BookPeople @bookpeople.com The largest independent bookstore in Texas 📚 A community bound by books located in the heart of downtown Austin.
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
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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social I’m this on every platform you can think of, except for OnlyFans. Words at D Magazine (Arts, City Hall, State Lege, Education, etc.) and one bathroom stall in Waco. Prone to environmental embrittlement. Signal: BEricksonDTX.19
Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
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The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Independent conservation journalist writing a book about fish. Author of CROSSINGS, on #roadecology, and EAGER, on beaver belief.
Brandon Carter @brandonetc.bsky.social staff editor, NYT Opinion. ex-WaPo; NPR. union punk.
Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social
founder-owner, @weareravenous.com. freelance food, culture, & music journalist. texan by way of louisiana. currently pondering a life of crime. WGA East member forever. she/her. // email: amyemccarthy@gmail.com.
Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social I’m the same everywhere. Link to my new podcast + TV show https://linktr.ee/jemelehill?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=55ca250f-2ec3-4d57-afd4-9281b33b8bef
Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/
McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins.bsky.social Staff Writer, The Atlantic. Author of NYT bestseller ROMNEY: A RECKONING.
Ed Caesar @edcaesar.bsky.social Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours". "The Comet" will be published in February 2027. https://celadonbooks.com/book/the-comet/
Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats.
jill.substack.com
NYC/HK
Phil Jankowski @philjankowski.bsky.social I cover the intersection of energy, climate change and politics for the Dallas Morning News. Austin, TX.
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
Jake Swearingen @jakeswearingen.bsky.social Sr Editor at ProPublica
Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories.
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social Writer, linguist. Slips of the tongue, uh & um (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: An anthology, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book on The Strokes is out 9/8/26. Indiecast dude. Writing at Evil Speakers: https://stevenhyden.substack.com
Peter King @peterking1.bsky.social Have a book about my 40 years covering football coming out in October. Preorder: https://linktr.ee/TheGamebyPeterKing
Had a good run at Cincinnati Enquirer, Newsday, SI, ABC, CNN, HBO, The MMQB and NBC.
Chuck the dog pictured.
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
David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold.bsky.social New York Times investigative reporter, writing about the world of nonprofits. CNN political analyst. Please send story tips! daf@nytimes.com
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social Author, LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE, HOW LUCKY, THE TIME HAS COME. Contributing Editor, New York. Columnist, The Washington Post & The Athletic. Writer, MLB. Critic, Grierson & Leitch. Founder, Deadspin. Illini. Mattoonian. https://williamfleitch.substack.com
Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social Special Correspondent for VANITY FAIR. Author of the Jann Wenner bio that Jann Wenner doesn’t want you to read.
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
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Choire @choire.bsky.social I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
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J.B. Sauceda @jaybsauceda.bsky.social Former CEO. Retired photographer. Occasional pilot. Full time storyteller. Chili aficionado. Host of Texas Country Reporter. Texas Monthly staffer.
Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social Pulitzer prize-winning immigrant @propublica covering reproductive health from Texas. ProPublica Union Veep.
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Tony Plohetski @tonyplohetski.bsky.social Austin-based journalist. 🏆: duPont-Columbia; Pulitzer finalist for Uvalde coverage; Texas’ best print and TV journalist in ‘23. 🏳️🌈
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com NBC News senior reporter | Author of THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS | Co-creator of SOUTHLAKE & GRAPEVINE podcasts | Retired t-ball coach
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Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
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.
Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social Executive Editor, WIRED
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Jonathan Meiburg @jonathanmeiburg.bsky.social Writer, musician, caracara publicist.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • contributor @coolzonemedia.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • send tips via Signal: stevanzetti.12
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Luke Knox @lukeknox.me Creative Director, ESPN Visual Storytelling
Mike Piellucci @mikelikessports.bsky.social Senior Editor, D Magazine | Holler at me: mike.piellucci@dmagazine.com
Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social Music journalist, No Depression magazine co-founder. Author of "Old No. 1 at 50: A History of Guy Clark's First Album," published November 2025. Former Seattleite and Austinite, now in SoCal. Lifelong fighter of fascism; hope you are the same.
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
Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social Politics Correspondent, The New York Times.
