Orange County Review of Books @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social Book reviews from Orange County, California, and beyond.
https://ocreviewofbooks.org/
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
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Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social An annual $50,000 winning prize and two $10,000 finalist prizes for outstanding adult non-fiction books focusing on African American history or culture.
Dan Storyev ☀️ Дэн Сторев @storyevtime.bsky.social Mysterious Russian soul understander. Occasional academic/photo/journo. Frmr Managing editor OVD-info. Views & typos mine. he/он/el.
T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com American fiction writer equally devoted to novels and short stories.
Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of POETRY magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Rhae Lynn Barnes @popcultureamerica.bsky.social 
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
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.- R Ray Ratto @rayratto.bsky.social Defector dancing bear.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social Film Critic @ Tribune News Service & @latimes.com
Veep @lafilmcritics.bsky.social / member @nsfc.bsky.social
Adjunct @ USC School of Cinematic Arts
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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Kit Haggard @kithaggard.bsky.social Freelance editor | fiction in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere | MCC Artist Fellow + Bread Loaf Scholar 2022 | repped by @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social | (she/her)
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Jo Marchant @jomarchant.bsky.social Science journalist and NYT bestselling author of Cure, Decoding the Heavens, The Human Cosmos and In Search of Now www.jomarchant.com
David Grann @davidgrann.bsky.social Author of The Wager, Killers of The Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, The White Darkness, and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. Also a longtime New Yorker writer. 
Fighting in the War Room @fitwr.bsky.social It's a podcast! Hosted by David Ehrlich, Dave Gonzales, Matt Patches, and Katey Rich
People Magazine @people.com The #1 source for celebrity news and inspiring stories. ✨
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson @stayseajackson.bsky.social Mixed-handed person born from left-handed parents. Literary Futurologist. Poet. Playwright. Artist. Collector. The Ephemera Collector @liverightbooks available now in hardback and audiobook. Paperback available March 2026
Jill Owens Leigh @jillowensleigh.bsky.social Book person. PNW rep for WW Norton. Formerly Cursor Literary, Powell's.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
st.donoghue @stdonoghue-1945.bsky.social Boston editor, critic, and stone-cold super-hottie
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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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
BILL OAKLEY @thatbilloakley.bsky.social Culinary Event Producer, Food Enthusiast & Former Showrunner of “The Simpsons”
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social Twitter’s Maggie Serota. Writer. Frequent podcast guest.
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Michael McKean @mjmckean.bsky.social Actor, songwriter, husband, father, reader, listener.
Ettingermentum @ettingermentum.bsky.social www.ettingermentum.news
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
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Mahogany L. Browne @mobrowne.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Alchemist.
Gina Iaquinta @giaquinta.bsky.social senior editor @liverightpub
W. W. Norton UK @wwnortonuk.bsky.social 📚 Independent publishers since 1923
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HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Oliver Wearing @oliverwearing.bsky.social Senior Publicist at WW Norton UK. F1 & Taylor Swift enthusiast (in other words: annoying). All views my own but frankly you're welcome to them!
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🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. Defector’s ALL BALL NFL podcast debuts 9/9. I’m just here for a good time.
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social this is a Star Trek opinions account 
Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social How would you like to have your thick strawberry goo?
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
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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/
emma @emmastefansky.bsky.social 
Zach Lowe @zachlowenba.bsky.social https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvIa7IOHJ9/
Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social NEWSLETTER: https://www.premiereparty.com/ | Partnerships & sponsorships 📩 sarah@collective.media
Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social Webby Award-winning Actor/Comedian/Podcaster • Dead Eyes • The George Lucas Talk Show • CONNOR RATLIFF presents THE ACTING CLASS • "Deputy Kent" on WIDOW'S BAY • ALSO: Disney's Stitch & DuckTales comics written w/James III!
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Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Still being followed by the teenage FBI
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."
David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social Chief Film Critic at http://RollingStone.com. Obsessive. Compulsive. Disorderly. President of the Chishu Ryu Fan Club. NYFCC, NSFC, NSFW.
