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Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social Middle Men (Simon & Schuster), Lodge 49 (AMC+), Tiger Van Books
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
katie cusumano @k-e-c.bsky.social writing, mostly, about culture and the outdoors. words in nyt mag, orion, longreads & beyond; assistant nonfiction editor for agni. based in portland, now. signal = kec.51. katherinecusumano.com
Lora Kelley @lorakelley.bsky.social writer!
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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M. L. Rio @mlrio.bsky.social Bestselling author of HOT WAX, GRAVEYARD SHIFT, IF WE WERE VILLAINS. Vinyl nerd, recovering academic, road tripper, dog lady. Pre-order HOT WAX here: https://linktr.ee/mlrio
Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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Sarah Manguso @sarahmanguso.bsky.social Writer: Liars, Questions Without Answers, Very Cold People, 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, The Two Kinds of Decay, Siste Viator, etc.
Toure @toure.bsky.social My Substack: Culture Fries By Toure... My Hiphop Show: Rap Latte on YouTube... My Podcast: Toure Show... TV host, 8x author, 2x father, 1x husband. MSNBC, BET, Rolling Stone, NYT.
Green Apple Books on the Park @booksonthepark.bsky.social A branch of the legendary Green Apple Books in San Francisco's Inner Sunset. Est. 2014. Events happen here!
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Leah Mensch @leahmensch.bsky.social Certified liability. Likely the world’s foremost Kate Braverman scholar, etc.
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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social Author: THIS ELEGANCE, TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Art Writer | He/Him
📍Chicago
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Green Apple Books @greenapplebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
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Diane Lefer @dianelefer.bsky.social 
Stephen Elliott @stephenelliott.bsky.social I wrote some books including The Adderall Diaries. Directed the movie About Cherry. Now I work in real estate which is less complicated.
Roger Hodge @hedtk.com Author of Texas Blood and The Mendacity of Hope. Editing at Drop Site. Former climate policy editor at The Washington Post. Former editor of The Intercept, Oxford American, and Harper's Magazine. Signal: hedtk.88
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.
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
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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
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social wrote Tom Sawyer and Raking Leaves
editing R&R: https://www.relegationbooks.com/journal/
https://southwestreview.com/volume-108-number-1/finder/
https://archwayeditions.us/three-poems-by-joseph-grantham/
Rob Brezsny @rob-brezsny.bsky.social Muse lover, spirit punk, play activist
Rachel Kolb @rachelrkolb.bsky.social Writer & educator, author of ARTICULATE: A Deaf Memoir of Voice (forthcoming with Ecco, Sept 2025)
christine sun kim🌪️ @christine.lol 
Amanda Gorman @amandagorman.bsky.social Poet, Activist and Model. Advocate for gender justice, racial equality, and the environment.
https://amandagormanbooks.com/
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Books, since 1984
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
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
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www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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Isle McElroy @islemcelroy.bsky.social Author of The Atmospherians and People Collide. 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social Pioneer Works builds community through the arts & sciences to create an open and curious world.
Daniel Alarcón @danielgalarcon.bsky.social Radio Ambulante Studios / The New Yorker / Columbia Journalism School
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Jenny Odell @jennitaur.bsky.social 
@jiatolentino.bsky.social @jiatolentino.bsky.social 
Ahmed Naji @ahmednaji.bsky.social Writer, Novelist, Documentary Filmmakers, Criminal, ex-journalist. More about his crimes:
http://linktr.ee/anaji
ahmednaji.net
Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social Writer - A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS (2024) - THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS (2017) - IMMEMORIAL (forthcoming February 2025) Other work in NY Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, Mother Jones, VQR & elsewhere
Oscar Villalon @ovillalon.bsky.social Editor, ZYZZYVA (zyzzyva.org); contributing editor, Lit Hub; publications: Freeman's, The Believer, VQR, Lit Hub, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and other places. San Francisco is my home.
