Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. he/him
the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com Strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy.
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Meg Lemke @meglemke.bsky.social COMING TO SPX COME SEE MY PANEL ON SATURDAYYYY Comics reviews editor at Publishers Weekly / Editor in Chief @muthamagazine.bsky.social / #books #babies #brooklyn
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
Censorship Cases Bot @censorship.bots.law Real-time updates on the latest book censorship cases. Curated by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Hosted by @free.law.
Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social Overcaffeinated Kentuckian in Massachusetts. Librarian. Professor. Trustee. Ask me about #GraphicMedicine. Trying to be kind, do good, and read comics. (He/Him)
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Pegasus Books @pegasus-books.bsky.social An independent publisher of books that stimulate the intellect & the imagination.
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New York, NY
The University of Tennessee Press @utpress.bsky.social The Volunteer State’s book publisher, est. 1940.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
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William Cooper, Author @wcooperbooks.bsky.social Civics. Psychology. The intersection between the two. https://will-cooper.com/
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social PhD candidate/historian/writer•♥️ history+art history, literary childhoods, intellectual pasts, books, prints, myths, maps, fairy tales, old sites, the cozy+kind• Canadian🍁 #ElbowsUp• #GoSensGo #BlueJays50• (my other account is hacked)•♥️ kindness🍃•
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social CEO of The Atlantic. Going out of business soon, since 1857.
Author of “The Running Ground: A father, a son, and the simplest of sports.”
Libro.fm @libro.fm 🎧 The audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops
💗 Certified B Corp
🔗 Shop, sign up, find bookshops, & more: www.libro.fm
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social personal account. past: tfgh, cdc, emory. interests: health policy, law, & politics, global health. big fan of: human rights, vaccines, universal healthcare, and abiding no hatred. shares/likes ≠ endorsements. he/his/him.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1946. Home of AUWA Books, Quanta Books, FSG Originals, and Picador.
Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
Nonprofit bookstore of Hub City Writers Project
Sister store to @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Home of Zora Nelle, #hubkitty
Lisa Zerkle @lisazerkle.bsky.social Poet•Editor•Reader
•Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly
•Podcast Manager for PBQ Slush Pile
•Editor at Iron Oak Editions
•MFA from Warren Wilson
📖 my work ⤵
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/lzerkle
Canarium Books @canariumbooks.bsky.social A poetry press. Paris, Marfa, NYC, Chicago.
www.canarium.org
Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social Founded in 2001, we publish work that opens readers to the many ways language may bring new insight & an elevated respect for, and appreciation of, differences.
https://www.omnidawn.com/
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Kate Nicholls @katenicholls1.bsky.social Author, homeschool consultant. Lives in Rome. No DM’s pls.
https://www.katenicholls.org/
https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-maternal-element-9781784633998
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social Author of Blue Colonial, The Americans, and the forthcoming Darkness for Beginners (Spring, 2027). Director of Left Margin LIT. Director of Content at The Adroit Journal. Old Man Basketball Commissioner. www.davidroderick.com
betsyfagin.bsky.social @betsyfagin.bsky.social Poet :: guide :: conspirator
Zine maker, author of self-driving (Autumn House), Fires Seen From Space (Winter Editions) & All is not yet lost (Belladonna)
https://tomorrow-never-happens.ghost.io/
Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social A house of poetry overlooking the Hudson River - a library, literary center, & locus of poetic inspiration. //
Brown Books Publishing Group @brownbooks.bsky.social Independent Publisher based in Dallas, TX
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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social The Third Wheel is a lit mag conceived as a hub for literary translators.
https://thethirdwheel.org/
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Grove Atlantic @groveatlantic.bsky.social Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
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jason allen-paisant @jallenpaisant.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the TS Eliot Prize. THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS out now. Feticeiro da Jamaica 🇯🇲.
Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. Writer-in-residence at the University of Minnesota. Teach in the Bennington MFA. www.lancenrichardson.com
Julia Preston @juliaprestonno.bsky.social 
Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social www.annie-abrams.com
EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social Let's support America's libraries. America's Library PAC.
Learn more : linktr.ee/_everylibrary_
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social Author of books out or forthcoming from HarperTeen, Feminist Press, and Princeton University Press. Also writes a Substack about the Great Books (with frequent detours to talk trash on contemporary literature)
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Jonathan Shainin @shainin.bsky.social 
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
https://linktr.ee/bkbookfest
2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com Author, dad, professor, doodler, loafer
https://www.fulmerford.com
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social Reviews architecture, in New York.
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Andover Bookstore @andoverbookstore.bsky.social America’s Oldest Indie Bookstore
Est. 1809
📍 Andover, MA
Time is soft here.
Center for Justice Innovation @innovatingjustice.bsky.social Building community justice in partnership with communities, courts, and the people most impacted.