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
Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social CFCA President - Editor http://RogerEbert.com - Bylines at Vulture, AV Club, NYT, GQ, Arrow, The Playlist, Rolling Stone, LA Times, elsewhere - Producer CCFF - Father of 3 Boys - Not Vince Gilligan
Tasha Robinson @tasharobinson.bsky.social Freelance editor/writer. Former editor at Polygon, Verge, The Dissolve, A.V. Club. Next Picture Show podcaster. My wheelhouse is full of weird stuff. She/her.
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Goodreads.com/user/show/10244904-tasha-robinson
Nextpictureshow.net
Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social Writer/film critic at tyburrswatchlist.com. Ex-Boston Globe, WaPo, EW. Pulitzer Finalist, 2017. Books at https://tinyurl.com/ytpycuh3. “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news” — Brecht. KanMu.74
Box Office Guru @boxofficeguru.bsky.social Founder and Editor, http://BoxOfficeGuru.com. Est 1997. Providing film industry analysis and data for 27 years. AMPAS member.
DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net Your leading source for quick reliable news and one of a kind content. Home for healthy and liberating discussion on all things pop culture.
Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.social Host, The Big Picture • Watch and Listen: https://tinyurl.com/2f3tkx89 • Writer, Projections • Subscribe: https://tinyurl.com/4xexb4wt • See you at the movies
Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social Film critic of the LA Times and host of the podcast Unspooled.
Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle.
IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social blank check // the atlantic // hits different let’s go mets
david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social indiewire film critic. 
Katey Rich @kateyrich.bsky.social The Ankler | Prestige Junkie and Fighting in the War Room podcasts | I agree, it’s great to be fine 
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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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
Shirley Li @shirklesxp.bsky.social The Atlantic staff writer. Zach Woods EGOT campaign manager. EW alum. sli@theatlantic.com
Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social cherished idiot / writer on SHŌGUN and KENNEDY (2027) and POINT BREAK (2027)
karen han @karenhan.bsky.social 🍒 screenwriter and culture writer
🍊 author of BONG JOON HO: DISSIDENT CINEMA
🍋 reps: lit entertainment/uta
🍐 krnyhan@gmail.com
🫐 https://www.karenhan.org
Marie Bardi-Salinas @mariebardi.bsky.social One of the all-time greats
Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social Let’s count the rings around my eyes
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Film Comment Magazine [Unofficial] @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
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Film Junk @filmjunk.bsky.social The longest-running movie podcast. Weekly movie reviews and banter among friends.
Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social Modern-day folk hero. For a good time, call willsloan.ca
Brian Saur @bobfreelander.bsky.social Co-host of New Beverly’s Pure Cinema Podcast.
https://pca.st/podcast/1d88b970-d2b6-0134-ebcf-4114446340cb
https://thenewbev.com/blog/category/podcasts/
Runs Just The Discs Podcast + YouTube.
Letterboxd adherent: https://letterboxd.com/rupertpupkin/
Peter Kuplowsky @peterkapow.bsky.social Film curator (TIFF Midnight Madness) and indie producer (THE VOID, PSYCHO GOREMAN, THE ARTIFICE GIRL, COUNTRY GOLD, IN A VIOLENT NATURE, EVERY HEAVY THING).
Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/justindecloux, Podcasts: THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB, THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST, Feature Film Director: IMPOSSIBLE HORROR, Book Writer: RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN
Blank Check with Griffin & David @blankcheck.bsky.social Sometimes those checks clear, and sometimes they bounce, baby! Your favorite movie podcast's favorite movie podcast, hosted by Griffin Newman and David Sims.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com 📚Book lover & whatnot📚
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David Bixenspan @davidbix.com Wait, what?
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Kirsten Bakis @kirstenbakis.com Author: King Nyx, Lives of the Monster Dogs. Awards: Bram Stoker, Whiting, Sustainable Arts. Finalist Women's Prize for Fiction. Rep: Janklow & Nesbit. Teach@Yale Writers Workshop. 🌱 💚 she/they