Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social Author of 5 books, most recently the essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE. New novel REVEAL! forthcoming in Spring '28
Former Book Fight podcast co-host. @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey.
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Tullia @tulliatulliola.bsky.social Retired librarian.
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Lynne Raughley @lynneraughley.bsky.social Still hoping in the dark.
@vinkayem.bsky.social @vinkayem.bsky.social Read banned books. Protect the LGBTQ+ community. Believe in science. ITNBC currently NED! Fuck cancer! She/her
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social The Official Account of the Iris Murdoch Society
Bergotte @twofoldtwilight.bsky.social Big fan of novels, movies, and music. Writing a long-form narrative over on substack.
https://twofoldtwilight.substack.com/
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com Novelist (ORDINARY BEAR, SMALL ANIMALS CAUGHT IN TRAPS), nonfiction writer (CHASING ALASKA). Pacific NW/Alaska expat in Rhode Island exile. Dogs, books, boats. Feet in the ocean, head in the clouds. Find me at www.cbbernard.com.
Eloise Kane @eloi.se Archaeology, writing, research, cheese. PhD in hares.
📖 Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain (April 2026)
Ferrier of children. Normally lost.
Matt Keeley @matt-keeley.bsky.social Frequent reader and occasional reviewer
Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Author - Holly Jackson @holly-jackson.bsky.social British YA mystery & thriller author. Creator of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and standalone thrillers. True-crime lover & gamer. Out here supporting fellow writers!
Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Holly-Jackson/author/B07QKBC6JZ?
Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social American/British Swiss resident. Builders tea, indie publishers, and editing till it hurts ❤️🔥♾️
Swedish_librarian @stefannordin.bsky.social Grovkulturarbetare.
Librarian with a love for lowbrow culture. Love italian exploitation films and 60:s adventure novels.
Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social Avid reader, dog walker, and occasional poet. “It is not everyone,” said Elinor, who has your passion for dead leaves.” Jane Austen
Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social Writer and public policy advocate. Let’s keep democracy and get rid of gun violence, not the other way around.
TracyHahnBurkett.com
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
dr. amelia chesley @plaidsicle.bsky.social I teach technical writing. I research podcast transcripts. other than that... All The Crafts
Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social Novelist, editor, fiction addict. Author of GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (film coming in 2025!) and HEART ATTACK WATCH. Opinions expressed here are my own, as far as I know.
https://god-is-an-astronaut.com
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
The Tournament of Books @tournamentofbooks.com An annual battle royale between 16 of the best novels published in the previous year
Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov U.S. Senator from the great state of Michigan. Working to boost the middle class, protect our country, our kids and our democracy. Former national security official.
Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social Frasier farceur, and co-perpetrator of several other TV shows. Lyricist, playwright. Novels: Blue Heaven, Putting On The Ritz, My Lucky Star. Awards available on request, or I'll just work them into our next conversation.
K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
fuck AI & fuck fascism
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
Sara Habein @sarahabein.bsky.social Montana person. Writer. Reader. Co-founder Electric City Creative. She/her
Books and music stuff here:
https://www.instagram.com/glorifiedloveletters/
Glorified Love Letters newsletter: https://buttondown.com/glorifiedloveletters
Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social Writer. *Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House* (Ecco/Harpercollins). The Katrina Experience oral history project. “Ferry Cross the Mersey” (2021 Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize). Harlem, NYC. Born in Detroit.
Header image by Sirin Thada.
Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social Contributing writer, TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sarahposner
Host, Reign of Error podcast: https://www.axismundi.us/podcasts/reign-of-error
Author, Unholy
More: https://www.sarahposner.com
jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social public service. deep breaths, long horizons.
The Detroiter @detroiter.bsky.social Detroit, Sarcasm, West Ham, Food, Sports, Bookworm, Historian
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
J. Howard Rosier @jhowardrosier.bsky.social Board member, @bookcritics.bsky.social; words NYT, Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation, Words Without Borders, etc.; associate director of editorial at UIC.
