Kristen Martin

Where I'll be at AWP:

I Close-Read Peter Attia's Mega Bestseller for Slate The longevity influencer should have been disgraced long before the Epstein revelations

Behind-the-scenes of my latest piece: open.substack.com/pub/american...

Going to need romance folks to stop using the word "broody" as a descriptor, as it refers to a hen driven to hatch eggs, not moody/sullen

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

For yr weekend reading:

We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

For yr weekend reading:

We never should have listened to Attia in the first place—and it's crazy that it took 1,700-plus appearances of his name in the Epstein files for vocal backlash against his ideas. My piece for Slate on his mega-bestselling book OUTLIVE, which was still on the NYT list until mid-February:

Thank you for your reading and singing and talking tonight!

We never should have listened to Attia in the first place—and it's crazy that it took 1,700-plus appearances of his name in the Epstein files for vocal backlash against his ideas. My piece for Slate on his mega-bestselling book OUTLIVE, which was still on the NYT list until mid-February:

I'll be in conversation with @renee.bsky.social @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social and @tinavasquez.bsky.social on Saturday, March 7 at 1:45PM at the #AWP26 Conference & Bookfair for a panel titled Writing Abortion: What Stories Can Accomplish When Rights Are Taken Away

Peter Attia May Be the Most Sensible Longevity Influencer. But Is His Advice Any Good? His book Outlive is a mega-bestseller. I read it—and yikes.

I volunteered as tribute to read Peter Attia's near-500-page longevity bible OUTLIVE after the influencer showed up in the Epstein files. It showed me that we never should have listened to him. My essay for @slate.com: slate.com/technology/2...

Peter Attia May Be the Most Sensible Longevity Influencer. But Is His Advice Any Good? His book Outlive is a mega-bestseller. I read it—and yikes.

I volunteered as tribute to read Peter Attia's near-500-page longevity bible OUTLIVE after the influencer showed up in the Epstein files. It showed me that we never should have listened to him. My essay for @slate.com: slate.com/technology/2...

Loved working with you on this!

Peter Attia May Be the Most Sensible Longevity Influencer. But Is His Advice Any Good? His book Outlive is a mega-bestseller. I read it—and yikes.

peter attia is out at CBS News after showing up in the Epstein files ... but maybe we shouldn't have been listening to him in the first place slate.com/technology/2...

I knew I wanted to synthesize and draw connections across a long historical span, which demands book-length, esp. for something that's not particularly "newsy"—I can't imagine being commissioned to do a series of features on the topic (history of orphanhood through the present)

plz dm me I need to catch up

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A graphic with my AWP conference schedule: 3/5-3/7 NATIONAL WRITERS UNION / T134 COME SEE MY COMRADES AND ME IN THE BOOKFAIR AND LEARN ABOUT ONLY LABOR UNION THAT REPRESENTS FREELANCE WRITERS WORKING IN ALL GENRES, FORMATS, AND MEDIUMS 3/6, 1:45- A WRITERS'S PLACEIS IN A UNION PANEL / ROOM 310 3:00 PM WITH DANIEL FELSENTHAL, MARY RASENBERGER, AND TINA ONTIVEROS 3/7, 10:35-11:50 AM MINING THE PAST: CREATIVE NONFICTION IN THE ARCHIVES PANEL / ROOM 315 WITH HEATHER RADKE, JORDAN KISNER, HARRISON HILL, AND SASHA BONÉT

Come see me at AWP next week!

Mr. Cooper just got bought by Rocket Mortgage, so we're back to where we started now!

I lost my mind when ours changed to “Mr. Cooper”

Picture of me, white woman with red hair and blue shirt, with a speech bubble saying Where I’ll Be At AWP. Then a house that says 3/5 & 3/6: various offsite events and 3/7: OUR UNIQUE BRAINS: NEURODIVERGENT WRITERS SHARE STRATEGIES, 9am convention center room 301 and WRITER’S BEST FRIEND: A CAT READING, 7pm meander art bar

Anyone going to AWP? Heading there for the first time so I made this on canva at 3am! Find me around on Thurs & Fri, and at these two events on Sat:

OUR UNIQUE BRAINS: NEURODIVERGENT WRITERS SHARE STRATEGIES, 9am convention center room 301

WRITER’S BEST FRIEND: A CAT READING, 7pm meander art bar

Essentially not at all in the commentary on her skates!

It was a weird choice even without today's news!

A Child Misses 3 Weeks of School. Should Protective Services Step In?

Half of all states do not regard educational neglect as a reason to contact child welfare. NY should follow in their footsteps.

“We just don’t really have a good response on kids missing school — and it shouldn’t be penalizing and frightening parents” through CPS.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/n...

Oh man not Jeopardy having a question abt Sarah Ferguson's wedding to Prince Andrew today

This year like half of the people in South Philly who put out pumpkins in the fall decided they would remain until the end of time, collapsed, frozen, oozing

Quote on the graphic reads "Criticism is an essential part of a functioning literary ecosystem, and it takes an enormous amount of time, effort, and care. We get the quality of criticism we pay for, and we should pay more for it" by Ed Yong. Illustration is by Colleen Tighe, showing a cartoon person in a green shirt that reads "The Prestige Mag" swiping a card; the card reader shows a big red X and a loaf of bread and two apples are nearby, implying that the person's card was declined while buying groceries. FSP-NWU Book Critics Working Group is noted at the bottom left

As media workers, we are mutually invested in the amplification of cultural output. A dollar a word would help combat inequality in the media space. nwu.org/join

Illustration by @colleentie.bsky.social

There comes a time in every freelance book critic’s life when their hand-me-down IKEA bookshelves fail and they must buy the more expensive solid wood IKEA bookshelves (because even in their mid-30s they cannot afford non-IKEA bookshelves)