Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social "You think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?" / Feuilletonist / Former arts & media editor of Salon and NPR / Words for New York, Slate, sometimes the Times, other places.
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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
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
Alison Herman @aherman2006.bsky.social tv critic at variety. aherman at variety dot com
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/
Inkoo Kang @inkookang.bsky.social Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social writer/editor/podcaster/moderator. currently writing for Filmmaker, LA Times, AARP. previously on staff at THR, Esquire, Decider, Flavorwire.
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Film critic at Vulture, co-host of the Critical Darlings podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327
Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social Never getting any taller. Senior Reports Editor @ The Verge.
Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • Reverse Shot • Letterboxd • https://www.robertdaniels.me/
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. I talk back.
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
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Suzy Exposito @suzy.bsky.social Retired Florida goth. Award-winning entertainment journalist in LA. Bylines in Vogue + ELLE + Rolling Stone. 🇧🇿🇨🇺🏳️🌈
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
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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.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social blank check // the atlantic // hits different let’s go mets
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social Mary Testa once said I was great. Theater, horror, and Housewives. Co-host of Supporting Actresses. lpeitzman@gmail.com
karen han @karenhan.bsky.social 🍒 screenwriter and culture writer
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social Critic @nytimes.com. The kind of girl who goes to a late movie in the middle of the week, I'm crazy. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out now!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
Choire @choire.bsky.social I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night
Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com Writer. Only work gets done here. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. Beneath the gold, the bitter steel. Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. I will not betray my soul. Fix your hearts or die. Tiocfaidh ár lá
Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.
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pelin @pelin.bsky.social screenwriter and filmmaker i guess 
popular science robinson @saraiya.bsky.social used to write for the internet but that got stressful // FL & NYC & now in #yyc // 🇺🇸/🇨🇦
meg zukin @ilovemydog.bsky.social media girl
Kate Erbland @katerbland.bsky.social Editorial Director, IndieWire. / NYFCC member. / NYC & Vermont. / Likes coffee, cats, and the Oxford comma. / Bird nerd.🦉
Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social writer, etc.
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alyssa bereznak @alyssabereznak.bsky.social @gqmagazine wellness + grooming director. formerly @latimes & @ringer | @alyssabereznak on threads and IG. email me: alyssa_bereznak@condenast.com
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
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Vulture @vulture.com devouring culture.
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social The A.V. Club film critic, programmer, dancer, dog person.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social writer, editor at [redacted], previously @gawker @eater. i am not jenny zhang
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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social Xicana writer/editor. She/her/ella. Editor Hell Gate (hellgatenyc.com), cofounder Hearing Things (hearingthings.co), Vaquera forthcoming on Penguin Books, etc
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .
The Nation's Books & the Arts @booksandthearts.bsky.social Books, music, ideas, film, and criticism from The Nation's "back of the book" https://www.thenation.com/books-and-the-arts/
Rachel Brodsky @rachelbrods.bsky.social Music & Culture Writer/Editor. Words: TIME, Stereogum, LA Times, Rolling Stone, more. Copywriting for DISCO.ac. Co-host of TheInSyncPod 🎧 Say hi: Rebrods26@gmail.com
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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com Keep circulating the tapes.
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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
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allison davis @babymeatballs.bsky.social 
Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social My debut novel about music and love THE SINGER SISTERS (Flatiron) is available at a bookstore near you. 🎶 📖
I edit at feminist quarterly Lilith Magazine. ✊
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Eric Renner Brown @erbrown.bsky.social editing @ billboard
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social Writer. Not too annoying. Books: American Cheese, Away With Words, You Blew it. Bylines: Many of the good places.
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Emma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social I write about TV. Words at many places including The Daily Beast, Elle, Marie Claire, IGN, The Playlist, Backstage Magazine, and more. Talking about costumes, fashion and Felicity’s hair.
ilana kaplan @lanikaps.bsky.social USA Today Best-Selling Author & writer/music editor @ people magazine ✨former senior editor @ alternative press ✍️ @ rolling stone, new york times, gq, npr, vanity fair, etc. ✨ my book nora ephron at the movies is out now via abrams!
Angie Han @ajhan.bsky.social critic @ The Hollywood Reporter
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Matt LeMay @mattlemay.com Just my silly little thoughts
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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social How would you like to have your thick strawberry goo?
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA.
Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
Elisabeth Donnelly @heydonnelly.bsky.social Writer of books, journalism, screenplays. Work in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, The Believer, The Cut, and more. Get in touch:
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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social Film Writer/Critic | ✍🏼 Variety, RogerEbert.com, Vanity Fair, TIME, W Mag, Filmmaker Mag etc. | NYFCC member | 2026 Mill Valley Film Fest Programmer | Dog lover… ♥️
Caitlin Wolper Phillips @cwolper.bsky.social LA?! // sometimes I write about music & culture, sometimes I just copy edit // incredibly eager // famously auditioned for true grit & we bought a zoo — and yes I starred in both 
Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social Vanity Fair correspondent. Author of Stealing the Show. Here, there and everywhere
Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social Writer. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Previously at Vox, other bylines at The Toast and The AV Club. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social Former culture writer, Salon.com. Before that: cofounder, Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Single mom, dog mom, your mom
Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social Culture writer at Vulture / New York Magazine, dungeon crawler, Pulitzer nominee, things of that nature
https://www.vulture.com/author/craig-jenkins/
jill mapes @jillmapes.bsky.social oh, ya know // co-everything, hearing things
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
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Willa @willa.bsky.social Slate, Decoder Ring, previously cared about television 
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Still being followed by the teenage FBI
Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social Culture Journalist for hire | Past: Senior Culture Reporter at HuffPost | Other Bylines: History.com, Bloomberg, Capital B News, Salon, Time, The Daily Beast, and many others | reeltalkonline@gmail.com | candicefrederick.contently.com
Brian Steinberg @bristei.bsky.social Senior TV Editor at Variety, covering media, advertising, sports TV, late night and much more. Also talk about comics and music. 'Some days are diamonds / Some days are rocks'
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social A box office columnist for Puck News, but also head over to The Outside Scoop at Substack for everything else worth reading (box office, reviews, analysis, think pieces, etc.)
https://scottmendelson.substack.com/