Starter Pack of the Relatively More Newly Arrived
A bunch of people I like who weren't here the last time I made a starter pack. Or maybe I just missed them, who knows.
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@bcdreyer.social
@kianrazi.bsky.social
Iranian-American Writer, Memoir Aficionado, Dream Chronicler, Shadow Integrator, Candidate for Intelligent Life on Earth
@rachelbayjones.bsky.social
@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
Honorary Ziegfeld Girl Honorary IATSE Local 1 Jersey girl banner 📸Christopher Calkins
@rebeccacaine.bsky.social
Silver haired Canadian/British operatic soprano, musical theatre actor, animal lover. Rep- Mildred Yuan. www.rebeccacaine.com
@testonewrites.bsky.social
You know the drill. I read about dead people, teach about Judaism, and write about magic. Less argumentative in 2025 but no promises. Repped by @HandspunLit. Very gay, very Jew.
@dlchamplin.bsky.social
Actress, wife & proud mom to a T1D Warrior. All Cameo proceeds go to Breakthrough T1D (www.cameo.com/dlchamplin) #CrazyExGirlfriend #FeelTheBeat #ThePerfectCouple #T1D
@mordkhetzvi.bsky.social
the other day your bubbe was kibitzing about some black guy who sings in yiddish. it's still me. he/him - half of yiddish songwriting duo Tsvey Brider - Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow 2023-25 - afrojudeopessoptimist anthonyrussellbass.com
@neuvel.net
Author of THE THEMIS FILES, THE TEST. TAKE THEM TO THE STARS, NO KINDNESS TOO SOON. www.neuvel.net
@garybainbridge.bsky.social
Owner-operator of Liverpool's premier bijou editorial services provider, Bus Stop. Occasional bus traveller. Used to be a small deal. Writes plays, it turns out.
@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
@marksarvas.bsky.social
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. “ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill. Ex-blogger. NBCC & PEN America. Scold-proof. He/Him/His www.marksarvas.com
@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought. IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture. Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
@decentfilms.bsky.social
Film critic, Catholic deacon, theology teacher, father of 7. Not in that order. NYFCC member. Please follow/subscribe at greydanus.substack.com! Also at decentfilms.com
@marcdavenant.bsky.social
Photographer, writer, two time winner of the Portrait of Britain. My book ‘Outsiders’ documenting homelessness is available from Bluecoat Press. My website is https://marcdavenant.com
@sadknob.bsky.social
writer. television director. earned a few shiny things. scotland is home. i own an old pub in ireland. working on a project in chicago. science. history. athiest. he/him/his. ⓘ sometimes the only answer is a giant cartoon hammer.
@mjpcuervo.bsky.social
Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery. 👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com/portfolio-page 📖 helleborezine.com
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@elliottholt.bsky.social
Wrote a novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. Working on another. Freelance editor (formerly at The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, One Story). My name has two l's and two t's. Native Washingtonian, currently in New Haven (and often New York). elliottholt.com
@amahnke.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Hall of Fame podcaster. Creator of Lore (podcast + TV + book series) and Cabinet of Curiosities (podcast + book). Amateur photographer. Swiftie. AaronMahnke.com/bio
@mjmimages.bsky.social
A Breton boy eating sauerkraut? Impossible. [contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion] instagram: mjmimages
@danchaon.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025 Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
@calebcrain.bsky.social
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
@goldietaylor.bsky.social
COMING SOON. https://substack.com/@goldietaylor?r=184tc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
@jonathanhoefler.bsky.social
Man of letters. 🔤 Hoefler&Co Founder & Director Emeritus 🎬 Netflix “Abstract,” S02 E06 jonathanhoefler.com
@levostregc.bsky.social
Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
@phelpsiesarah.bsky.social
Writer. The Christie Quintet that got on some people’s tits. Dublin Murders. A Very British Scandal. Coming soon: The Sixth Commandment.
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@esmewang.com
📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise 🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller 🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com 🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her 🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
@questingvole.bsky.social
[indistinct chatter] @spectator lit ed. Author of The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author of Becoming Earth (Random House, 2024), being translated into 10+ languages ✵ Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Gardener, baker, naturalist ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
@jasondiamond.bsky.social
“Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out fall of 2025 on Flatiron.
@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/
@isaacbutler.bsky.social
Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
The other one. Poet & NYT bestselling author. Next 📚: DEAR WRITER (April 2025), THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT (Sept 2025), A SUIT OR A SUITCASE (March 2026).
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH is OUT NOW. UK pb Karla’s Choice coming May 22nd. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
@colindickey.com
Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. He/him.
@preetbharara.bsky.social
Patriotic American. Former US Attorney, SDNY. Banned by Putin. Fired by Trump.
@mayascade.bsky.social
creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com 💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + once the scholar in residence at the library of congress. always a film curator + writer + curious about the world. based in los angeles.
@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 • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com