Kimberly Burns

I feel it's my duty as the Last Print Subscriber to let people know this. The staff critics are running in the Book Review, not the weekday paper, which is a big change, and cuts down on the number of reviews. And features like the death of mass market paperbacks also run in the book review.

Opinion | Carolyn Bessette Was Living the Dream. Then She Met John.

I miss 90s NYC. And smoking.
Excellent from @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social in @nytimes.com
“At a party, recently, one woman in her 40s from L.A. told me, unprompted, that she would pay $10 million to go back to that time and place.”

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Proud! Lauren Francis-Sharma’s brilliant CASUALTIES OF TRUTH makes the list! 🎉🎉🎉 @laurenfsharma.bsky.social @groveatlantic.bsky.social

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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The Real Litmus Test for Democratic Presidential Candidates Supporting a wealth tax.

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In Jung Yun’s new novel, a ship of fools that look a lot like us - The Boston Globe Jung Yun captures post-9/11 grief and resolve in her witty, wrenching “All the World Can Hold,” both a rollicking yarn and a shrewd send-up of American culture. She opens her novel on Sunday, Septembe...

The Love Boat has an evil twin! Set on a cruise ship in the aftermath of 9/11, Jung Yun's "All the World Can Hold" probes American escapism amid political strife. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/a...

When Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster

🎉 Great to see @saribotton.bsky.social and Oldster in @nytimes.com 🎉

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

Gently, gently: if you are asking a favor of me, and you’re clearly using AI to write the email, I will be sending your email directly to the trash bin.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I think the coolest thing we do at The Verge is publish comics. This one is brilliant (and behind the scenes, an absolute beast of engineering)

The Collapse of Presidential Rhetoric From Lincoln’s eloquence to Trump’s 108-minute harangue

A reminder to subscribe to @roncharles.bsky.social ‘s substack! open.substack.com/pub/roncharl...

Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

Ugh. Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76

I wouldn’t have the life in publishing that I’ve been so lucky to have if it wasn’t for her, at one time, believing in me. I will be grateful forever. Today I am sad.
Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

'Moments of Grace': A Bookselling Parable Yesterday American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill welcomed attendees at the 21st Winter Institute with a story about the parallels

Allison Hill on the difficulty and triumph of being a bookseller now. Love books? Read this: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section

There is a special place in hell for you, Jeff Bezos.
A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

They’re giving real “pick me!” energy. 😢

Today's @nytimes.com Book Review table of contents sure suggests they have a lot of questions:

Event commemorating Book World at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue at 5 o’clock February 21st.

If you’re in DC tomorrow and want to see a lot of bookish people in one place, I have good news:

You’ve Done It Again, Michael | Jynne Dilling Even as the pace of work life quickened exponentially across the next two decades, email inboxes overflowing, media outlets proliferating and then contracting, websites and newsletters dominating and ...

Jynne beautifully captures what was so special about Michael Silverblatt (and the old days of publishing): www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.

Old photograph of a wave in the ocean.

On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed, forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. #DayofRemembrance

Among the internees were individuals who embraced photography as an important means of artistic expression in the 1920s and 1930s.

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...

KCRW has a live tribute to Michael Silverblatt right now. Wonderful replays of many of his author interviews. Sontag, Spiegelman, Beattie, etc. www.kcrw.com/live-now

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie S...

The stories I have…may his memory be a blessing: Michael Silverblatt has died. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"I haven't been in such a rage in a long time. But, where does one dump one's rage?" ~Martha #Gellhorn (d. 15 Feb 1998 #OTD), letter to #EleanorRoosevelt

Fake News Release Says Bard’s Botstein is Resigning Immediately in Connection with Epstein Interactions; He’s Not - The Daily Catch The information in a fake news release announcing the resignation of Bard College President Leon Botstein on Saturday is false. Botstein has no plans to resign, his spokesman, David Wade, told The Dai...

Okay. Well. Anyway. There is no path forward for Bard + Botstein, so…tick tock. www.thedailycatch.org/articles/fak...

This story does a good job of collecting the threads involving Jeffrey Epstein, a Juilliard student who he called “my tall blonde violinist” and Leon Botstein.