MJ Franklin
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Editor: @nytimesbooks. A tweeter, a book nerd et un homosexuel. ✨🌈 (He/ him)
Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2010
Some personal news, as they say.
We’d like to welcome @NeimaJahromi to The Times Book Review and congratulate @Heyitsfranklin2 and Emily Eakin on their promotions.
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I know everyone is talking about the headline, but that dek, "No, nothing good starts in a janitor cart" is the quiet hero here
Sneaky Little Gremlin Taylor Swift finds new hidey-hole: a janitor cart
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I'm usually behind the scenes editing, but I was so charmed by "House of Cotton," a new novel that is so weird, so dark, so smart and so refreshing, I had to write about it.
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In her roller-coaster ride of a gothic debut novel, “House of Cotton,” Monica Brashears upends expectations at every turn.
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RT @Hugh_Ryan: I found Alice Winn's new book IN MEMORIAM absolutely addictive; a queer WWI love story filled with glorious sentences. Check….
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In Alice Winn’s debut novel, “In Memoriam,” two schoolboys hiding from their feelings for each other enlist in the military during World War I, where they find romance and catastrophe.
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Weekend baking adventure: chocolate chip toffee cookies 🍪✨
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RT @danyakukafka: Happy Valentine's Day, I wrote about murder! An honor and a privilege to review for @nytimesbooks 🖤. .
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Two new books — “Brutes,” by Dizz Tate, and “On the Savage Side,” by Tiffany McDaniel — challenge and reshape the way stories about abused and murdered women are told.
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My profile of Paul Harding is in print this weekend!!. (And you can read it online here too:
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RT @lydiakiesling: I reviewed Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, a beautiful novel with one of my new favorite fictional narr….
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In Marisa Crane’s debut novel, “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself,” a queer, grieving mother must learn how to raise a newborn baby who is marked from birth as a bad actor.
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This, from @JenLouiseWilson, is so smart, as always!!.
This year will be the 10th Valentine's Day since the launch of Tinder and the dating app explosion. For @nytimesbooks I wrote about what it's all meant for literature. 💘.
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RT @jen_harlan: For the last 8 months, @LyonsEve, Alice Fang and I have been working on a new visual series called Where We Are. It's about….
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The members of the female and L.G.B.T.Q. skateboarding collective Dencity have carved out a space of freedom, safety and community in Lagos.
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RT @ClintSmithIII: Woke up thinking about Tyre Nichols’ family. Thinking about a man who was a father, a son, a friend. Thinking about how….
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RT @nytimes: It took a decade, and some luck, for Paul Harding to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Tinkers." Now, he's back with a….
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It took the author a decade, and some luck, to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Tinkers.” He’s back with another devastating tale, “This Other Eden.”
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Anyway, you can read my full profile of Paul Harding here!
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It took the author a decade, and some luck, to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Tinkers.” He’s back with another devastating tale, “This Other Eden.”
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