Ellena Basada
Thinking about books, movies, and my life.
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editing prose @fonografeditions.bsky.social
Starter Packs
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Culture Writing Starter Pack
A curated list of some of my favorite culture writers on this app. I find their work full of vitality, never prosaic or boring. Follow and support; stay inspired.
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social
Always writing 📝📝📝📝📝 | Author of Film Elegy (PRROBLEM Press, 2024) | http://instagram.com/laura_n_paul/ | laurapaulwriter.com | https://prroblem.press/film-elegy
@cinemiasma.bsky.social
film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
@ellafoxmartens.bsky.social
I help make books at Simon & Schuster UK. Writing in The Atlantic, TLS, Baffler, Drift, etc.
@apockros.bsky.social
engagement & editing at The Nation and Cleveland Review of Books; criticism, essays, and contact info: alanapockros.com
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@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.
@dril.bsky.social
Never Bullshit I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate . https://www.patreon.com/dril https://www.instagram.com/dril_real https://linktr.ee/drilreal
@sashafrerejones.bsky.social
n.sashafrerejones.com sashafrerejones + any Proton suffix
@emotrophywife.bsky.social
Simply excited to have thoughts. Writing in The Cut, Vogue, Bookforum, Pitchfork, Frieze, and elsewhere. Debut novel forthcoming from Saga Press. gracebyron.substack.com
@saintsoftness.bsky.social
essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ next book in 2028 from Seven Stories Press avmarraccini.com
@johannafateman.bsky.social
co-chief art critic at CULTURED Magazine, musician at LE TIGRE https://buttondown.com/johannafateman
@ntok.bsky.social
Publisher at New York Review of Architecture Teacher at School of Visual Arts and Kean University Writer all over the place @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
@michaelbarron.bsky.social
former editor at New Directions & Melville House | current board member at And Other Stories | writer of fiction and non. michaelbarron.co
@bwdr.bsky.social
A different lens on film. essays: brightwalldarkroom.com pod: @bwdrpod.bsky.social
@sophiecharara.bsky.social
Freelance Journalist/Editor formerly WIRED // she/her // sophiecharara at gmail dot com // Mancunian in London
@sayanniething.bsky.social
culture writer, editor @ LARB, mother in the DC suburbs // here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
@taolin2.bsky.social
Author of Leave Society, Trip, Taipei, and other books. Editor of Muumuu House. https://taolin.substack.com
@mmschwartz.bsky.social
Editor at The Dial (@thedialmag.bsky.social), writer there and elsewhere
@benmauk.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Cleveland/Berlin. http://www.ben-mauk.com http://benmauk.substack.com
@andrew-durbin.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief, frieze. Book about Peter Hujar and Paul Thek forthcoming from FSG and Granta in 2026. More writing here: andrew-durbin.com. London/New York.
@rhiansasseen.bsky.social
Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
@dustinillingworth.bsky.social
I write about fiction // New York Review of Books, New York Times, New Yorker, etc.
@filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy
Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. [bridged from https://filmcomment.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/filmcomment.com ]
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
Reviews architecture, in New York. nyra.nyc
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
@thedialmag.bsky.social
The world’s little magazine: www.thedial.world Sign up for our free, weekly newsletter: https://world.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fa0db972b23592ba13703c3a8&id=bee50569eb
@jewishcurrents.bsky.social
Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left. Subscribe today! jewishcurrents.org/subscribe
@thefence.bsky.social
Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
@currentaffairs.bsky.social
A delightful print magazine of politics and culture. Like the New Yorker, but readable. Making life joyful again. https://linkin.bio/currentaffairsmag
@bostonreview.bsky.social
A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. Independent and nonprofit since 1975. SUBSCRIBE: bostonreview.net/memberships DONATE: bostonreview.net/donations
@helleborezine.bsky.social
Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.bsky.social. 🌍 Now shipping worldwide from www.helleborezine.com
@vqr.bsky.social
An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org Weekly email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hiepvn Weekly poetry newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ilfAh1
@nysfocus.bsky.social
New York Focus is a nonprofit newsroom investigating power in the Empire State. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://nysfocus.com/newsletter
@asterismbooks.bsky.social
Trade distributor and online bookstore representing more than 160 independent literary publishers from around the world!
@futuretensebooks.bsky.social
30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia). Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
@fonografeditions.bsky.social
Pushing the boundaries of sound, text, and genre... Publishing poetry, prose... Literary record label... Based in Portland, Oregon
@highcountrynews.org
Independent journalism dedicated to shining a light on all the complexities of the Western U.S since 1970. https://bit.ly/HCNLinks
@wwborders.bsky.social
The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
@zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
Independent literary journal, made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 128 is now available. Subscribe here: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
@dorothyproject.bsky.social
St. Louis-based press distributed by New York Review Books. Fiction & near fiction. Two books every Fall. Renee Gladman. Leonora Carrington. Cristina Rivera Garza. Nathalie Léger. Amina Cain. Giada Scodellaro. Pip Adam. Kate Briggs. Etc. dorothyproject.com
@deepvellum.bsky.social
Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org