Aubrey Martinson
@aubreymartinson.bsky.social
florida woman; editor @ Crown
www.aubreymartinson.com
www.aubreymartinson.com
Thrilled to see @bridgetgillard.bsky.social's "gripping and instructive" LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE in @washingtonpost.com's best of 2025!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025
The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thrilled to see @bridgetgillard.bsky.social's "gripping and instructive" LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE in @washingtonpost.com's best of 2025!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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Making people buy their freedom back from the government isn't just wrong, it also increases crime.
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/c...
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/c...
Cash bail doesn't reduce crime — or make us safer
Donald Trump's recent executive order isn't tough on crime
www.salon.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Making people buy their freedom back from the government isn't just wrong, it also increases crime.
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/c...
www.salon.com/2025/09/20/c...
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I have big news: I wrote a book!
It’s called The Price of Mercy, and it’s about the violence, cruelty, and dysfunction baked into our legal system, and what we can do about it.
It’s full of real-world stories, hard data, and the voices of people fighting to fix what’s broken.
It’s called The Price of Mercy, and it’s about the violence, cruelty, and dysfunction baked into our legal system, and what we can do about it.
It’s full of real-world stories, hard data, and the voices of people fighting to fix what’s broken.
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have big news: I wrote a book!
It’s called The Price of Mercy, and it’s about the violence, cruelty, and dysfunction baked into our legal system, and what we can do about it.
It’s full of real-world stories, hard data, and the voices of people fighting to fix what’s broken.
It’s called The Price of Mercy, and it’s about the violence, cruelty, and dysfunction baked into our legal system, and what we can do about it.
It’s full of real-world stories, hard data, and the voices of people fighting to fix what’s broken.
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So amped to bring you this episode of Organized Money, our best yet.
We talked to Bridget Read, who wrote a superb book about pyramid schemes & multilevel marketing. We discuss how MLMs prosper by selling the idea of entrepreneurial freedom, its ties to the conservative movement. Great podcast!
We talked to Bridget Read, who wrote a superb book about pyramid schemes & multilevel marketing. We discuss how MLMs prosper by selling the idea of entrepreneurial freedom, its ties to the conservative movement. Great podcast!
Amway, Mary Kay, Herbalife and the Get Rich Quick Business
Welcome to the podcast Organized Money.
www.organizedmoney.fm
July 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So amped to bring you this episode of Organized Money, our best yet.
We talked to Bridget Read, who wrote a superb book about pyramid schemes & multilevel marketing. We discuss how MLMs prosper by selling the idea of entrepreneurial freedom, its ties to the conservative movement. Great podcast!
We talked to Bridget Read, who wrote a superb book about pyramid schemes & multilevel marketing. We discuss how MLMs prosper by selling the idea of entrepreneurial freedom, its ties to the conservative movement. Great podcast!
“Read’s well-reported, entertaining history—of a bluntly predatory business model built on the promise of self-driven social mobility that materializes for only an elite few—is a parable about the United States." @tarpley.bsky.social @bookforum.bsky.social www.bookforum.com/print/3201/c...
Come Sale Away
The fantasy that allows multi-level marketing schemes to thrive
– Tarpley Hitt
www.bookforum.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Read’s well-reported, entertaining history—of a bluntly predatory business model built on the promise of self-driven social mobility that materializes for only an elite few—is a parable about the United States." @tarpley.bsky.social @bookforum.bsky.social www.bookforum.com/print/3201/c...
I Once Thought Fatness Would Ruin My Life. Having a Daughter of My Own Changed That
www.vogue.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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From producer manipulation tactics to coming out on camera, Sarah Hartshorne breaks down her experience as the only plus-size contestant in ‘American’s Next Top Model’ cycle nine.
America’s Next Top Model Was Run Like a Cult
From producer manipulation tactics to coming out on camera, Sarah Hartshorne breaks down her experience as the only plus-size contestant in ‘American’s Next Top Model’ cycle nine.
www.vulture.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
From producer manipulation tactics to coming out on camera, Sarah Hartshorne breaks down her experience as the only plus-size contestant in ‘American’s Next Top Model’ cycle nine.
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Dante! Secret societies! America’s Next Top Model! 20 new books out today. lithub.com/dante-secret...
Dante! Secret societies! America’s Next Top Model! 20 new books out today.
