Luke Burns
Writing funny stuff/weird stuff. New Yorker, McSweeney's, NY Mag, etc. Translator of MASTERS OF THE NEFARIOUS, on shelves now. https://lukevburns.tumblr.com/writing (He/Him) Header image by Lucas Adams
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Short Humor Writing
Folks to follow if you're interested in short prose humor of the kind you find on McSweeney's and in The New Yorker
@pigeonpost.cafe
🐦✉️ Pigeon Post is your go-to online purveyor of birdy delight! Illustration and design by @alextomlinson.com 📚📍 Visit our Art & Bookstore in Scranton, Penna! pigeonpost.cafe
@alextomlinson.com
Bird art and @pigeonpost.cafe 🔡🐦 Personal blog: @alextomlinson.bsky.social https://links.alex.gd
@vgcartography.bsky.social
making maps and posters about video games maps: https://www.deviantart.com/vgcartography/gallery videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKb0fgAJTw12acNBJqYzrOg
@michigrim.bsky.social
I work on TV, Movies, Commercials, and games! Currently writing at Mischief.
@leslieylinen.bsky.social
Humor writer Advertising creative writer Keeps a respectful distance from the ocean
@caititalks.bsky.social
New chapook: Meditations (on Cheese) coming in 2025 🧀 Caiti talks t̶o̶o̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ disabled & queer poet. Author of YOKE (MyrtleHaus). EIC for HNDL Magazine. Words in Rattle, Little Old Lady Comedy, manywor(l)ds, etc (She / they) 📍St. Louis
@screendrafts.bsky.social
The podcast where experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate in the creation of screen-centric "Best Of" lists. Hosted by commissioners Clay Keller and Ryan Marker. Screendrafts@gmail.com. "Most impeccable taste in guests" - Entertainment Weekly
@jhoberman.bsky.social
Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct 📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War 🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
@roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
Vulture TV critic, SOUND OF METAL Criterion author, Peabody Awards juror, usually complaining about something.
@jasonflowers.bsky.social
desperately trying to get offline. // Funny Or Die, UCB, MrBeast, Kreativ, America Won't Shut Up
@thehighsign.bsky.social
Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
@losfamgeles.bsky.social
Interiors of spaces and people. My dog’s favorite.Trying not to embarrass my kids. Annoyingly sincere. Therapy stan. Have feelings will overshare. Angeleno and Carolinian. She/her
@taliaargondezzi.bsky.social
Writing professor and satire writer with humor in McSweeney’s, New Yorker, Slackjaw, Belladonna, Points in Case. My book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250287081?tag=macmillan-20 My website: taliaargondezzi.com
@wordress.bsky.social
Someone’s albatross, someone’s wild geese. Multi-class creative build. 📍Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country www.rosannastevens.com
@danewen.bsky.social
Writer, producer, straight-edge vegan from Athens, GA. "Clean Slate" on Prime. Paramount's DEAR SANTA.
@bobpowers.bsky.social
@dylyricus.com
bobserve.com Bob Dylan performance database (also: @bobserve.com) bobserve.substack.com newsletter dylyricus.com Bob Dylan lyric changes
@daveholmes.bsky.social
Editor-at-Large, Esquire. Here’s a funky introduction of how nice I am.
@sarahspy.com
Fiction writer, revising a coming-of-age novel; Tin House Winter '24, One Story Summer '23 alum 🙈 http://Storychord.com founding editor 🙉 eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts 🙊 sarahspyblog@gmail | https://sarahspy.com
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
NYS Assemblymember for District 36. Running for Mayor to freeze the rent, make buses fast + free, and deliver free universal childcare. Democratic Socialist. zohranfornyc.com
@howmanycigarettes.com
Counting cigarettes smoked in movies w screenshots for verification. Screenshots hourly from 10:20AM-7:20AM CST. No cigars, no vapes, no gods, no masters. If you give me $100 I will do this for any movie you want, or you can help take screenshots (DM me).
@absolutereality.blog
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. absolutereality.blog moviejawn.com contributor, Philly resident, call me Eileen.
@ashwinrodrigues.com
I've written. bylines at Defector, GQ, The New York Times, Wired, and other places. work + email available at ashwinrodrigues.com
@nycalamounited.bsky.social
Alamo Drafthouse cinema workers organizing with UAW region 9A Local 2179 in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island.
@mldavies.bsky.social
Victorian lady invalid, lying in bed surrounded by books. Long covid, ME, other ailments. Bylines in The Sick Times, Electric Lit, Jezebel, etc; cohost of Overinvested pod in absentia; picking away at a novel. she/her https://linktr.ee/morganleighdavies
@damnhellasskings.bsky.social
Managing editor and writer @TheHardTimes.net @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social
@laurenhakimi.bsky.social
Reporter and writer based in Brooklyn - I've written for The Forward, New York Jewish Week, Hell Gate, Gothamist, City Limits + more
@barlowadams.bsky.social
Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.
@scottrothmanwriter.bsky.social
Writer of kid's books, screenplays, and other things. Might know me from DRAFT DAY or Underwear Dragon books but probably not. KITTYBUNKPORT (Viking Books) and WARM AND FUZZY (Tundra) out now! www.scottrothmanwriter.com
@nitratepictureshow.bsky.social
Film is cool. Nitrate is hot. 🔥 Join us May 29–June 1, 2025 for the festival of film conservation at George Eastman Museum's Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY. Reserve your pass: eastman.org/nitrate-picture-show
@shaneisland.bsky.social
🗞️ Washington Post, formerly NYT 📝 Style Memo 📻 Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
@bizzycoy.bsky.social
www.bizzycoy.com + Author of PERSONAL SPACE: Short humor from The New Yorker, McSweeney's and beyond + New Yorker cartoon captionista + Freelance copywriter + Missing from Twitter since 2023
@bouletcorp.bsky.social
Artist, "Lourd est le Parpaing de la Réalité sur la Tartelette aux Fraises de nos Illusions"
@robertking.bsky.social
Co-showrunner of The Good Wife, Good Fight, Elsbeth, Evil, BrainDead. Producer of Your Honor and Happy Face.
@eliburnstein.bsky.social
Keynote weeper. Author Dictionary of Fine Distinctions. Words in McSweeney's & New Yorker. Rep @dblackagency. More at www.eliburnstein.com
@thedanopticon.bsky.social
@leonardpierce.bsky.social
Marxist, wife guy, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. Crime, baseball, communism. http://immortal-science.com
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com
@marissamaciel.bsky.social
Writer and Illustrator from your favorite websites (New Yorker Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s, Belladonna, rip The Toast & The Hairpin) Basically being rad and managing my rosacea
@angpal.bsky.social
trick after trick, i make the magic. writer • director • producer ✍️: @netflix @discoveryplus @history 🎬: @comedycentral @vice but wait there's more
@carriepinkard.bsky.social
Humor writer with words in The New Yorker, Points in Case, The Belladonna, and more ✍️.
@kmaiolatesi.bsky.social
Chicago! | Comedy in Reductress, McSweeney’s, The Hard Times, Weekly Humorist, etc | Social Media Coordinator for The Belladonna | She/Her katymaiolatesi.com