Kevin Ashton's Non-Fiction Starter Pack
Some of the very best narrative non-fiction writers there are, and me.
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@kevinashton.bsky.social
@historydavis.bsky.social
Author of FIERCE DESIRES: A NEW HISTORY OF SEX AND SEXUALITY IN AMERICA, publisher of the Carnal Knowledge newsletter, and co-host of This Is Probably a Really Weird Question, a podcast about sexual health and history.
@dsparis.bsky.social
Escritor de libros. Cullman Center Fellow 2022. Finalista Premio Herralde 2021. Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award 2020. English y español aquí.
@carriecourogen.bsky.social
writer for hire author, miss may does not exist: the life and work of elaine may, hollywood's hidden genius: https://bit.ly/missmaylanding editor @ bright wall/dark room prev: video @ conde nast (conde union 4ever)
@zoeschlanger.bsky.social
Climate reporter at The Atlantic. Into chemicals, climate, cool plants. THE LIGHT EATERS, a plant book, out from Harper Books. I'm zoeschlanger.99 on Signal
@amytan.bsky.social
Author of The Joy Luck Club, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and more. AMYTAN.net
@shustry.bsky.social
Staff writer for Time Magazine in New York, by way of Kyiv, Moscow and Berlin, and author of "The Showman," a wartime biography of Volodymyr Zelensky: bit.ly/TheShowmanBook
@katemedley.bsky.social
Photojournalist covering the American South: @nytimes @WaPo @wsj Author: THANK YOU PLEASE COME AGAIN Member: @nppa @womenphotograph Durham, NC www.katemedley.com
@amitav.bsky.social
Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
@jasondeleon.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Nikon F2 owner, rockero, bass player in The War Pigs, author of Soldiers and Kings and Land of Open Graves, catch me in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
@realhopejahren.bsky.social
I write threads about stuff I know and when I get to the part I don't know I stop. Feel free to ask me about my sources. I also write books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2111914/hope-jahren/
@zentronix.bsky.social
Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - September 2025 Edge of Reason Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
@davidgrann.bsky.social
Author of The Wager, Killers of The Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, The White Darkness, and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. Also a longtime New Yorker writer.
@jennitaur.bsky.social
@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).
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@calfraser.bsky.social
Writer, biographer (Prairie Fires), lover of trees, foxes, sheep, Grogu. Murderland forthcoming June, 2025.
@rtraister.bsky.social
Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack.
@janemayer.bsky.social
New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
@elizkolbert.bsky.social
I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction."
@isabelwilkerson.bsky.social
I write about human nature. Pulitzer Prize. National Humanities Medal. Author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@kevinashton.bsky.social
Called a thing the Internet of Things—Wrote How to Fly A Horse—http://amzn.to/1jTEwzf—He/Him—Literary Agent: Richard Pine/Inkwell—Speaking Agent: Mary Ellen/Leigh Bureau. Bi, queer, British—Austin, TX—New book 3/3/2026—I do not argue, debate, or engage.