Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, Washington Independent Review of Books. Loser-in-chief, "Jeopardy!" season 39. "Making it worse? How could it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!"
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social Philadelphia. Texas Monthly writer-at-large. Ex of Austin, Portland, Cincinnati, Missoula. Music, food, sports (no necessarily in that order). 
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social Film critic at Washington City Paper
Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social Dad, husband, promiscuous reader, former music geek, wannabe movie nerd, Montanan, NE DC Canine Knucklehead Ward co-founder, C-SPAN director of editorial operations
Mimi Montgomery @mimi-montgomery.bsky.social Axios D.C. reporter | Email me: mimi.montgomery@axios.com | Read my Substack: mimimontgomery.substack.com
Philip Clark @musicclerk.bsky.social Author-journalist (Prospect, NYRB, Spectator, The Wire); Brubeck biographer; new book “Sound and the City" 2027, White Rabbit & Hachette; Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award Winner, 2022.
Info: curtisbrown.co.uk/client/philip-clark
Oxford/London
Steven Ward @wardeditor.bsky.social Magazine Editor - Today in Mississippi. Tamale and unsweet tea fan. Husband. Father. U.S. Navy vet. NOLA raised. Book hoarder.
Jackson, Mississippi.
Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance.bsky.social Politics, media, NYC.
Jim Farber @jimfarbermusic.bsky.social I've been praising and panning music for scores of outlets for over 30 years now.
📧 jim@jimfarbermusic.com
@schaffermichael.bsky.social @schaffermichael.bsky.social 
Robert Bettmann @robertbettmann.bsky.social Moving over from Twitter (finally.) Founder arts non-profit Day Eight. Father and husband. “They do these things when the tree is green what will they do when it is dry?”
Tim Appelo @timappelo.bsky.social Film/TV editor/writer, past at: Hollywood Reporter,EW,The Nation, LAT,NYT,got Bezos to buy IMDb, taught him Beatles lore. Amazon's last human homepage editor, launch editor, what's now Prime Video.
David Murrell @dmurrell.bsky.social Writing magazine articles.
Philly- J @jmlaskas.bsky.social @jmlaskas.bsky.social
Elliot C. Williams @ecwilliams.bsky.social Senior reporter @51st.news ✍🏽 | Signal: ecwilliams.30 | 📧elliotwilliams[at]51st[dot]news
michael gallucci @mgallucci.bsky.social music, movie & pop culture writer. now: managing editor ucr
Jessica Sidman @jessicasidman.bsky.social Food editor, Washingtonian magazine
Alex Bhattacharji @alexb718.bsky.social (He/him) Democracy and Equality Superfan. Writer and Storyteller. Lover of Dogs, the Mutts (Mets), and the Knicks. Flatbush ➡️ LA.
Kristen Parisi @kris10p.bsky.social Senior Workplace DEI Reporter at Morning Brew. Gracie award winner.
Advocate for disability representation in media. Wheelchair user/spinal cord injury survivor.
Tips: signal: @k4326.10
Jim Merlis @jimmerlis.bsky.social Publicist to the stars. Former third basemen of the Jacksonville Suns. Currator of the Alan Hale Jr and Sr film festival.
Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social https://www.seanhowe.com
Dot Dash @dotdashdc.bsky.social band in d.c.
records out on The Beautiful Music & Country Mile labels.
email = dotdashdc@gmail.com | music: dotdashdc.bandcamp.com
Jason Shevrin @jasonshevrin.bsky.social Observing D.C. and media and D.C. media.
I used to write D.C. Media Monitor, a newsletter about the local news industry in the District.
Pug dad. PR person but this is a personal account.
Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social Host, Gloves Off youtube.com/@Gloves-OffPod
The DC Line @dclinenews.bsky.social DC News & Views — the information you need to fully engage in hometown DC. An independent, nonprofit news source led by Chris Kain.
Todd Pruzan @toddpruzan.bsky.social Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur, adipiscing elit.- J Jacob Raim @jraim.bsky.social
Washingtonian @washingtonian.com The magazine Washington lives by. Your guide to all things DC 🌸
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social D.C. reporter, @notus.com Former: @51st.news, WAMU, and DCist.
@karenvalby.bsky.social @karenvalby.bsky.social 
Sarah Godfrey @sarahgodfrey.bsky.social Still a roadie for Digital Underground.
Tali Woodward @taliwoodward.bsky.social Editor in Chief @thetrace.org, a nonprofit newsroom investigating gun violence in America.
https://www.thetrace.org/
Evan Serpick @serpick.bsky.social Baltimore, justice, dogs, and tennis. Former journalist, @city_paper @baltimoremag @rollingstone @ew, now in nonprofit communications. #BlackLivesMatter he/him
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
Melissa Maerz @melissamaerz.bsky.social Author of ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT.
