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@be-ar-s.bsky.social @be-ar-s.bsky.social Jazz, other kinds of music, baseball (go O's!), comics, movies
Ben Sigurdson @bensigurdson.bsky.social Literary editor, drinks writer, Winnipeg Free Press; wine list maker, The Common. Mediocre curler, runner and drummer. Party ruiner.
Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social‬. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social reporting, writing, editing climate change stories @thebulletin.org // outdoorsy newsletter: jessicastarmckenzie.com/newsletter // tips: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org, jsmckenzie@protonmail.com, or jessimckenzi.01 on signal
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social Los Angeles
Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social Author of THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE (2023), AT HOME IN THE STARS (2029) | series editor of THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING || she/her || jaimegreen.net
Mary Bannister (MaryB) @maryb2004.bsky.social Hates being re-posted. Retired M&A lawyer. StL Cards Fan. Avid reader. Some Favorite Authors: Dorothy Dunnett, Louise Erdrich, AS Byatt, Iain Pears, Robertson Davies. New France history buff. http://alonewitheachother.blogspot.com
Jules Wernersbach @juliewbach.bsky.social Founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer indie bookstore in Bushwick. Debut novel WORK TO DO coming from University of Iowa Press 2026.
Cody @codybaird.bsky.social Southern California, nowhere, and everywhere. Books, movies/TV, music, sports, etc.
@grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃 Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science. Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY www.surekhadavies.org Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social Politics Editor for @washingtonmonthly.com
Elizabeth Weil @lizweil.bsky.social “great story!”— Judith Butler. Feature writer, @nymag (before that: “propublica, @nytmag).
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Jamie Burkart @jamieburkart.bsky.social A lot of effort for a one yard loss Please don't dominate the rap, Jack if you've got nothing new to say Phish, Beer, Birds, Phils, CFB, iRacing, & other nonsense
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers. New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime. Rep: Aevitas
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026. https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + upstate wordsinspace.net
Tim Gamgee @gamgeegardens.bsky.social Artbots, birds, politics, Tolkien etc. Treehugger. Retired bookseller. Not often following back, I already spend too much time on here. 🙃 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
Emily Zhou @reversibledestiny.bsky.social girlfriends, littlepuss, joyland, full spectrum emilyzhou.neocities.org
Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. & hospitals... Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
Maylin @blithespirit4.bsky.social Canadian living in Liverpool, UK. Knitter, reader, hiker, lover of all textiles and the great outdoors. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller.
Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social Now I am become Jeff, destroyer of worlds. PhD researcher. Outsider Cinema: Marginal Filmmakers in the American Exploitation Film 1960-1985. Booklet editor for @indicator.bsky.social. Freelance film writer.
David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social Autheur. Unfluencer. 'The Beckett List' (2027) 'A Crumpled Swan' (2025) 'Multiple Joyce' (2022) All published by www.saggingmeniscus.com (No DMs)
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Tommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social Writer and editor. Late of "Game Theory With Bomani Jones" on HBO, Mother Jones (no relation), HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, Deadspin, etc. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com. Email: tcraggs22@gmail.com.
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social Teacher. Publisher of the Book-Loving Texan’s Guides to School Board Elections. Co-founder of Texas Freedom to Read Project.
Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social Juarez/El Paso; NYC by marriage; Romania when possible. Social worker/librarian/grad student manqué
Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social Editorial columnist at The Dallas Morning News. Writing about Dallas.
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.
Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer “The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift Marswasrubbish.com https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social editor + writer. New Yorker in Berlin. https://thegoodreview.substack.com/subscribe?params=%5Bobject%20Object%5D
Eagle Harbor Book Co. @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social Established in 1970, Eagle Harbor Book Co. is a full service, locally-owned and proudly independent bookstore located on Bainbridge Island, WA. With an extensive selection of books and gifts, we're the perfect "destination bookshop"
bijan @bijan.bsky.social writer. music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social, making @dearannagame.bsky.social | prev. @compulsiongames.bsky.social @valvesoftware.com got writing work? inquire within: bijanstephen.blog/about
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.social Old-growth timber enjoyer
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
@streitfeld.bsky.social @streitfeld.bsky.social
Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social Yelling into a well.
H Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social
Mark McGurl @markmcgurl.bsky.social
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2026 Best Mystery Stories of the Year. Medium tall.
Jan Petříček @janpetricek.bsky.social nefilozof, takypřekladatel
Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social 'A plain, unvarnished Preston man.' Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Writer, AGI researcher, wine industry professional. Interests: books, futurology, historiographic metafiction, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity
Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social The bookish neuroscientist ™
Jules Winter @roq11.bsky.social I love my friends and books and am a nerd for languages and their history. Also movies, photography, sports and Billie the Cat.
Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social Reading. Cycling. Education. https://substack.com/@dan1997690?r=4hxm6&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social Journalist, nouvelle-lettrist, and unionist at The Atlantic. Rubber City -> Bull City. dgraham@theatlantic.com NYT bestseller THE PROJECT out now: https://smarturl.it/GHz99R
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer. 13.1🏃🏼‍♂️✅, 26.2🏃‍♂️✅
Texas Highways @texashighways.bsky.social The official travel magazine of Texas. On the road since 1974. https://texashighways.com
Rachel Kambury @rkambury.bsky.social enthusiast / unionized word-worker / associate editor (nf) @ harpercollins currently reading: UNDROWNED by Alexis Pauline Gumbs opinions are many and varied and very much my own
Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation Crone, Quaker-ish, She/Her whatashrinkthinks.com collectivedreaming.org
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027. https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social Hi
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
veery @veery.bsky.social i have read more than you would fancy, mr. lockwood.
DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social Actor, author, comedian. A good one, even. Dcpierson at gmail dot com Www.dcpierson.com/newsletter
Reticule of Velma @sediziosevoci.bsky.social "No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see—what I don't fear!"
BevoOne @bevowon.bsky.social
David O'Neill @oneillbooks.bsky.social Senior editor @bookforum; friend to animals. Work with me: http://david-oneill-editor.com
Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social Victorian lady invalid, lying in bed surrounded by books. Long covid, ME, other ailments. Bylines in The Sewanee Review, The Sick Times, Jezebel, etc; cohost of Overinvested pod in absentia; working on a novel. she/her https://linktr.ee/morganleighdavies
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social London -> NYC -> Paris. PhD gone public. Writing GOOD LOOKS & BAD MANNERS, a history of American women in Paris. Previously: HOTBED; THE EXTRA WOMAN; FIREBRANDS. A Writer in Paris: joannascutts.substack.com www.joannascutts.com
Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social News junkie, editor, faculty spouse, author of “Book Collecting Now.”
Fallow Media @fallowmedia.bsky.social Adventurous Publisher, since 2015. Dublin, Ireland. https://fallowmedia.com/
Melissa Holbrook Pierson @perfectvehicle.bsky.social Writer, motorcyclist, gadabout-in-training
Matt @mattsuder.bsky.social Omaha 🥌
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Heterodox Academy @heterodoxacademy.bsky.social Nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to protecting open inquiry in higher education. Work in higher ed? Become a member: https://heterodoxacademy.org/become-a-member/
Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social Playing like a champion. Just my stuff: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4biy4v5nhe6h2wh25oveas64/feed/aaanqkdaizoek
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manjula martin @manjula.bsky.social writer/rocker/Luddite 🌸🔥🌲🌊 https://www.manjulamartin.com/
Bergotte @twofoldtwilight.bsky.social Big fan of novels, movies, and music. Writing a long-form narrative over on substack. https://twofoldtwilight.substack.com/
Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Journalist. Created @thebarbedwire.com. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird. Wanna work together? oliviamesser@protonmail.com
Trashcan Sinatras @trashcansinatras.bsky.social Not a band, but a group. Scots West Coast Delta Blues. www.trashcansinatras.com
Francis Reader @francisreader.bsky.social Trashcan Sinatras, Southern California enclave. https://www.patreon.com/c/trashcansinatras. https://www.instagram.com/thetrashcansinatras/. https://www.facebook.com/thetrashcansinatras/
Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social Translator
Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social Senior editor @ LARB, freelance culture writer, mom in the DC burbs. Here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
Saul Austerlitz @saulausterlitz.bsky.social
@mystupidrecords.bsky.social @mystupidrecords.bsky.social
Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social This is a personal account, and there might not be as many baseball posts as you might expect! This is for the best. For a midlife crisis expressed through record collecting, follow me @mystupidrecords.bsky.social
Grace Lovelace @crowdsstops.bsky.social Culture writer, PhD, child minder. Bylines in the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere
Just some random weirdo @justarandomweirdo.bsky.social *vague disgruntled screeching* | she/her | Minneapolis | fuck ICE
Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt. matthewlevay.com
Neil Serven @neilserven.bsky.social Fiction & essays, novel in progress. Co-owner @federalstbooks.bsky.social . Candlepin bowler. Language stuff. A lot of crank air. Used to write the dictionary. Western Massachusetts.
Briggsy @briggz.bsky.social Avid reader, overthinker, sometimes poet, bread enthusiast, coffee snob.
@estherp.bsky.social @estherp.bsky.social Reader, writer, watcher, listener, New Englander.
Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.