Maris Kreizman is the author of I Want to Burn This Place Down (Ecco, 2025). She’s an essayist and a columnist for Literary Hub whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, the New Republic, GQ, and Esquire, among others. She hosted The Maris Review, an intimate author interview podcast, from 2018 to 2023, and now The Maris Review lives on as a newsletter. She was previously the editorial director of Book of the Month, the editorial director of digital content at B&N.com and a publishing outreach lead at Kickstarter.
Authors Priyanka Mattoo and Emily Nemens sit down to discuss their latest novels that explore the pleasures and challenges of midlife. Whether in the fictional world of Clutch, or the personal stories in How to Be Less Useful, both authors question our professional priorities and the joy that really matters most. Moderated by author Maris Kreizman.
Maris Kreizman reads from her debut essay collection at Portland Art Museum in the Northwest Art gallery.
