Bryan Alistair Charles @bryanacharles.bsky.social Writer in midst of disorienting midlife free fall / Author of a novel, a memoir, and a book about Pavement written for 33 1/3 / Broken Hearts Are Blue guitarist / Amateur Proust scholar bryanalistaircharles.com
Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social Editor at Barrelhouse. Professor at Temple University. Union rep. Author of Notes from the Road (Awst Press). World’s #1 Cat Dad.
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: I review Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/arts/emily-st-john-mandel-exit-party/
james folta @jamesfolta.com // staff writer @literaryhub.bsky.social //
// managing editor @pointsincase.com //
// hangin' tuff @nyc //
// jamesfolta.com //
Penzler Publishers @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social Independent publisher of mystery fiction, thrillers, and true crime. Home of The Mysterious Press, American Mystery Classics, and Crime Ink, with offices in NYC's legendary Mysterious Bookshop. penzlerpublishers.com.
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Stephanie Gorton (she/her) @sdgorton.bsky.social Author, THE ICON & THE IDEALIST and CITIZEN REPORTERS. Writing in @newyorker, @parisreview, elsewhere. Find me online at stephaniegorton.com and on Instagram @sdgorton.
Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social Books, tea, omens, ink. KILL ALL WIZARDS is out now. Coming soon: two new volumes of the Wildendrem adventure game setting (Phantom Mill Games) and DEVOURING GODS (Tordotcom Publishing).
thirdarchive.net | ninepinpress.com
Kelly Caldwell @kkc212.bsky.social Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social Author of SEDUCTION THEORY (Little, Brown 2025). Stories in Granta, The Point, and Joyland. Editor at Great Place Books. 
Great Place Books @greatplacebooks.bsky.social greatplacebooks.com
Emily Jeffers Johnson @emilyjjohnson.bsky.social Interested in culture, nature, books, architecture, music | works at Trinity College Dublin | PhD in Digital Humanities and Literature
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
Ann C. Morris @anncmorris.bsky.social Biologist studying retinal development and regeneration at the University of Kentucky. Books, baking, birds, bourbon.
hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social Philosopher, cognitive scientist, writer
Books:
Linguistic Bodies (shorturl.at/bd5NS)
Denken over Liefde (shorturl.at/dH5Qt)
Participatory sense-making
Loving and knowing
she/her
masking
WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social The freeform station of the nation! Independent, creative, rocking radio. Skeeter behind the curtain: @dmandl.bsky.social. Submit music via http://wfmu.org/sendmusic.html. Sorry, but we're too busy shopping for records to respond to DMs. Listen: wfmu.org
Noor Azrieh @noorazrieh.bsky.social Host/producer @canadaland.com covering Canadian politics. noor@canadaland.com
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social Producer, writer, singer.
Editor, @niemanstoryboard.org
Podcasts @ursastory.bsky.social
Music: https://www.instagram.com/markarmsmusic
Founder (emeritus) of Longreads
markarms.com
Galen Beebe @galenbeebe.bsky.social Love of words, lover of sounds, maker of both.
galenbeebe.com
UbuWeb @ubuweb.bsky.social Founded in 1996: http://ubu.com
Vox @vox.com Making sense of it all. Become a member today. 👇
https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/z3EPda
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Chris Carosi @ccarriages.bsky.social poems/Pittsburgh. publishing professional for 10+ years, sales operations at Heyday, formerly at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
Lily Rugo @lilyrugo.bsky.social Bookseller and blogger. Unfortunately I’m that person with a newsletter: https://lilyrugo.me/
(she/her)
Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Harvard Square's landmark independent bookstore since 1932. Visit us at Harvard.com
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social 19C russophone lit studies scholar interested in genre, realism, the novel, gothic, digital humanities, and environmental humanities 👻 book nerd and Data-Sitter 📚 transnational dumpling enthusiast 🥟 https://katherinebowers.hcommons.org
Sound School Podcast @soundschoolpodcast.bsky.social The bi-weekly podcast with the backstory to great audio storytelling from @prx.org and @transom.bsky.social. Produced by @rob-rosenthal.bsky.social. https://transom.org/topics/soundschool/
Eric McD | Hill @ NPR @ericm.cd Congress Reporter, NPR News
📨 stories by email: list.ericm.cd/subscription/form
🛜 RSS: ericm.cd/feeds/eric_mcdaniel.xml
ericmcdaniel.92 on Signal
The Indignataries @wildergoose.bsky.social You don't have to look up the word "biome" to know we're all connected. Science, science fiction writer. Music and book reviews. Music on co-operatively owned Subvert and (for now) Bandcamp. Jazz guitarist in the trio Confluence.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Jaye Kranz @jayekranz.bsky.social Audio producer. Poet. Writer. Work on/in BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, ABC RN, The Monthly, Australian Book review. Poems in: Verse Daily, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Florida Review, Best of Australian Poems, Cordite 🌈 https://linktr.ee/jayekranz
Beatles Books Podcast @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social A podcast chatting to the very best Beatle authors and writers - available on all Podcast Apps. Also posting Daily Beatle Content! https://podtail.com/en/podcast/beatles-books/ https://buymeacoffee.com/beatlesbooks
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Mid Century Monster @mollybreakfast.bsky.social they/she/dr - NE MPLS - writer & artist - daily editor for the Chicago Review of Books - Abolish ICE - Free Palestine - Trans rights are human rights - fix ur hearts or 🙂
Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🦋🦋🦋🦋 @amerrill2.bsky.social I do voices and stuff. I also do marketing for things. I write and produce crap and occasionally get on stage and make people laugh. I’m open for work and comic conventions.