Christoph Irmscher @chrisirmscher.bsky.social Literary critic & book reviewer. http://christophirmscher.com.
Sati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social Poet: Deś (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2027), Eye (Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press 2023). Recent work in Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, SWWIM, MER, RHINO.
satimookherjee.com
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social Regularly I’ll post a non-paywalled link to a short story by an interesting author. Afterwards I will repost your feedback to the stories. Throughout the month I’ll post literature related links and images. 
Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine.
Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social Let's reduce economic inequality & build a just, environmentally sustainable society.
Joys include ale, good conversation, travel, literature & theatre.
Interests include design, green engineering & international development.
Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon. Blog etc at saracatterall.com
Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social 🖤 Author
🖤 THE BELLES (S&S / Atria, 2025) southern gothic x dark academia
🖤 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (S&S / Atria, coming 2027) Sapphic Tim Burton meets Grey Gardens
🖤 ME: https://www.laceyndunham.com/links
Typhaneyb 📚aka sourdoughriot @typhaneyb.bsky.social She/Her
Mom, web dev by day, bibliophile by night, sky nerd & a not so serious sourdough baker
Consummate internet tinkerer since dial up
Reader of all genres; fantasy, historical fiction, and dystopian sci-fi are top favs
https://beacons.page/typhaneyb
Michael @michaelsten.bsky.social A books📚, films🎬, photography📸, music🎶, and knowledge📖 lover from Malta (Europe). I’m always happy to follow back and get to know people 😊.
Margo Laurie @margo-writing.bsky.social Scribbler, history lover, fan of old Hollywood. RNA member. 📚💃🍰 🎬 #writingcommunity #historicalfiction
Margaret Choke-a-Bitch @meeses.bsky.social I am short.
Fretful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social Lost to almost everything but a vague sense of jam and idleness.
Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social books, book chat, wildflowers, pond plants
Helenka Stachera @henkys.bsky.social Reader, children’s writer, library lover 📚she/her
Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social
Writer you almost but don’t quite remember from 20 years ago.
New novel! Kosha (Blackstone, 2027)
Past novels: The Ice Beneath You, Voodoo Lounge, In Hoboken
Past lives: NPR commentaries; guitar; soldier
NewHope, PA & WestCapeMay, NJ
baumansbrain.com
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social writer teacher dramaturg Every house has a door
everyhousehasadoor.org
Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social Author of “Requiem for a College.”
Substack: Loving the Alien.
Husband, dog dad, English and rhetoric professor, writer, advocate.
University of Berwyn.
Keith 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @oneworld-onelife.bsky.social "So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.” Bede
Inherently skeptical but trying not to be cynical
Michael Scott Author @flamelauthor.bsky.social Author of the New York Times' bestselling series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel http://dillonscott.com 
Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social Co-owner of the Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social. Writer. Reader. Co-host of John Updike’s Ghost, a books podcast: pod.link/1594686894
Valerie Nies @valerieknees.bsky.social Comedy - poetry - gluten
Author of SNACKS FOR THE LOVE HUNGRY http://bit.ly/snax4luvbezos
LiteraryVienna @literaryvienna.bsky.social Zitate, die wir lieben. Aus Wien und anderen Orten.
Our favorite quotes, from Vienna and other places.
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa, AGI). LRB reader. 2025-26 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Nick Arvin @nickarvin.bsky.social Author of MAD BOY from Europa Editions + 3 other books of fiction. Writing in the NYer, NYT, WSJ, Ploughshares. Two times winner of the Colorado Book Award. Also, an engineer! Technical and consulting work in green energy. Colorado based.
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social An editors' group with experience at top publishers: Judy Sternlight, Patricia Mulcahy, Jane Rosenman, Leslie Wells, Sulay Hernandez, Anne Horowitz.
https://www.5eeditors.com/
Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. Novella forthcoming with @regalhouse.bsky.social. #authorsguild https://lawrencecoates.com/
Story @storymag.bsky.social Your favorite literary magazine since 1931. We mean, you know, aside from the previous three times we ceased publication. We love short stories, basketball, and cupcakes.
