Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social Author | Essayist | Translator | Reviewer
A portfolio of work in progress, published book projects, articles, essays, interviews, reviews and translations dating back to the 1980s.
Literary Arts | Performing Arts | Art of Translation | Visual Arts
Jim McQuaid - Turnip Films @turnipfilms.bsky.social If your profile says nothing about you I’m unlikely to follow you back.
Once a view camera guy. Now filmmaker & in NC. 20+ short films, stories of human connection. Also work as DP, AD. Moderating screenwriters group since 2016.
www.turnipfilms.com
biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social biblioklept.org
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG). HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury), @UGMAN (ITNA). Hero: John Berger. Dog: Berger
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social Author of The Casualties, China's Forgotten People, et al. Shortlisted for Novel Prize. Rep'd by Pew Literary https://www.the-tls.com/authors/nick-holdstock www.nickholdstock.com Porcupine, a novel, out in December. Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
Huw Nesbitt @huwnesbitt.bsky.social writer and editor
huwnesbitt.xyz
John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social writer and researcher, covering books, films, and psychoactivity, in no particular order. a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited.
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Max M. Marin @maxmmarin.bsky.social Reporter at Philadelphia Inquirer, investigations team.
The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social Owner of themodernnovel.org
Jessica Van Meir @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social
This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social Books and Film | The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast with @bibliopaul.bsky.social | 2017 Best Translated Book Award Judge
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social Independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions.
wakefieldpress.com
Denise Kripper @denisekripper.bsky.social Writer & translator
denisekripper.com
📍 Chicago / Buenos Aires
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Eva Aeolus @evaaeolus.bsky.social Languages of place. Researcher, writer, creator. Possessor of oversized map archive and far too many books.
Johnny Clafoutis @johnnyclafoutis.bsky.social I write about books and many other things here:
https://johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/
Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social (she/her) Reader, executive editor HarperOne Group, teach Publishing Works in Translation @NYU SPS, translator (French, Spanish), musician (Tissue, Boundaries)
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Lucy Bailey @labailey.bsky.social Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social translator of Italian &c. “irresistibly drawn by a web of thrilling daydreams awash on a shore of panic”. 🇮🇹 🇬🇷
Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social Writer, translator, general semantic drudge. https://paradisealmanc.substack.com/- T Tess Lewis @tesslewis.bsky.social Writer and translator from French and German. Walter Benjamin, Montaigne, Lutz Seiler, Maja Haderlap, etc. tesslewis.org
Thomas Murphy @thomasmurphy.bsky.social mobilised by the shock of their difference, they light up in reciprocal reflections—like a virtual stream of fireworks over jewels
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Germán Sierra @germansierra.bsky.social 
Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social Co-host of The Mookse And The Gripes podcast with @mookse | 2023 @USRofC judge | Slowly and happily burying myself in books
Nathan Rostron @monosyllabicism.bsky.social Furious curious. Associate Publisher: McNallyEditions.com. Book editor and publishing consultant: nathanrostron.com
McNally Editions @mcnallyeditions.com A publishing line devoted to elevating unduly overlooked books and authors, from McNally Jackson Books.
mcnallyeditions.com
Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social Author, WASTE (Bloomsbury) | PhD: UC Irvine | fiction @ Fallow Journal; non-fiction @ Guardian, The Atlantic, Salon, 3AMMagazine &c. | writing a Great Novel™ or two for you
Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social public library worker. editor for the empyrean series + former practitioner of literary translation (FR>EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin.
www.michellebailatjones.com
Jonathan Buckley @jcbuckley.bsky.social Novelist
Merve @merverlag.bsky.social Publishing Theory Publishing
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social Novelist and literary critic. Most recent books “What Just Happened” (Knopf) and “An Extravagant Death” (Minotaur) available in paperback.
flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social potter / Begriffsgeschichte
Marcel @sibaerisch.bsky.social writer
Houman Barekat @houmanbarekat.bsky.social ‘Après le déluge, moi’ - French flooding investigator
https://www.houmanbarekat.com
xyzzzz @xyzzzz.bsky.social Yet another place!
Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social humanities, writing, translation / PhD candidate Université Paris Cité / ECHELLES
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/
Esther Allen @eallen.bsky.social Translator, writer, CUNY prof, martiana. estherallen.com
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social FREELANCE WRITER- K Nikolaus Perneczky @kinolaus.bsky.social Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Currently working on postdoc project "Restitution and the Moving Image" (Leverhulme EC Fellowship) & monograph "Against Development: African Cinema as Worldmaking" (Oxford UP).
Shaun Whiteside @shaunwhiteside.bsky.social Family translation (DE, FR, IT, NL) cooking travel cats books films and stuff. From Dungannon.
Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social Translator
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social Writes on the history & theory of the novel. Lecturer in Modern Literature at Leicester. Book: TROUBLING LATE MODERNISM (https://tinyurl.com/592f5me2).
Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
Matthias Friedrich @nordicnovellas.bsky.social Literaturübersetzer Norwegisch/Dänisch/Schwedisch/Katalanisch-Deutsch. U. a. Leif Høghaug, Ida Marie Hede, Adrià Pujol Cruells, Prudenci Bertrana.
https://literaturuebersetzungen-friedrich.de/
Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
Eric M. B. Becker @ericmbbecker.bsky.social Digital Director & Senior Editor @wwborders; @NEAarts fellow; translator from Portuguese; finalist, PEN Translation Prize; board @PELTAtweets. Work in New York Times, Freeman's, Foreign Policy, and more.
lnk.bio/ericmbbecker
Kevin Lozano @kevinlozano.bsky.social editor producer at bloomberg's odd lots
The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
D. A. Denison @daveadenison.bsky.social Writer at Large for The Baffler mag. Based in Massachusetts. Once a young reporter at The Texas Observer. Latest work on Texas politics and #populism here:
https://thebaffler.com/civilifications/low-t-for-texas-denison
National Book Foundation @nationalbook.bsky.social National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America. 
Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
Andy Hunter @andyhunter777.bsky.social Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org; co-Creator and Publisher, Literary Hub; co-founder and Chairman, Electric Literature
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social- J Jennifer Krasinski @jenniferkrasinski.bsky.social Writer | Critic @4columns @Artforum @Bookforum @newyorkermag and elsewhere
Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social 
Emily Wells @emilyennui.bsky.social writer, A MATTER OF APPEARANCE out now https://www.emilywells.net/
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social big art bell fan. internet culture reporter all over & default.blog
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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social Deep Vellum. Dalkey Archive. Dallas, Texas. 
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ 🏳️🌈 🖤💚❤️ 🏳️⚧️ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo © Mario Sorrenti)
Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social Founder of The Untranslated, a blog about significant literary works not yet translated into English
https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/
Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social Slang Lexicographer.
https://greensdictofslang.com
https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com
https://jonathongreen.substack.com
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Lizzie Davis @lizziedavis.bsky.social Editor and rights manager at Transit Books. Translator from Spanish and Italian (next up: Daniela Tarazona, Pilar Fraile, Begoña Gómez Urzaiz).
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer