Caleb Crain
Into #birding, #CrossFit, and sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow"
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com and https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-c
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Writers and readers (except political)
An incomplete list of writers and readers who mostly don't post about politics (which I love reading about, but which is a different thing)
@mercoglianos.bsky.social
Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping
@ghoward1950.bsky.social
Retired book editor, terminal bookworm, soon to be first-time author with THE INSIDER: MALCOLM COWLEY AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. I like movies too.
@tj-stiles.bsky.social
American historian and biographer. Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America" Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
@amysater.bsky.social
Embryonic development, emergence of neural/glial lineages, astrocyte superpowers. working toward a new experimental model of Traumatic Brain Injury. Tikkun Olam requires Palestinian self-determination.
@skeuomorphpress.org
An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
@charlesfinch.bsky.social
Novelist and literary critic. Most recent books “What Just Happened” (Knopf) and “An Extravagant Death” (Minotaur) available in paperback.
@around.com
Author. Chaos, The Information, Time Travel. Other work can be found at https://around.com. On the open social web I'm gleick@mas.to. That's where my posts here usually originate, which is why they sometimes appear awkwardly broken on Bluesky.
@willcarless.bsky.social
@adamtooze.bsky.social
Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/ OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/ C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought. Economics, history, theory, politi
@elizabethgumport.bsky.social
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛ Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
@douglasirwin.bsky.social
Trade/economic history @Dartmouth College @Peterson Institute for International Economics Website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dirwin/
@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social
Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/
@l-toczylowski.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer, co-founder & President/CEO of @immdef.bsky.social, mom fighting for a better world for my kids. Based in beautiful Los Angeles. #Resist #DueProcess4all #SaveAsylum #TeamImmDef #WelcomeWithDignity
@jtlg.bsky.social
I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
@michaelandrephoto.bsky.social
Curious traveler of life and this planet. I carry a camera and capture how I see things. michaelandrephoto.com 🇦🇹🇺🇸
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social
New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing, The Snakehead. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of a new 9-part FX series based on Say Nothing, available now on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
@simontorracinta.bsky.social
lecturer at Harvard in History of Science / @haw-uaw.bsky.social / contributing editor @bostonreview.bsky.social / history of human sciences / STS / political economy
@emdillon.bsky.social
Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2026). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic. Monoculture, autoimmune disease, poetry.
@dushkopetrovich.bsky.social
Painting for PNTG, writing for n+1, editing for Paper Monument, teaching for SAIC VCS.
@greggk.bsky.social
Chow owner, desert dweller, sun worshipper, longtime journalist, Palm Springs resident. Formative influences: Waugh, Proust, Tom Wolfe, Sondheim, Bertolucci, Hitchcock, Altman.
@ericweinberger.bsky.social
Writing, etc. No guru, no method, once teacher. Cambridge, Mass. to The Hague, the Alps, and back to Cambridge ericweinberger.substack.com
@ericklinenberg.bsky.social
Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
@bensoskis.bsky.social
History of philanthropy and civil society; Philly sports; Irish trad music. Views my own.
@kmascara.bsky.social
Editor, NY Times Culture desk, NewsGuild steward, queer Nebraskan 🌈
@bhgreeley.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton. Working on early-modern Atlantic currencies. Writing a trade-press history of the dollar and a dissertation about the guinea. I used to be a journalist. I used to be a lot of things.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
@joshuahersh.bsky.social
Editor at Columbia Journalism Review. Recently: Vice News Senior Producer and Correspondent. www.joshuahersh.com
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
@europaeditions.bsky.social
We are an independent publisher of literary fiction, high-end mystery and noir, and narrative non-fiction from around the world. europaeditions.com
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck "One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocket
@benjaminnugent.bsky.social
Author of Fraternity: Stories; Director, Mountainview Low-Residency MFA
@jameader.bsky.social
Part of the publishing team at @ireadvintage and Everyman's Library. Grady’s dad.
@filipecampante.bsky.social
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (SAIS & Carey Business School), Johns Hopkins University. Political economy, Brazil, and a little bit of futebol.
@lancerichardson.bsky.social
Writer. Australian. TRUE NATURE, my biography of Peter Matthiessen, out October 2025 from Pantheon Books. Faculty in the Bennington MFA in Writing. He/him. www.lancenrichardson.com
@ryansartor.bsky.social
writer // writers’ assistant on duncanville // host of the difficult to name reading series // new york knicks fan // ryansartor.com
@desdelboy.bsky.social
basic (L) eu 43. “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” Jean-Michel Basquiat. Proud @memorialdevice.bsky.social Alternative National Treasure. #MDANT