Becca Worby @beccaworby.bsky.social I'm here, I guess! Writer, sometimes. Editorial director of Reasons to be Cheerful, an online magazine founded by David Byrne. She/her.
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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Sebastian Stockman @substockman.bsky.social BLM. Teaching Prof., Northeastern. Reviewer @nytbooks @washpost @BostonGlobe, elsewhere. he/him
Newsletter at https://sebastianstockman.substack.com/
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
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
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com Brief elaboration of a tube.
Matthew Sitman @mattsitman.bsky.social writer, co-host of Know Your Enemy
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
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
Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social I wrote for websites & I wrote for magazines & I wrote a book called SHARP & I wrote a TV show called THE ACT & now I hope to find some meaning in life again (but am unfortunately mired in Hollywood) 🇨🇦
David Marcus @davidmarcus.bsky.social Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social Technically Eisner-winning, definitely GLAAD Award-nominated comic book writer, journalist, and Insufferable Newsletter Man.
All of DEAD TEENAGERS out now from Oni. Paperback is out October 6.
CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 is out now. Issue #4 hits 10/14.
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
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.)
Adam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Laurie Muchnick @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social Fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews. Welsh by marriage. 🏴✡️📚
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly
Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social Writer?
Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians-should-be-leftists-phil-christman/22293923?ean=9780802884053&next=t; https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914
A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
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Michele Filgate @readandbreathe.bsky.social Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025).
www.michelefilgate.com
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/
Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
Sonya Huber @sonyahuber.bsky.social Writer & Professor. Voice First, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, Love & Industry, etc. Memoir, essays, chronic pain, labor, disability activism, Midwestern tater tot. A few beads, a loud laugh. www.sonyahuber.com she/her/they/them
Hamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social Expat Tennesseean in NYC. Bylines: New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah Daily, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, Chapter 16, On The Seawall, Harvard Review. 
Dustin Illingworth @dustinillingworth.bsky.social I write about fiction // New York Review of Books, New York Times, New Yorker, etc. 
Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her
You'll find me on my ebike.
Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com
Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com
Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social Writer and coproprietor of thestopgap.net a blog
Clea Simon @cleasimon.bsky.social Writer, cat lover, human. She/her. Firm believer in the strong female character (in fiction, too!). Author of many books, most recently "slow-burn thriller" THE BUTTERFLY TRAP. More at http://www.CleaSimon.com 
Heather Scott Partington @hspartington.bsky.social Book critic & teacher. Board member and fiction chair @bookcritics.bsky.social.
📍Elk Grove, CA.
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org
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/
Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
Alexander Pyles @pylesofbooks.bsky.social What are we doing now?
http://linktr.ee/alexanderpyles
Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social Freelance critic/essayist from Aus with bylines at Guardian, Drift, Baffler, European Review of Books, Meanjin, etc. Ex-Berliner Books editor, now at The Auflauf
https://sites.google.com/view/ajbwells
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
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.”
May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social Writer, critic, National Book Critics Circle board member
She/Her
Formerly: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlas & Co, Penguin Random House Digital, Times-Picayune, Guernica, Brooklyn Book Festival
Chapel Hill, NC
Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
nature @nature122.bsky.social nature is life
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social board member, raised in the canebrake by an old mama lion. mschaubtx@gmail.com.
Tina Jordan @tinajordan.bsky.social Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.
Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️
My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
rosieschaap.net
Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social Wrote a novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. Working on another. Freelance editor (formerly at The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, One Story) & college essay coach. My name has two l's and two t's.
elliottholt.com
Scott Cheshire @scheshire.bsky.social Books, and pets.
www.scottcheshire.com
claire @clairecomstockgay.bsky.social horoscopes at the cut, other stuff too
Anna Dobben @annadobben.bsky.social 
Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
Sarah Russo @sarahrusso.bsky.social Founder of @pageonem.bsky.social, literary publicity and marketing for authors and experts. www.page1m.com
Previously, global head of audience engagement at Oxford University Press. Brooklyn, NY
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Meakin Armstrong @meakin.bsky.social Fiction | Ghostwriter | Guernica fiction ed 2006-2022 | NYPL Young Lions Readers’ Committee | Work/words: Lit Hub, New Yorker, Forbes, Business Insider 📍Portland, OR
Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social Literary Publicist / Cheerleader
Proud co-founder Broadside PR
Native Californian in New York
Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social Another dude with fancy notions.
Poet, essayist, lit critic, arts educator.
📚: WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021).
Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts.
Saint Paul MN. https://linktr.ee/michaelkleberdiggs
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.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Arianna Rebolini @ariannarebolini.bsky.social Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die is out now!!!!!
https://linktr.ee/ariannarebolini
National Book Foundation @nationalbook.bsky.social National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America. 
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social pyrrhic victor, enemy of fun
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
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