Across The Pond Podcast @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social A literary podcast hosted by Lori Feathers and Sam Jordison. Author interviews, publishing news and comment on classic and contemporary fiction.
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social GQ Correspondent, NYT Mag, NatGeo, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, Garden & Gun, This American Life, et. al. Author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution. Three James Beard awards. https://linktr.ee/brettsy
http://www.brettmartin.org
Fadi Zaghmout @fadizaghmout.bsky.social Jordanian feminist Scifi author of 5 novels. The Bride of Amman, Heaven on Earth, LAILA, The Man of Middling Height, Hope on Earth.
@adabiyat.bsky.social @adabiyat.bsky.social
David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
Douglas Arthur @douglasarthur.bsky.social Writer
http://www.douglasamartin.com
Kigo conjurer
https://theinternationalsocietyofhaikupoets.com/
*often reposting what I want to remind myself to read + haiku, senryu, etc.
Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Fmr White House Sr Policy Advisor | Fmr Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: fieldsmeyer.com
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
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.
Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social okra eater.
@hannahallam.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
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Personal account
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it
J. David McSwane @davidmcswane.bsky.social Reporter @propublica.org
Author, “Pandemic, Inc.”
Colorado boy. 🐏
david.mcswane@propublica.org.
Signal: 202-556-3836
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
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.
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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gregorg @greg.org Artist, writer, publisher of greg dot org: the making of since 2001, "a [Cady] Noland obsessive" —T Mag [avatar: Édouard Manet Facsimile Object (M1), Minnay; banner: Derek Jarman's Blue]
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social earthquake aficionado & disaster studies scholar. outreach lead for PNSN; views and posts my own. now returned to the salish sea, but in the words of my former mayor, “you know first stop is always istanbul."
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker. “Enron,” “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Going Clear,” “The Inventor,” “Wise Guy: David Chase & the Sopranos,” & lots more. Now Maine man. Celtics fan.
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Charlotte Whittle @charlotte-whittle.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish (Norah Lange, Irene Vallejo, Elisa Victoria, Jorge Comensal...). Writer. Currently @uealdc MA Prose Fiction. Queen Sofía Translation Prize 2023. Norwich <> NYC.
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social https://minorliteratures.com/
Rastko Lazic @rastkolazic.bsky.social
Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com Author: Tigers Between Empires (2025). Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020, Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PEN America winner, Nat Book Award longlist). Work: Regional Director Temperate Asia @wcs.org. Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght
Maaza Mengiste @maazamengiste.bsky.social Writes many words: Beneath the Lion's Gaze, The Shadow King, & the next one.
Believes in film: mostly Tri-X, sometimes Portra.
There's something out there, and it is us.
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social oh well, okay
Shaimaa Abulebda @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social AHRC SGSAH PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh researching Palestinian speculative fiction.
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
Chris Baty @chrisbaty.bsky.social Writer, former word nerd at Figma, and founder of NaNoWriMo.
Doing NaNoWriMo this fall? Check out www.nano2.org!
🏝️Alameda, CA
Daniel Saldaña París @dsparis.bsky.social Escritor de libros.
Cullman Center Fellow 2022. Finalista Premio Herralde 2021. Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award 2020.
English y español aquí.
Sarah Fox @sfoxoz.bsky.social
Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social Writer/Journalist.
Debut novel coming in early 2027.
Nonfiction: SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN (NYT Editors' Choice), WITCHES OF AMERICA (NYT Notable Book), longform journalism, doc AMERICAN MYSTIC (Kino Lorber).
Cheryl Strayed @cherylstrayed.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social artist/mutant
editor @minorliteratures.bsky.social
Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social Translator
Robin Moger @robinmoger.bsky.social L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social “To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti
Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA | Bad at email
Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Investigative reporter and researcher: abortion, reproductive justice, disinformation.
Seen in The Nation, ELLE, Scientific American, WIRED, and more. Wyoming-born New Yorker.
Signal: garnethenderson.12
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 مسمن.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Roy Tsao @roytsao.bsky.social Teaching political theory/philosophy etc at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; Shax & co. at BC/CUNY. bird stalker. tweet tweet. 🏳️🌈
Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social Sarabande Books Director & EIC @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Founder at @zinemachine.bsky.social
Poet, translator, chaos virgo
linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Aditi Machado @aditimachado.bsky.social Poet of EMPORIUM and SOME BEHEADINGS (both Nightboats). Does translation, essay writing, teaching, gardening, wine consumption.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Views my own. https://marshallsteinbaum.org/
Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social Reviews editor for EVENT magazine. Writer of Plain Pleasures, an occasional newsletter about books. She/her. Vancouver → Montreal
mave @mave.bsky.social if anyone needs me, i’ll be in the lagoon
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Alex Pheby @alexpheby.bsky.social Writer: GRACE/PLAYTHINGS/LUCIA/MORDEW/MALARKOI/WATERBLACK
Galley Beggar Press and Tor
Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA
Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social 2 hypooneiric 2 curiolatrous
Jé Wilson @jewilsn.bsky.social ânesse
https://parrotje.tumblr.com/essays
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social
Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social PhD candidate and freelance writer for hire | Researching intersections between Spiritualism, queerness and the First World War
www.nadiabailey.com
@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social 100% reader-funded. All works free to republish/use/translate. All works co-authored by Tim Foley.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/
John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social https://www.johnlurieart.com/
Painting with John streaming on Max
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social Artist & writer working between language & action. Art, attention, poetry, and Zen. My book is The Uses of Art. Co-founder of dispersed holdings, a publishing project. She/they.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/salrandolph
The Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social Black News, Politics, Arts & Culture.
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
Dr Diva Amon @divaamon.bsky.social 🇹🇹🇬🇧 | Marine Biologist | #deepsea
Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social Writer (Julia, The Heavens, The Men, How Not to Write a Novel, etc.)
she/they
A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior @azforeman.bsky.social Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
Dan Visel @withhiddennoise.net I make books at Circumference Books, and I work at the Internet Archive.
Starlee Kine @starleekine.bsky.social
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social An online magazine & micropublisher. ALQ & Books: http://arablit.org/ * Reader-supported: http://patreon.com/arablit, http://arablit.gumroad.com * PACBI signatory
Ricardo Cortés @rmcortes.bsky.social Artist / Author / #1 NYT bestseller / Drug theory / Design truther / working on picture books about studios and alien communication. Rmcortes.com
Sasha/Cielo Hemon @sashahemon.bsky.social Writer
Screenwriter
Music Producer and DJ (as Cielo Hemon)
Professor
Dipleša
Sarajevo
Princeton
Nina Renata Aron @ninarenataaron.bsky.social Writing about books, art, food 🤍Author of GOOD MORNING, DESTROYER OF MEN’S SOULS 📖 https://www.ninarenataaron.com 📚 newsletter about reading: https://ninarenataaron.substack.com
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
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
Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social Daydreamers (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social), The Hell Screens alvinlu.co
alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly
IG: @alina_pleskova
alinapleskova.com
The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
thepointmag.com