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New York Magazine @nymag.com This is New York: Intelligencer, The Cut, Vulture, Curbed, Grub Street, The Strategist. Subscribe: http://nymag.com/subscribe
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Natalie Shutler @natalieshut.bsky.social features editor at WSJ, here to observe
Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://knguyen.org
Meghan McCarron @meghanmccarron.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering food & culture. Work in NYT, Atlantic, Bon Appetit. Also a science fiction writer. Recent work in Lightspeed. Nebula & World Fantasy finalist. I live in Los Angeles.
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
A @alansytsma.bsky.social @alansytsma.bsky.social
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social Prof of History at The New School | Author, FIT NATION (2023) + CLASSROOM WARS (2015) | Last Pod: EXTREME for BBC | Words: WSJ, MS NOW, NYT, CHE, etc | Fellow, Carnegie Corp/NEH Public Scholar | Mom | NYC
David Blum @dblum.bsky.social former: EIC, The Village Voice, Kindle Singles, Audible Originals current: writer
Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social Social dynamics and online culture from the hybrid mind of a terminally online-normie mom https://www.cartoonshateher.com
will peischel @willpeischel.bsky.social copacetic, biodegradable fact-checker @ nymag willpeischel.com + will.peischel@nymag.com
Benjamin Wallace @benwallace.bsky.social Next: The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto (Crown, 2025). Previously: The Billionaire's Vinegar, New York magazine, Vanity Fair. www.benjaminwallace.net
David Marcus @davidmarcus.bsky.social Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
Zak Cheney-Rice @zakcheneyrice.bsky.social features and columns @nymag email zak.cheney-rice@nymag.com author archive https://nymag.com/author/zak-cheney-rice/ x (still there, unfortunately) @zakcheneyrice
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/the-last-straight-woman-by-phoebe-maltz-bovy/ Opinion ed., The CJN, contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos.
Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social I write about the economy for the opinion pages of The New York Times. Verification: https://go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti 📚 Buy my book 'Abortion' at prh.com/abortion
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
Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social I wrote for websites & I wrote for magazines & I wrote a book called SHARP & I wrote a TV show called THE ACT & now I hope to find some meaning in life again (but am unfortunately mired in Hollywood) 🇨🇦
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill. https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
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
Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
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.
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social Into #birding, #CrossFit, & sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow" More at https://calebcrain.substack.com & https://steamthing.com. New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain
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
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her. https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she
Amy O'Leary @amyoleary.bsky.social Non-traditional narrative & media strategy. Formerly NYT, This American Life, Upworthy, Headspace and One Project.
Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social culture editor, NYTimes Opinion novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY I wear suits now
Vulture @vulture.com devouring culture.
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.
Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social Books and culture columnist for Slate
J @jazzloon.bsky.social @jazzloon.bsky.social
Helaine Olen @helaineolen.bsky.social A woman with many opinions, all my own. American Economic Liberties Project/contributing columnist MSNBC. Previously: WaPo, Slate. LA/NYC.
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
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
Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social https://www.harpercollins.com/products/one-more-than-one-jessica-winter?variant=45306334806050
Willa @willa.bsky.social Slate, Decoder Ring, previously cared about television
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Madison Malone Kircher @4evrmalone.bsky.social
Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social New York Times reporter. 5’9”
Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive!
allison davis @babymeatballs.bsky.social
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.
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel THE BREAKUP Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century. Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY https://www.kurtandersen.com
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
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
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
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down https://www.themarisreview.com/ https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social Your critic and co-listener // ex-Washington Post // reccos/rants/prayers/curses at thefutureisourstomake.substack.com // contact me: christopherpaulrichards at proton dot me
Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social Rolling Stone/Senior Writer It's impossible to see Who I'm waiting for in my raincoat --Julia Holter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2JgMniIpRM&list=RDX2JgMniIpRM&start_radio=1
Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social features @ new york magazine wrote a book about pyramid schemes https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421/little-bosses-everywhere-by-bridget-read/
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social As seen in The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The Atlantic, various other places that went out of business but I was just freelancing, hi. www.bydanbrooks.com
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
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Choire @choire.bsky.social I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative. Love freedom of expression, digital ownership, libraries, and fun. Avatar by @carmenjohns.bsky.social maria |at| flaminghydra |dot| com mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social this is a Star Trek opinions account
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social media reporter @semafor
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios)
Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian ContrarianNews.org Portland, Oregon Send tips via Signal: TimD.503 Stay connected: TimDickinson.co
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer in film, vulture, etc mostly on ig
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
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.
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
S Sarah Miller @sarahlovescali.bsky.social I love heelers