on the many possibilities for communal living with writer @kwistent.bsky.social. bit.ly/4bMgXbPbit.lyBOMB Magazine | Samantha Paige Rosen by Kristen MartinEssays and interviews on the many possibilities for communal living. 056
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Thanks so much to @alexsteed.bsky.social for having me on to talk ANNIE, my least favorite orphan character whom I have nevertheless written many, many words on. Podcast link here: www.podpage.com/you-are-good/podpage.comYou Are GoodYou Are Good is a feelings podcast about movies hosted by Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed. 1122
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Damning shit for this absolute fool share.inquirer.com/UROPEeshare.inquirer.comDemocratic Sen. John Fetterman has more support among Pa. Republicans than GOP Sen. Dave McCormick, new poll showsJust under half of Pennsylvania's registered voters approve of how Fetterman is handling his job, but a vast majority of his support came from Republicans, according to a new poll. 120
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Thanks so much to @alexsteed.bsky.social for having me on to talk ANNIE, my least favorite orphan character whom I have nevertheless written many, many words on. Podcast link here: www.podpage.com/you-are-good/podpage.comYou Are GoodYou Are Good is a feelings podcast about movies hosted by Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed. 1122
Reposted by Kristen MartinYou Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 15/07/2026NEW EPISODE! Leapin' Lizards! In which we unpack all of the aspirational feelings of Annie with @danijanae.bsky.social and attempt to wrap our heads around the one-hundred year history of America's favorite "little orphan" with @kwistent.bsky.social! 5325
Reposted by Kristen MartinRainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026For a story: Did you participate in Pizza Hut's BOOK-IT! program? I'd love to talk to you about it for a story on the program being back this summer. If your child is participating in BOOK IT! this year, I'd love to speak with you, too. DMs open, rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20 127036
Reposted by Kristen MartinBeacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Happy #PublicationDay, @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social! 🏘️ LIVING, TOGETHER, an anthology on found family, hacking adulthood, and other lessons communal living teaches us about the future of US housing, is “rigorous, funny, authentic, and informative.” — @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social 0103
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Main diff so far is that on ER they are obsessed with letting loved ones and sometimes random children watch traumatic procedures through open windows, curtains, etc 140
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 08/07/2026We’ve been watching season one of ER and they really just recycled a lot of storylines for the Pitt 020
Reposted by Kristen MartinKristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In print in the July/August issue of @newrepublic.com, and now online: my review of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s brilliant book Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young newrepublic.com/article/2117... 011
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In print in the July/August issue of @newrepublic.com, and now online: my review of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s brilliant book Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young newrepublic.com/article/2117... 011
Reposted by Kristen Martinchris bell @christopherbell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This will be the final time you can ever see my second feature INCORRECTIONAL. By the way, if you have some sort of platform and are down for an interview, I'm open. Would love to get this out there and give the movie one last chance to be heard. 098