Joan from the Bronx @joanfromthebronx.bsky.social My name is Joan, so I must be a Boomer. Writer of mostly unpublished work, and the very occasional public television show. Refugee from the legal profession.
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Elizabeth Gonzalez James @egjames.bsky.social Screenwriter and author of The Bullet Swallower, Mona at Sea.
“Middling” — The Michigan Daily
Strand Bookstore @strandbooks.com Legendary home of 18 miles of new, used & rare books since 1927. Located at Union Square and UWS.📚 Shop online at http://strandbooks.com
Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Deutschstunden' from CulturBooks and 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
BetsyGriebs @bgriebs.bsky.social Chgo area dog & book lover. User of profanity. Work at Winnetka Public Library where access to info and banned books are always available. Dad was in WWII, husband served as Peace Corps Volunteer in Yemen. Use your head, it’s not just a hat rack. 💙📚🐕☘️
Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Alberta. Forest ecology + tree physiology. he/il
The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com 
Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
https://onebrightbook.com/
Eivind Throndsen @throndsen.bsky.social Nysgjerrig, glad i lesing, elsykling og mat. Klima-engasjert. Cis, han/ham.
@codycaige.bsky.social @codycaige.bsky.social Curious & quiet
Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com Reader. Writer. Big fan of human rights for everyone.
Pronouns: she/her. Pronounce: EX-teen.
Physical location: Silicon Valley, CA. Digital location: lisaeckstein.com
Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social Avid reader and gardener. Gardening in USDA zones 5 and 9 and reading everywhere and inbetween.
Baby You Can Change And Still Choose Savannah Thorpe Capizzi @savthorpecap.bsky.social Black lady comrade press sec in Lancaster Pennsylvania. I like the muppets and my husband and trains and good music and line dancing and vintage clothes and freedom for the homies. She/her. https://linktr.ee/savthorpecap. Posts are just mine! Go to stuff!
blythe drive @cherrysour16.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🖤😻🎨☁️🏕️🎶🍄🟫🏔️🧠📷
love and equality for all!
original posts are from my creative brain and owned by me. let me show you the world in my eyes. -dm
Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social Author of the novel A Burning, nominated for the National Book Award, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and the ALA Carnegie Medal
Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social 🇲🇽Writer | Artivist | Editor |
Books: We Exist in the Whisper, Prayer Holding Night, Why I am Like Tequila
Founder, Tintero Projects
TX Poet Laureate Emeritus (2022-23)
linktr.ee/the.lupemendez
Claire McAlpine 📚 @clairewords.bsky.social Reads, Reviews at Word by Word
#WITMonth Women in translation, Irish Lit,
Nature Writing, Creative Non-fiction
Adoptee
France
clairemcalpine.com 📚
flairesse.com 🕊🙏🏻🇫🇷
Rob Spence @spencro.bsky.social Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social Wikipedian, photographer, Librivoxer, retired patent attorney. Chair of Frome Museum in Somerset.
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
There Must And Shall Be Aspirin @boscobel1975.bsky.social There’s more to life than books you know…
#MDANT
Bernie Hughes @agentmancuso.bsky.social A strong song tows/ us, long earsick.
Blind, we follow/ rain slant, spray flick
to fields we do not know.
NancyKay Shapiro 📖🎸🎶🐶🗽🧶 @nancykay-alt-acct.bsky.social NancyKay or NK. New Yorker, lady of a certain age, ever curious, queer, flaneuse.
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Books, pop music(s), fine art, humor, history, cities, TV, dogs, Star Trek, #Spirk, etc.
Fic: archiveofourown.org/users/Herself_nyc/
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Fix your heart, or die.
kristina kearns @kristinakearns.bsky.social publishing and nonprofit consultant
formerly fitzcarraldo and mcsweeney's
currently resides elsewhere
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/