Learn more: https://www.innovatingjustice.org/
kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Sara Balabanlilar @sarab.bsky.social books, movies, loafing
Ugly Duckling Presse @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social nonprofit publisher of experimental poetry, translation, performance, and the absurd // keeping poetry ugly for over 20 years
https://linktr.ee/uglyducklingprs
Elizabeth EH Corbus @eehc92.bsky.social Literacy advocate. SF and Maine. I’m searching for my glasses in all the wrong places.
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
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Jeremy Wang-Iverson @jwi.bsky.social Publicist (Vesto PR) | Book Work on Substack
📪 jeremy@vestopr.com
📚 http://www.vestopr.com
✍️ https://derekkrissoff.substack.com/
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan
substack: pershmail.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information.
publishersweekly.com
CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social Big Indie Establishment Mom & Pop Press in Troy, NY Publishing Beach Reads from Hell. Skeets by Christoph Paul.
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Nathan Baschez @nbaschez.bsky.social Building, and writing
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social Author of ACCIDENTAL GODS: ON MEN UNWITTINGLY TURNED DIVINE (Metropolitan/ Granta). Essays in the LRB, NYRB, TLS, The Nation & elsewhere. Senior editor at Bidoun.
www.annadellasubin.com
Rachelle Newbold @newbold.bsky.social Library marketer. Big time reader. California obsessed. Kindness advocate. Rebuilding my feed one great writer at a time ✨
www.rachellenewbold.com
Renee Xia @reneexia.bsky.social Co-Executive director, Chinese Human Rights Defenders @CHRDnet.bsky.social www.NCHRD.org
"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." - MLK
Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social 
Laura J. Snyder @laurajsnyder.bsky.social Writing Oliver Sacks #biography @AAKnopf. Philosophical Breakfast Club. Eye of the Beholder. NEH Public Scholar, Sloan/Leon Levy Fellow. Website: LauraJSnyder.com. Working my way through entire run of Murder She Wrote. Proud mom @UChicago ‘26 
Julia Preston @juliaprestonnow.bsky.social Journalist, writer. Former Marshall Project, NYT. All things immigration. Facts, please. And civil debate. Democracy is good, let's keep it.
Stephen Mortland @stephenmortland.bsky.social writer
Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social I've written biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and Robert J. Oppenheimer and am currently preoccupied with climate change. My passions include music and ancient churches. I am proud to be a volunteer tour guide at Salisbury Cathedral.
Edward Lucas @edwardlucas.bsky.social Journalist, author, thinktanker, baker, swimmer, politician. Lifelong Kremlin-basher.
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Laura Kolb @laurakolb.bsky.social early modernist, mostly
https://laurakolb.com/
Charles Graeber @charlesgraeber.bsky.social Author journalist cartoonist and speaker. Named plaintiff in A.I. piracy suit. Website info for whistleblowers and inquiries. charlesgraeber dot com. Signed books https://bit.ly/3EsVeWi . Books: The Breakthrough #cancer #immunotherapy, The Good Nurse
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. @etgrayjr.bsky.social Poet, translator, critic, corporate consultant. www.etgrayjr.com
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Dr Katie Gaddini @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social Associate Prof of Sociology
@UCL | Research Fellow @Stanford | 'Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right' June 2026 with @Norton
Jorge Carrión @jorgecarrion21.bsky.social Escritor, curador, diseñador de narrativas. Autor de novelas como Las huellas o Membrana; ensayos como Librerías o Lo viral; y en colaboración, podcasts, cómics, expos. Newsletter en Substack. Fotos librescas en IG. Todos mis proyectos: www.jorgecarrion.me
Nicholson Baker @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
Words & Money @wordsandmoney.bsky.social A new media venture from former PW and LJ reporter Andrew Richard Albanese and book biz veteran Erin Cox, featuring in-depth reporting and analysis centering libraries in the 21st Century reading enterprise.
Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social Boone, Smitty, Tech Exec #3 (deleted scene)
https://open.substack.com/pub/hotdogcode
Sven Birkerts @birkerts.bsky.social 
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Rebecca Steinitz @rsteinitz.bsky.social I write. I read. I help people write and read. I’m more radical than most people but liberal compared to my family. www.rebeccasteinitz.com
https://notquitesureredux.substack.com/
Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social Senior writer, Intelligencer/New York Magazine. Bible Bonkers professional
Zito @zeets.bsky.social “It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
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BJ Mendelson ❌👑 @bjmendelson.com I want to train 5% of Americans to be 1% better at protecting themselves from fascists and weirdos. Here's how:
https://www.stupidsexyprivacy.com
Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com Sharing news about my endeavors and enthusiasms. Publicist since 2001. Independent.
Logo design: Mark McCoy. Photo: Joanna Tillman.
laurencerand.com
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
trying to prod productively
Rebecca Chase @rebeccachaseauthor.bsky.social Writes romance that's flirty, dirty and deliciously irresistible.
I write F1, rugby, bodyguard and small town romance.
rebeccahchase.com/my-links