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@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS, Trump, LGBTQ, criminal justice, and other legal news. / Email: lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Buckeye. / He/him.
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, IRON MAN for Marvel. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@espiers.bsky.social
NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, NYU prof, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill. https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication 🍉
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Oh God, I should probably be doing one of my jobs right now.
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
@markharris.bsky.social
Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Journalism: New York, NYTimes Style Mag, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE & more. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professing @ Dartmouth. He/Him. New writing: https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/
@coreyatad.com
Freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
@kristenmiller.bsky.social
Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
@jesszimmerman.com
Brief elaboration of a tube. Submission wishlist: http://bit.ly/3Bd1Fbw Women and Other Monsters: http://bit.ly/3BgxyQo
@sarahweinman.com
Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Author, SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN. Next nonfiction book (November 2025): WITHOUT CONSENT http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
@kellylink.bsky.social
unserious moonlight www.kellylink.net Always happy to make book recommendations if you tell me two writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. If you'd like signed copies of my books, you can find them at www.bookmoonbooks.com.
@kristenarnett.bsky.social
writer, librarian, huuuuge lesbian. dad. floridian. New York Times Bestselling author. Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (plus others) who often talks books on the Today Show. Next up? American Dionysus. 🍎 I walk a lot.
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
@chantalalive.bsky.social
Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the 2022 debut novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS. She/her https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/
@ambersparks.bsky.social
Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE in October; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
@dansolomon.com
senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). i’m really a very complicated kinda guy. he/him
@sannewman.bsky.social
Writer (Julia, The Heavens, The Men, How Not to Write a Novel, etc.) she/they
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@jamiattenberg.bsky.social
Living in NOLA with a small pup. Author of 10 books. The latest: 1000 WORDS and A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. Come write with me: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com
@ashleyesqueda.com
President #RowdySkeleton 💀 Author #ArtofPsychonauts2 📖 Host 🎙️ Bisexual Icon 🏳️🌈 Host/Expert Booking: george@intelligentartists.com Media Coaching: ashley@rowdyskeleton.com
@hooks.bsky.social
Journalist. Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse. christopherdhooks@gmail.com
@lauralippman.bsky.social
Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress? I am too a Merry Sunshine.
@thelincoln.bsky.social
Author and professor type person. SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24 Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
@madverse.bsky.social
This profile is toast. Follow me here: micropoetry.bsky.social MadVerse.com poem poet poetry book Dada Surrealism experimental Beat haiku nature wildlife animals Boulder Denver Colorado kindness Christus Super Omnia
@summerbrennan.bsky.social
Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time. Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
@michelledean.bsky.social
I wrote for websites & I wrote for magazines & I wrote a book called SHARP & I wrote a TV show called THE ACT & now I hope to find some meaning in life again (but am unfortunately mired in Hollywood) 🇨🇦
@lkrozen.bsky.social
Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
@lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
Debut novel THE SLIP coming from Simon & Schuster on 6/3/25.