Sasha/Cielo Hemon @sashahemon.bsky.social Writer
Screenwriter
Music Producer and DJ (as Cielo Hemon)
Professor
Dipleša
Sarajevo
Princeton
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Library Pizza @librarypizza.bsky.social Library Pizza is a hot and ready podcast about reading with generous toppings, voluptuous stink lines, and just enough grease. Hosted by @mikemeginnis.bsky.social. Links to various feeds at librarypizza.com.
American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators.
https://literarytranslators.org/
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social 
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
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.
Marian Schwartz @mbs51.bsky.social 
Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social Translating Czech -> English: linktr.ee/AlexZucker
Organizing: New York Dignity Not Detention | Immigration Justice Working Group, SURJ NYC | Literary Translators Division, NWU | #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social Translator, editor, writer, poet
Sophie Murguia @sophiemurguia.bsky.social deputy managing editor at Mother Jones. pitch me: smurguia@motherjones.com
Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.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
Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
Portland Hearts of Pine @heartsofpine.bsky.social The soccer club of Maine ♥️🌲
bekah waalkes @bekahwaalkes.bsky.social writer, critic, postdoc / https://bekahwaalkes.com
Brian A. Anderson @thebanderson.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Pulitzer-winning editor. LOUD AND CLEAR, my book on the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), out now in hardcover and paperback.
@angelarodel.bsky.social @angelarodel.bsky.social 
Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social Independent publisher of literature from the Global Majority.
Read international. Read intersectional.
John Paul Davis @johnpauldavis.org Poet, musician, web developer. Author of Climbing A Burning Rope, Pitt Poetry, 2024 & Crown Prince Of Rabbits, Great Weather for Media, 2017 | husband of @mahirakakkar.bsky.social
http://www.johnpauldavis.org/links
33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social Short books about legendary albums and music genres. 📚 🎶 Published by Bloomsbury.
Explore the 33 1/3 hub! ⬇️
www.bloomsbury.com/33-13-hub
apohadion theater @apohadion.bsky.social D.I.Y. performance space
107 hanover st - portland, maine
email: theapohadion@gmail.com
Website: http://www.apohadiontheater.org
Portland, ME - Bluesky Hub @theportlandhub.bsky.social The Bluesky Hub for everything Portland, ME
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Radio Junkdrawer @radiojunkdrawer.bsky.social mister pence
wednesdays 4p eastern
maine | portland
in the air | 90.9 FM
in the stream | wmpg.org
in the app | wmpg
show archive: wmpg.org/show/radiojunkdrawer
playlists: https://spinitron.com/WMPG/show/166827/Radio-Junk-Drawer
Annella @annella.bsky.social Host of the Morning Beat on WMPG
Northern Irelander, Londoner and Portlander
Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art Brokensymmetry.art
Habitual line-stepper. Aka Tyler in Portland. Jerrybase.com and heads.social admin. Artist and deadhead. NBA, kayaking and PNW outdoors life, jazz, hiphop, bluegrass, experimental/modern rock, weird Bandcamp jams. Cats.
Lissie Jaquette @lissiejaquette.bsky.social Executive Director at Words Without Borders | Arabic translator, most recently of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, and of works by Rania Mamoun, Basma Abdel Aziz, Dima Wannous & more
Kris Johnsen @krisgjohnsen.bsky.social Artist living and working in Portland, Maine.
🫀Art. VHS. Records. Lou Dog. Music.
✏️Curator of Quiet Tide Goods.
www.linktr.ee/krisjohnsen
Anne K Yoder @annekyoder.bsky.social author of The Enhancers; part-time pill pusher; jack of all trades at Meekling Press
Anne Ishii @ill-iterate.com My thoughts reflect nothing for no one. Not even sunlight. PHL<<NYC<<LA<<JPN<<KOR
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Steve Reddicliffe @steveredd13.bsky.social Editor, new NYT Essential Book of Cocktails. Prev: NYT (Intl Edition, Travel, Media), TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly.
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social El Chabon perdura.
https://msha.ke/handmadeplaylists
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
David Lemieux @davidlemieux.bsky.social Grateful Dead legacy manager and archivist. I just stopped in 'cause I want to say...
Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social novelist, historian, amateur hoofer | www.dianejosefowicz.com | THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL is just out from @sohopress
Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her
You'll find me on my ebike.
Jeremy Koenig @jeremykoenig.bsky.social High-School English Teacher outside Washington, DC. Hexagonal libraries, translated literature, Bach, UConn basketball, distance running, & crosswords. Substack: https://tlit.substack.com
Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia).
Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
Michael Holtmann @michaelholtmann.bsky.social Gadabout. Book person. President of the Center for the Art of Translation and its imprint Two Lines Press. (Image: "Opticks 008" detail, Hiroshi Sugimoto.)
