American Orphan
Kristen MartinA newsletter about books and child welfare—and my book on child welfare, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 48 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 16 days ago |
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What I'm Writing/What I'm Reading
Two years ago, before I stopped using Twitter1 and locked my account for posterity, I posted the following about family abolition:
I can’t remember exactly what “neglect” stuff I was responding to at the time, and I had yet to read works...
What I'm Reading
Since the start of the year, I’ve been collecting family policing/adoption/reproductive justice–related stories that I’ve read, admired, and want to recommend. Here we go:
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I Close-Read Peter Attia's Mega Bestseller for Slate
Last summer, I bought a copy of longevity influencer Peter Attia’s book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, cowritten with Bill Gifford. I wasn’t hoping that reading the book would help me increase my “healthspan,” a term Attia has p...
In the Folds
Ours was a magazine family. The shelves on our living room end tables were laden with my dad’s back issues of National Geographic; our coffee table featured fresh copies of whatever magazines my mom ordered for herself and my brother, John,...
One Year of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW
A year ago today, it was something like 15 degrees in Philadelphia, Trump was on his first full day of his second term as president, and my book was launched into the world! (I wrote about that confluence of events here.) Instead of once ag...
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I am a writer and cultural critic. My debut narrative nonfiction book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, is out now from Bold Type Books.
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