Brendan O'Meara @brendanomeara.bsky.social Host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast ... The voice of a generation, haha ... Author of The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine (2025) ... https://welcometopitchclub.substack.com/
Fernando Alfonso III @fernalfonso.bsky.social Texas Editor, New York Times
Fernandoalfonso.com
The Pulitzer Prizes @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social It's our 108th year honoring excellence in journalism and the arts. Visit us at http://pulitzer.org. 
Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
Doug Bock Clark @dougbockclark.bsky.social Here to listen. Investigative Reporter: @ProPublica. Past work:
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social By day, investigations editor @defector.com. By night, writing a book about Alice Milliat, who got women's athletics into the Olympics.
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diana@defector.com
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Bob Mehr @bobmehr.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author, 'Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.' 2X Grammy winner (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Dead Man's Pop). Reissue producer. Words for NYT, MOJO, Gannett.
Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social writer and dogsledder, host of story podcast “what to carry, what to burn”
Brian Raftery @brianraftery.bsky.social Author and podcaster. You can pre-order HANNIBAL LECTER: A LIFE here: https://shorturl.at/nMUxV Press queries: rebecca.rozenberg@simonandschuster.com Email: brianraftery@gmail.com
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SXSW @sxsw.com Helping creative people share ideas and achieve their goals since 1987. SXSW 2027: March 15–21 | Austin, TX
Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social Nom de plume of Scott Henson, Austin, TX. Cancer survivor, househusband, recovering policy wonk (justice systems, civil liberties; innocence). "All my friends are buried here, and some of them are dead. So home is where I'll always hang my head."
Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social Reporter at New York Times. marc.tracy@nytimes.com. I'll play through it.
Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social Book editor at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Author of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM: Stories (Penguin Books).
Posts inane & my own. Here now.
www.peterkispert.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Tom Pelissero @tompelissero.bsky.social 🎙️The Ringer 📺 Netflix Sports
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Steven L. Davis @litcoyote.bsky.social Award-winning author. New book: BEATING HEART OF THE WORLD: The Taos Art Colony, the Pueblo Resistance & the Battle for Indigenous America.
Michelle Pitcher @michellepitcher.bsky.social Criminal Justice Reporter at the Texas Observer | I have a Pulitzer lol | AI is making the world worse
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Dylan Baddour @dylanbaddour.bsky.social Covering Texas for Inside Climate
News. Previously reporting from Colombia for WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic, Reuters y más. TX born. Likes plants
Kane Burns @bigpappykane.bsky.social Your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.
Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social Reporter focusing on water and climate change, Los Angeles Times. ian.james@latimes.com
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Astead Herndon bot @astead-mirror.bluesky.bot [unofficial mirror of @AsteadWH] - no longer active
Host of @vox.com’s America, Actually podcast; Political analyst @cnn.com; Former @nytimes.com @bostonglobe.com; Full time Cristian Romero + RHSLC enthusiast
Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social Editorial Director, Features and Special Projects at WIRED.
Reyhan_harmanci@wired.com
Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by Criterion.
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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Courtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social Founder-owner at Ravenous
Jen Hamilton @jenhamiltontx.bsky.social Austin-based writer and teacher. jenhamiltontx.com
Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
Hank Stuever @hankstuever.bsky.social In New Orleans now as managing editor for enterprise journalism at the Times-Picayune and Adovcate news group. NOLA.com, hankstuever.com
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs.
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Alan Fossler @alanfossler.bsky.social Assistant Breaking News Editor and resident designated hitter @houstonchronicle.com
Danette Chavez @danettechavez.bsky.social Editor-In-Chief @avclub.com. Formerly of Primetimer, Polygon, The Chicago Reader. Secretary, @tvcritics.org
CalMatters @calmatters.org CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization. We write stories about California, for Californians.
Boston Magazine @bostonmagazine.bsky.social The best of Boston and the intel you need to find it.
Philadelphia Magazine @phillymag.com The latest news, guides, and opinion from Philadelphia magazine.
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social Texas politics correspondent @nytimes.com | Past: @kutnews.bsky.social @dallasnews.com @houstonchronicle.com @nolanews.bsky.social | FOIA nerd
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social Mostly posting old music, art & lit. Occasional blogger. Dallas native living in Austin. Retired entertainer. I stick to art & gardening now…
Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Music columnist @ salon.com | writing @ jukeboxgraduate.com
clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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Joe O'Connell @therealjoeo.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker and photographer based in Austin, TX. Author of The Contortionists, true-ish historical novel about the amazing Ross Sisters. (Currently seeking agent representation.) More at joeoconnell.com