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
benjamindreyer.com
Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social 37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler.
RN@dicknixon.com
Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social Ghost writer. Corporeal reader. Semi-solid watcher of stuff.
Sarah @thebasementtan.bsky.social Film and fashion nut. Maker of crossword puzzles, lover of tap numbers, picker of weeds.
Christopher Burlinson @cmburlinson.bsky.social A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
FQuin🏳️🌈 @fquin.bsky.social Recently retired federal employee, living in CA wine country. 
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
Catherine @catch65.bsky.social 
Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Crude Marxist and bitter culchie
Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social Former director of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre; opinionated cultural commentator; husband of fab novelist Kat Falls. Often posts pet pics to boost followers.
James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social Old-school note scribbler and ivory tickler • www.jbax.net
Tina Hoggatt @thoggatt.bsky.social Writing and illustrating stories for young readers. Fond of books, animals, nature, and baseball. Northwestie.
Hamline MFAC, #scbwi #C2C, #12x12
David Hawkes @davidhawkes.bsky.social Worked on advice sector policy, avid reader, keen cook, lover of music, cinema, history and Italy
Matt Keeley @matt-keeley.bsky.social Frequent reader and occasional reviewer
Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
Emma @emmylounib.bsky.social 
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
Pat McDermott @twinsetpat.bsky.social knitter, museum goer, jazz lover, gardener, pesto maker
Laura S. 🇨🇦 @lauralaz.bsky.social Copy editor, writer, collagist. Coast of Maine
Lily Mars @lilymarswrites.bsky.social Playwright/librettist/mystery writer. Crime plotter. Yacht rocker. Yarn looper. Snoot booper. she/her
Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social Writer | The Naming of the Birds (Jan. 2025) l The House on Vesper Sands | Lives in a very small way.
https://vspr.st
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social Editor at Merriam-Webster // Poems and essays in Orion, Antiphony, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, swamp pink, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // Vermont // MichaelMetivier.com
Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
Louis Kersten @louisvk.bsky.social Disturbingly domesticated former NYer living on the outskirts of the Chicago metro area.
Mildly allergic to jukebox musicals.
Your Merman may vary.
This isn't me being gay; it's science.
A.N. Hill @anhill.bsky.social Ass. Dean & Prof. Humanities, @ValenciaCollege/ Art History & Humanities from Ancient to Early Modern / Community College advocate/ #RPG and #OER in classrooms/ Mother of 4 dragons / Cats often, dogs always.
P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com Classic Hollywood enthusiast // #IdaLupinoDirecting // 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
See more of my writings on Ida Lupino and other classic Hollywood topics: https://pmbryant.com/x/letyourselfgo/
Robert Dimmick @rbdimmick.bsky.social "Well, here I am girls, move over."
Blocking crypto accounts and anyone with "financial advisor" in their profiles.
Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social Writer.
Gayer Than Thou 🏳️🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.social Gayer than the average bear. Always looking for innundo. Luckily, the papers are full of it. #TCMParty #IfIHadADime
Gregory Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social Shakespeare actor/dramaturg; audiobook narrator; 1/2 of Rannygazoo (mongers of tinpandemonium) and Wingback Productions (makers of parlor theater ™️); Premature Anti-Fascist; he/him
P2wy @p2wy.bsky.social My teenager says I’m “cottage-core.” Dallas via Chicago and Grand Rapids. Into vinyl, classic foreign film. Anti-fash, protect trans kids!
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.
Chuck @queermudge.bsky.social By profession, a teacher
By aspiration, a novelist
By nature, a curmudgeon
He/him 🏳️🌈
AI sucks
Alan Hait 🏳️🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social Enjoying life, friends, films, sunshine and orchids. #OldMovieWeirdo and #TCMParty enthusiast. Charter member, Henry Morgan Fan Club.
If you merely reskeet and post links or collect followers - don't follow me. You'll be blocked.
https://linktr.ee/alanhait
Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social KS>IA>NE>BC>UT>NC>MD>FL>SC Appalachian Southerner combined with Kansas pioneer stock. I value both literature and sports. Be sensible, be kind and don’t forget to give the dog treats. Don’t get me started about [INSERT LITERARY FIGURE HERE]
Chris Harris @christopherharris.bsky.social Former journo.
Italianista.
Extraordinary house sitter.
Lover of dogs. Durmer.
Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social Gen X Brit based in the USofA.
Avatar by @Taraocomics.bsky.social (thank you Tara!)
Banner is the target used by The Archers; I am nothing if not a product of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter at mariepphillips.substack.com
JaneLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social Film and theater lover. "On" Long Island. Cats, obviously. Fiona, particularly. Sorry about the politics. Grieving. I miss my mom. Lucky companion of the late TT. I miss my guy. She/her. https://letterboxd.com/NYJaneLane/ ┃ https://shorturl.at/Cd0kk
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social Music, theatre, movies, that sort of thing. I’ll try not to be intemperate. Really. 
Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social Frasier farceur, and co-perpetrator of several other TV shows. Lyricist, playwright. Novels: Blue Heaven, Putting On The Ritz, My Lucky Star. Awards available on request, or I'll just work them into our next conversation.
@jondmaas.bsky.social @jondmaas.bsky.social Graduated Summa cum laude from The Office Boy And Coffee Shop School Of The Dramatic Arts. I got through Mr. ෴ and I'm here.
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
https://onebrightbook.com/
@kmale.bsky.social @kmale.bsky.social Curmudgeon and failed flaneur.
Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social Chief writer of An Irish Diary, The Irish Times
Tim @sailert.bsky.social Acts on stage. Reads books. Watches things. Walks my dog. Rural Minnesota.
IG: @sailert
Newsletter: dazzledgratitude.substack.com
@brittyknows.bsky.social @brittyknows.bsky.social 
John Daly @johdal.bsky.social Books, film, art history, improvised music. 
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social Writer for hire | Baseball fan | Letterman-type | “One vulgar broad” | Protect trans kids | FUCK ICE | she/her
ajillblake.substack.com
https://ko-fi.com/ajillblake
Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social Film correspondent and general blowhard for The Irish Times. Bias so-called 'critic'. You're the tray of nice things I upset yesterday. https://www.irishtimes.com/author/donald-clarke/
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Literary Agency.
Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social Theatre Aficionado/Writer/Raconteur. Researcher for the 2022-2025 Tony Awards telecasts. Tea Enthusiast. Alleged short king. Soprano Connoisseur. Raised on TCM. He/Him.
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'.”
Alex aka Muscato @cafemuscato.bsky.social Retired diplomat, but not particularly retiring; working on aging disgracefully. I split my time between deserts: Palm Springs and Cairo. Always up for champagne, good music, or gossip about the Lunts. Parlor pink; lapsed Presbyterian. He/Him.