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social pyrrhic victor, enemy of fun
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
Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
“Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”
David Wain @davidwain.bsky.social 
Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social Webby Award-winning Actor/Comedian/Podcaster • Dead Eyes • The George Lucas Talk Show • CONNOR RATLIFF presents THE ACTING CLASS • "Deputy Kent" on WIDOW'S BAY • ALSO: Disney's Stitch & DuckTales comics written w/James III!
https://linktr.ee/connorratliff
Matt Apodaca @mattapodaca.bsky.social Mr. podcast + video games. Co-Host of Get Played. Comedian/podcast producer
https://linktr.ee/getplayedpod
Paul Brittain @paulbrittain.bsky.social Comedy. Actor. Writer. Chicago guy. Saturday Night Live/SNL/Comedy Bang Bang/Killing Gunther/ The Simpsons 
Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social Editor-at-Large, Esquire. Here’s a funky introduction of how nice I am. 
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
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.
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Benny Safdie @bowedtie.bsky.social 🦟DADDY LONGLEGS🦟 🏀LENNY COOKE🏀 🎆HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT🎇 🚨GOOD TIME 🚨💎UNCUT GEMS💎 🏡🧿THE CURSE🧿🏡 🥊🏆THE SMASHING MACHINE 🏆🥊
Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social I do the thing
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Jason Zinoman @jasonzinoman.bsky.social Critic at large at New York Times. On comedy column. Authored Letterman, Shock Value. Podcast: The Martin Chronicles.
Joe Hill @joe-hill.bsky.social Author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, and King Sorrow (out in October). Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Soho Press @sohopress.bsky.social Independent book publisher of bold literary voices, award-winning international crime fiction, and groundbreaking horror.
linktr.ee/sohopress
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
Alex Higley @alexhigley.bsky.social TRUE FAILURE (2/25), Coffee House Press
editor, Great Place Books
alexhigley.com
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
@ayeletw.bsky.social @ayeletw.bsky.social 
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social Good evening. My name is John Hodgman. You are invited to join a secret society: hodgman.substack.com
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social El Chabon perdura.
https://msha.ke/handmadeplaylists
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social Not checking this account all that often these days but you can find me here: https://fightweek.substack.com/
The Wandering Albatross @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social A tiny indie bookshop in Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada. Translated literature, travel, offbeat history, walking, geography, folklore & other interesting finds.
287 Bloomfield Main St, around the back. Open Friday - Sunday.
www.wanderingalbatrossbooks.com
Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
Bernie McGill @berniemcgill.bsky.social Writer. Writing Fellow with Royal Literary Fund. Mentor at Irish Writers' Centre. Rep'd by Aitken Alexander. Winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for This Train is For, available at https://noalibis.com/product/this-train-is-for-signed-paperback-edition/
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social Even now, despite everything
Commonplace Podcast @commonplacepod.bsky.social Conversations with Poets and Other People
Hosted by Rachel Zucker
https://www.commonpodcast.com/
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast
Reading with Rachel: Year-long (open to drop-ins!) course:
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Screen Slate @screenslate.bsky.social God’s designated movie website. www.screenslate.com
Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/
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
Sarah Larson @asarahlarson.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer, podcast reviewer, New York Rangers enthusiast 
Jennifer Wilson @jenniferwilson.bsky.social Staff Writer, The New Yorker | jennyfromthebloc.com
Nathan Heller @nathanheller.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer, hapless itinerant, reader.
My concise and infrequent newsletter announces significant new publications, public appearances, and nothing else: nathanheller.substack.com/about
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social staff writer at @newyorker.com // editor-at-large @thedialmag.bsky.social, @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social // jes’ grew carrier
https://www.julianlucas.com
Helen Shaw @helenshaw.bsky.social Theater critic at the New York Times. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
http://facebook.com/shteyngart
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
wajahatmali@protonmail.com
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Jay Allison @jayall.bsky.social Public Media Lifer. Radio & Podcast Guy. Founder: Transom, Moth Radio Hour, WCAI, PRX, Atlantic Public Media, This I Believe, etc. www.jayallison.com
Amy Brady, PhD @amybrady.bsky.social Writing a book about maps | Wrote a book called, Ice: FROM MIXED DRINKS TO SKATING RINKS—A COOL HISTORY OF A HOT COMMODITY | historian & journalist | Newsletter: "Library of Wonders": https://libraryofwonders.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-library
Julie Shapiro @jatomic.bsky.social Listening! A lot, always.
Also: @audioflux.bsky.social
Also: @thehorsethread.bsky.social
Previously: Radiotopia/PRX, Ear Hustle, ABC (down under),Third Coast Int'l Audio Festival, many record stores...