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Maine Public @mainepublic.org 📻 📺 🖥️
Official account for Maine's @npr.org and PBS member station.
Reach us at comments@mainepublic.org. News tips at tellmemore@mainepublic.org.
Portland Food Map @portlandfoodmap.bsky.social The definitive guide to the Portland and Maine food scenes.
Kelsey Halliday Johnson @plutobandit.bsky.social
for the first time ever it feels hyper-critical to say: views/re-shares are absolutely only my own. 🦀
SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social SPACE is a launchpad for ideas, an ever-evolving creative resource, a performing arts venue, gallery, and maker hub in Portland Maine, since 2002. space538.org
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian.bsky.social Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.
Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social 💀 INACTIVE PROFILE 💀
Visit http://instagram.com/weird_friction or https://x.com/Weird_Friction to see any and all new updates.
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social Bot account of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
Rich Mahan @sg-marshall.bsky.social Official Blue Sky account for Rich Mahan: Singing, songwriting guitar picking Mexican Food addict. Producer and Co-Host of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast.
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.
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Non-profit extraordinaire, Gen-X, raconteur, fiesty yogi, and student of life. Writer. Send Harold's!
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
WMPG 90.9FM @wmpg.org Radio from the University of Southern Maine. 90.9FM or stream via wmpg.org or our app.
Caroline Losneck @carolinelosneck.bsky.social Portland, Maine.
documentarian + podcast/radio producer + filmmaker + explorer
www.carolinelosneck.com
Dr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social Writer (Prototype, The London Magazine, Art Monthly, Elephant, Wallpaper*, The Arts Desk, Worms, Plinth, Burlington Contemp. etc). Dr (PhD Wollstonecraft, Bodies). Founding EIC of Lucy Writers.
For writing & Fane/Book events: https://linktr.ee/hhgsparkles
Jonathan Bousfield @jonbousfield.bsky.social Lives in Zagreb, wanders around a bit
Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
Dead Studies @deadstudies.heads.social.ap.brid.gy An automated feed to aggregate updates from scholarly Grateful Dead blogs & other sites. Operated by @bourgwick. Art by @4CPcomics.
[bridged from https://heads.social/@DeadStudies on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Michael Barron @michaelbarron.bsky.social former editor at New Directions & Melville House | current board member at And Other Stories | writer of fiction and non.
michaelbarron.co
@sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social Sandorf Passage publishes work that creates a prismatic perspective on what it means to live in a globalized world. It is a home to writing inspired by both conflict zones and the dangers of complacency.
https://sandorfpassage.org
Anthony Garrett @anthonygarrett.bsky.social novelist, editor @atmosphericquarterly.com
Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social Academic, writer, book reviewer of Russian/East European/FSU immigrant literatures
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog about literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w/ Olga Zilberbourg
Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social the cleveland of reviews of books
clereviewofbooks.com
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
Beyond The Zero Podcast @beyondthezero.bsky.social We discuss books with writers, translators and critics from around the world. 
Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (Dalkey) APHASIA (FSG) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (Coffee House Press).
W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List @wastemailinglist.bsky.social Keep cool but care. Leaving traces of my bookish compulsions around the internet. Find me on YouTube, Instagram, Substack, and an assortment of Podcasts. Seth
Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Harvard Square's landmark independent bookstore since 1932. Visit us at Harvard.com
Powell's Books @powells.bsky.social The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
Sophie Vershbow @svershbow.bsky.social Writer: NY Mag, Esquire, The Atlantic, Vogue, etc. Head of Social Media @ tech job. Mostly posting about dogs & books. Opinions all mine. vershbowiswriting@gmail.com
https://www.sophievershbow.com/writing
@boriskachka.bsky.social @boriskachka.bsky.social 
Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
James @exhaustdata.bsky.social Thumbs down
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).
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
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
linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 27th November 2025. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social Independent music journalism. No algorithms. We promise.
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
21stCenturyDead @21stcenturydead.bsky.social Picasso Moon or bust
Dreamflower @dreamflower127.bsky.social Volunteer tomato. Masshole. Books, music, ephemera. #BMFS lifer. For tarot readings: https://dreamflowertarot.my.canva.site/welcome-to-dreamflower-tarot
🔮✨️💚🌸💀🎶❄️
Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social Publisher of the world's greatest cartoonists!
fantagraphics.com
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Debbie Millman @debbiemillman.bsky.social Chair, Masters in Branding at the School of Visual Arts; Host of the podcast Design Matters; Editorial Director of PrintMag.com, Board Member of Joyful Heart Foundation, Harvard Business School Exec Fellow
Kat Kinsman @katkinsman.bsky.social Executive features editor at Food & Wine, host of Tinfoil Swans, author of Hi, Anxiety, and fan of dogs.