Pittsburgh Progress @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social Journalism built by workers, with our community, for Pittsburgh.
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Capitalisn't @capitalisnt.bsky.social Luigi Zingales & Bethany McLean discuss ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. https://www.capitalisnt.com/ 
Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Status @status.news A nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley with hard-hitting reporting and uncompromising analysis.
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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.)
Scott Simon @nprscottsimon.bsky.social I host a Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR, write books, plays, do some other reporting. Nightly Substack RT YouTube on writing, and other interests. Husband, father and Chicago Cubs fan. Book in May, 2026: ULYSSES S. CAT AND OTHER ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN.
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/
Harrison Smith @harrisondsmith.bsky.social I edit and write obituaries for @washingtonpost.com. More interested in life than death. Get in touch at harrison.smith@washpost.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. Author of the forthcoming HOW RUSSIA WON and the OUR LAND newsletter. Go to davidcorn.com. On Signal: DavidCorn.99
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jena Friedman @jenafriedman.bsky.social Comedian, writer, don’t quote me 🤡
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social Parent-founded. Parent-led. Defending the right to read & supporting the fight against book bans in our public schools & communities.
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Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
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Jennifer Erin Valent @jenniferevalent.bsky.social Award-winning author. Pittsburgh sports fan. Classic film buff. Celebrating God's creation through words and images. Galatians 2:20.
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Law @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com D.C.-based freelance technology journalist covering, and often vexed by, computers, gadgets, and other things that beep. May or may not be notable. He/him. Read: PCMag, Fast Company, etc. Write: rob@robpegoraro.com
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social Senior Executive at NBCUniversal (Ret) • Hollywood’s Ultimate Insider • Cultural Commentator
U.S. Senator Gary Peters @peters.senate.gov U.S. Senator proudly representing the State of Michigan. 🏍️
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social Reader/Writer/Teacher. Author of QUIET AMERICANS: STORIES & BIRTHRIGHT: POEMS. Focusing (mostly) on matters bookish and/or #Jewish. linktr.ee/erikadreifus
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
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Micah Erfan @micaherfan.com Political Commentator & Law Student. Co-Founder @TheSirenHQ. Advisor @AdamMocklerr. 🇺🇸🏗️
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social Métis (he/him) weareserfs.com
I explain the internet. Indigenous/LGBTQ+ activism and freedom for all are my jam.
Go watch youtube.com/@theserftimes and patreon.com/theserfs
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com; Newsletter: electricnotes.news
Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social The union of the The Washington Post.
Pavel Yakovlevich @pavellawrence.bsky.social Interests: Mali, cognitive dissonance, Nagorny Karabakh, 1619, piñatas, that sad montage in Up, Владислав Юрьевич Сурков, Shelburne Farms, truthiness, music as a weapon, Just Transition, Terry Gross, Open Space Technology, Molly
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" blog
Art Winslow @artwinslow.bsky.social Owner of literary tote bags, also former magazine editor (The Nation), prior jurist/panelist at Pulitzer Prizes, NEA, NBCC, MacDowell. Have written for many venues, general interests skew to literary journalism and cultural reporting of almost any stripe.
meh @mharvey816.bsky.social she/her
NW MO - > NOVA
Bleeding heart liberal. Asthmatic. Bernina sewist. Recovering perfume and handbag addict. Married to the best guy I know. Deactivated my Twitter on 1/21/25.
#KCRoyals #Nats #TCMParty #QuiltSky #GenXElder
Ann Packer @annpacker.bsky.social Fiction writer, TV/screenwriting combatant, baker, reluctant Medicare policy holder
Craig Morgan Teicher @cteicher.bsky.social Poet, writer-about-books, Director of Special Projects @ Bennington Writing Seminars, father, dog lover, etc.
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Emma Straub @emmastraub.bsky.social Novelist and bookseller. 
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: I review Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/arts/emily-st-john-mandel-exit-party/
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
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social Novelist and literary critic. Most recent books “What Just Happened” (Knopf) and “An Extravagant Death” (Minotaur) available in paperback.
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social Columnist, novelist, j-prof.
NYT bestselling novel, The Daughters of Erietown. Next novel: Because You Asked. On Substack at Hopefully Yours. I’m with Sherrod.
https://connieschultz.substack.com/
Worst of the New York Times @nytimes.wtf Not affiliated with the New York Times, just a collection of missteps and facepalms. email submissions to nytimeswtf@gmail.com
The Nation's Books & the Arts @booksandthearts.bsky.social Books, music, ideas, film, and criticism from The Nation's "back of the book" https://www.thenation.com/books-and-the-arts/
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.
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Susan Scarf Merrell @susanmerrell.bsky.social Author most recently of SHIRLEY: A NOVEL. Assoc. Professor @Lichtenstein Center @StonybrookUniversity. Co-director, BookEnds novel revision fellowship. She/Her. Daily swimmer. Alarmingly fast reader.
Benjamin Percy @benjaminpercy.bsky.social Writer of novels (Ninth Metal, Red Moon), comics (Punisher, Deadpool), essays (Thrill Me), audio dramas (Exoplanet, Wolverine: The Long Night), film (13th Night, Summering), TV (Urban Cowboy), and dad jokes (Knock, knock…). www.benjaminpercy.com
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
Laura Strachan @strachanlit.bsky.social Literary Agent. Lover of books, art, music and theatre.
(she/her)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
--Walt Whitman
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social Raw Dog Screaming Press publishes “fiction that foams at the mouth” specializing in dark and unclassifiable fiction and poetry.
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
Follow us: https://profile.google.com/@newrepublic
Book Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social A bite-sized, newsletter-based book review, sending subscribers well-crafted reviews by distinguished & engaging writers direct to their inboxes. linktr.ee/bookpostusa
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social 7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
Ari Cohn @aricohn.com First Amendment & defamation lawyer.
Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom.org (x2)
Illini/music junkie/oofnik.
“A snarky gay lawyer Jessica Fletcher.”
Posts are my own.
https://linktr.ee/aricohn
The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
thepointmag.com 
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Sarah @reelmccoypins.com Virgin who CAN drive. Non-binary, gay, asexual. They/Them. 31. ♠️ 🏳️🌈 Buy my enamel pins & stickers at the link below!
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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social LibraryThing founder. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic. I tweet books, libraries, technology, culture.
LibraryThing: @librarything.com
Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom @oif.bsky.social The official account for the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. Fighting book bans and censorship in libraries since 1967. ala.org/bbooks
Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social Book critic. Lover of translated lit & translators. Cinephile. Disillusioned vagabond.
“For I, you see, dwelling upon the rim of life, see everyone in the arena as acting blindly.”
Poisoned Pen @poisonedpen.bsky.social Your Local Bookstore No Matter Where You Live.
www.poisonedpen.com
Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com