July 4th has passed, and, as we enter the post-holiday rush, it’s worth remembering that, as always, there are new books to look forwards to, despite the difficult chaos of the world. Below, …
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July 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Dante! Secret societies! America’s Next Top Model! 20 new books out today. lithub.com/dante-secret...
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‘America’s Next Top Model’ tried to give Sarah Hartshorne an embarrassing new look, but she had never felt more like herself, she writes in her new memoir.
‘Are You Worried You’ll Look More Plus-Size?’
‘America’s Next Top Model’ tried to give Sarah Hartshorne an embarrassing new look, but she had never felt more like herself, she writes in her new memoir.
www.vulture.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
‘America’s Next Top Model’ tried to give Sarah Hartshorne an embarrassing new look, but she had never felt more like herself, she writes in her new memoir.
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The 19th spoke with Bridget Read about the connection between the core ideology of multi-level marketing ventures and contemporary politics.
What Trump’s politics and your ex-classmate selling skincare have in common
There are MLMs everywhere — including in American politics, Bridget Read writes in her new book.
19thnews.org
June 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The 19th spoke with Bridget Read about the connection between the core ideology of multi-level marketing ventures and contemporary politics.
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I wrote about the grifters who turned door-to-door sales from the most pitiable, loathed job in America to a glamorous once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And other elements of Bridget Read's fantastic new book on the predatory multi-level marketing industry.
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing
Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?
newrepublic.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wrote about the grifters who turned door-to-door sales from the most pitiable, loathed job in America to a glamorous once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And other elements of Bridget Read's fantastic new book on the predatory multi-level marketing industry.
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE is a @nytimes.com Editors' Choice this week! @bridgetgillard.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE is a @nytimes.com Editors' Choice this week! @bridgetgillard.bsky.social
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When people say that LLMs are not actually capable of doing the work that they’re advertised to do, this is a good demonstration of what they mean
June 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
When people say that LLMs are not actually capable of doing the work that they’re advertised to do, this is a good demonstration of what they mean
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Bridget Read has an excellent book about the incredibly deep influence MLMs have had on modern society. Read @ryanlcooper.com's review from our latest print issue: prospect.org/culture/book...
Pyramid Schemes Are Eating American Capitalism
Multilevel marketing companies helped produce President Trump, and he is ruining everything.
prospect.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Bridget Read has an excellent book about the incredibly deep influence MLMs have had on modern society. Read @ryanlcooper.com's review from our latest print issue: prospect.org/culture/book...
In @theatlantic.com today: "A damning portrait . . . .Investigating an industry notorious for doublespeak and euphemism, @bridgetgillard.bsky.social calls things what they are.” www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
An Awkward Truth About American Work
Direct-selling schemes are considered fringe businesses, but their values have bled into the national economy.
www.theatlantic.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In @theatlantic.com today: "A damning portrait . . . .Investigating an industry notorious for doublespeak and euphemism, @bridgetgillard.bsky.social calls things what they are.” www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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I read this book the other day. Strongly recommend. It is especially timely for understanding our weird political moment and the seemingly odd alliances.
May 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I read this book the other day. Strongly recommend. It is especially timely for understanding our weird political moment and the seemingly odd alliances.
Happy pub day to LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE! Getting the attention of the DSA means @bridgetgillard.bsky.social did something right--here's hoping we can prevent the vulnerable from falling for this scam that's gone unchecked for far too long.
May 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Happy pub day to LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE! Getting the attention of the DSA means @bridgetgillard.bsky.social did something right--here's hoping we can prevent the vulnerable from falling for this scam that's gone unchecked for far too long.
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The New York Times says my book Little Bosses Everywhere "reads like a thriller... Read lays out an almost prosecutorial case against multilevel marketing schemes" and "captures the same heartache" of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Ah! Out tomorrow!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/b...
Ah! Out tomorrow!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/b...
Book Review: ‘Little Bosses Everywhere,’ by Bridget Read
Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own sales force.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The New York Times says my book Little Bosses Everywhere "reads like a thriller... Read lays out an almost prosecutorial case against multilevel marketing schemes" and "captures the same heartache" of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Ah! Out tomorrow!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/b...
Ah! Out tomorrow!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/b...
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Just out: one of the most illuminating books I've read on how Trump happened.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...
Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read: 9780593443927 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade Americ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Just out: one of the most illuminating books I've read on how Trump happened.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...