Chris Almeida @chrisalmeida.bsky.social CFB editor at ESPN | writing elsewhere | chrisjalmeida.com
Joseph Bien-Kahn @josephbienkahn.com Senior Editor, Esses Magazine
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social Not checking this account all that often these days but you can find me here: https://fightweek.substack.com/
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Nick Hilden @nickhilden.bsky.social Culture, science & politics writer | Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, Scientific American, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera, Nautilus, Vanity Fair, etc | www.nickhilden.com
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Nathalie Léger, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Pip Adam, Laura Vazquez, Lana Lin, etc. dorothyproject.com
The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
Jennifer Kabat @jenkabat.bsky.social Nightshining + The Eighth Moon (Milkweed Eds 2024 + 2025). Upstater. Art writer. Essayist. Rural rabble-rouser. Socialist. Member Margaretville VFD.
ASJA.org @asjahq.bsky.social Through ASJA, independent journalists, authors, and content writers find the community, networking opportunities, and professional development they need to advance their careers and refine their skills.
Emily Dreyfuss @emilydreyfuss.bsky.social Culture editor at The San Francisco Standard. Writer. Painter. Gesticulator.
Lyle Lovett @lylelovett.bsky.social Howdy.
Cara Blue Adams @carablueadams.bsky.social YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Work in the New Yorker and Granta. Associate professor at Temple University. Brooklyn & Beacon via Vermont.
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
Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social Author of the novel BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN, selected as a best book of the year by the NYT, WaPo, and Kirkus.
psudbanthad.com
Casey Jarman @caseyjarman.bsky.social Why not I guess ok.
Anne K Yoder @annekyoder.bsky.social author of The Enhancers; part-time pill pusher; jack of all trades at Meekling Press
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
Adalena Kavanagh @mamiyaroid.bsky.social Writer, Photographer, Librarian, Red Panda Enthusiast
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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social Dallas, TX | Quarterly print mag and weekly content online | www.southwestreview.com
Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 📚 Hybrid lit mag & art zine
💌 New print issue every month
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📍 Minneapolis, MN
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, out now from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, NYT Mag, WaPo, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
All from Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my mostly weekly newsletter.
she/her. Los Angeles. Away from Bluesky 7/27/26-?
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@woolyknickers.bsky.social @woolyknickers.bsky.social nevermind
James Yeh @jamesyeh.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist, professor of writing. Words in the New York Times, Guardian, the Drift, McSweeney's Quarterly, the Believer, Dissent, and elsewhere. Formerly an editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, the Believer, and VICE
Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social Noemi Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher committed to publishing innovative writing. We have been a historically brown and queer press since our founding in 2002.
https://www.noemipress.org/etel-adnan-poetry-prize/
Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
Courtney Zoffness @czoffness.bsky.social Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell, Bread Loaf. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social Award-winning Los Angeles-based writer of video games, science articles, weird pop songs and books (in no particular order).
See also @blippo.plus & @teamyacht.com!
Website: https://clairelevans.com
Newsletter: https://clairelevans.substack.com/
George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
@bootsriley.bsky.social @bootsriley.bsky.social https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/f5n7qcr46iy09ukon4zqy/AH73DPHTxg_2KkQ0sv91zwk?rlkey=vtgiu6upbuipqdn53pptbylth&st=9pml38tu&dl=0
Nikky @nykida.net Just your normal person who enjoys a good read about normal person interests such as trains, Soviet Politburo politics, and Imperial Japanese Navy tactics.
Seattle native hanging out in Philadelphia. I do coding stuff for @mcsweeneys.net sometimes.
Evan Allgood @evoooooooooooo.bsky.social Writer for The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Millions, The Novelizers, Current Affairs, Points in Case, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
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Stephen Piccarella @spiccarella.bsky.social Writer etc.
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social author/journalist, covering mental health and trans stuff.
📝: Esquire, Eater, The Believer, The Cut, This American Life
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social CHANGEOVER, my book about Alcaraz & Sinner, is out now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Changeover/Giri-Nathan/9781668076248
giri[at]defector[dot]com
@damienjoyce @damienjoyce.bsky.social Well rounded sports, music fan & blogger. 🎧
Host of 'The Human Recommendation' radio show 📻 @flirtfm.ie
Writing ✍️ @thetonearm.com
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social Author, Professor of English at Portland State, bewildered radio guest.
Personal account.
www.pdx.edu/english/profile/paul-collins
Mychal Denzel Smith @mychaldenzelsmith.bsky.social Books: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching/Stakes is High/one in progress about Virginia. Smoking cigars, drinking coffee, playing chess. I dunno man, what even matters now?
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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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/
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social writer & PhD student in cincinnati / rep: UTA
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