Prev: VICE, Entertainment Weekly, L.A. Times, Vulture.
Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of CATCH THE DEVIL, to be released by Knopf on July 14. https://www.pamelacolloff.com/
Steve M @smoney.bsky.social Here for DC news and discussion, especially transportation, housing, Nats, gay stuff, and food.
Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture.
https://linktr.ee/tromano_writer
Jill Bernstein @jillbernstein.bsky.social Editorial director, Fast Company
Jessica Hart @jlrhart.bsky.social Allison’s mom. 🩷
Safe streets advocate with @safestreetsdc.bsky.social
Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social he/him - DC - law student, democratic socialist, erstwhile organizer, trekkie
Jeff Labrecque @jefflabrecque.bsky.social Former entertainment journalist. True believer in the transformative power of higher education and the mission to make it affordable for all. 
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Dan Fierman @fierman.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Angelino.
Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social Freelancer re music & food for Washington City Paper; DMV DC concert list blog; guy recently retired from fed gov dayjob; dad, husband; fan of ilxor.com, Orioles, Terps, Wizards ; http://stevekiviat.blogspot.com/
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.
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com- S @sherridalphonse.bsky.social @sherridalphonse.bsky.social
Ken Tucker @kentucker.bsky.social Music critic NPR's Fresh Air. Book, TV, movie critic: EW, New York Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, New York Mag, etc
BEAUTY PILL @beautypill.bsky.social Myriad insinuations available at
beautypill.bandcamp.com
Whirly @girlwhowhirls.bsky.social 
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social Editorial Director, Features and Special Projects at WIRED.
Reyhan_harmanci@wired.com
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
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.
Willa @willa.bsky.social Slate, Decoder Ring, previously cared about television 
Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
she/her
Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
Choire @choire.bsky.social I work at cnn where I am the guy who rakes up the extra piles of news at night
Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social My debut novel about music and love THE SINGER SISTERS (Flatiron) is available at a bookstore near you. 🎶 📖
I edit at feminist quarterly Lilith Magazine. ✊
I am a tired NYC mom and probably need some coffee right now… ☕️
Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social https://www.harpercollins.com/products/one-more-than-one-jessica-winter?variant=45306334806050
Lucy Sante @luxante.bsky.social writer, artist, enigma
Ted Scheinman @scheinman.bsky.social senior editor, smithsonian mag
preorder JOLT now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jolt/Ted-Scheinman/9781668075593 | https://tedscheinman.com/
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social Author of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY. NYT-bestselling ghostwriter and screenwriter. WaPo, Atlantic, Eater. professor of Creative Writing at GWU. Swamp Dad. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-death-and-life-of-august-sweeney-samuel-ashworth/216
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
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'.”
The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social Writer/journalist/editor/filmmaker. @NYTimes, @Rollingstone, @texasmonthly, @texashighways etc. Everything interests me. Venmo @Joe-Gross-65. Big tsundoku.
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
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Steve Kandell @stevekandell.bsky.social eh?
cganz @mehpatrol.bsky.social A pal and a confidant 
Simon Vozick-Levinson @simonwilliam.bsky.social deputy music editor at rolling stone // just my own opinions over here
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.)
Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social A freelance writer and dog lover with too many records
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/pat-padua/movies
Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him
Conor Shaw @fixcircle.bsky.social Conor Shaw. Born and raised in DC. Husband, father, cyclist, urbanist, and recovering attorney. Former Eckington Civic Assn. president; now fighting for all of Ward 5.
Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social Climate journalist at Bloomberg and chronicler of weird suburbs. Opinions mine and not my bosses’ 
Kim Bender @kimpbender.bsky.social DC not Washington | reviving old things
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social I am writing a book that explains why Washington DC is the way it is: leafy, monumental, and segregated. I am also a licensed architect.
https://www.thebirthofacapital.info
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social Writer. "BACKBEATS: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers" is one of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2025.
Also: "Homeplace," about Patsy Cline's hometown. "A Song for Everyone," about Creedence.
johnlingan.com
Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
Sarah Marloff @sarahmarloff.bsky.social Editor at Washington City Paper * arts coverage * glitter enthusiast * one of my stories inspired a Late Night With Seth Meyers sketch * banner photo © Jana Birchum
Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social Member-supported community newspaper with reporting on Washington, D.C. culture, food, arts, sports, and politics. Support our work: https://buff.ly/HSgIgcc
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
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
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Inkoo Kang @inkookang.bsky.social Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social Vanity Fair correspondent. Author of Stealing the Show. Here, there and everywhere
Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social Rolling Stone/Senior Writer
It's impossible to see
Who I'm waiting for in my raincoat
--Julia Holter
James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Take me to Ontario
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