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@rbreich.bsky.social
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social. Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com Preorder my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
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Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
@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.
@billsimmons.bsky.social
The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, The Ringer, Spotify, HBO’s Music Box, The Book of Basketball. Formerly: Grantland, 30 for 30, ESPN.
@letterboxd.social
🚂📚👀 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com 🇧🇷: @pt.letterboxd.social
@lrb.co.uk
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of politics, literature, history and ideas, published every fortnight. Read: https://lrb.co.uk Subscribe: https://mylrb.co.uk/QUEXT0225B
@darkhorse.com
Dark Horse Comics. Publisher: creator-owned and licensed comics, art books, collectibles, and more.
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone
@kristenmiller.bsky.social
Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY. linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
@takahemagazine.bsky.social
Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
@dark-shark.bsky.social
Brian Eno news, updates + related articles from the archives of More Dark Than Shark https://www.moredarkthanshark.org
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Kitchen table conversations with poets. Hosted by Han VanderHart. www.OfPoetryPodcast.com
@publicaddress.bsky.social
Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
@bookriotpod.bsky.social
A show about what's happening in the world of books and reading, hosted by Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. BookRiot.com Join us on Patreon for premium content: patreon.com/bookriotpodcast
@tashmahal.bsky.social
My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men :: Te Whakatōhea, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi :: Mai i te awa ki te moana 🇵🇸 Free Palestine
@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social
Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨Back in 2026✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨ https://vervepoetryfestival.com
@paulapenfold.bsky.social
I try to figure things out and communicate them | Aotearoa New Zealand
@kirstyjohnston.bsky.social
Journalist. https://www.instagram.com/kirstyjohnston_nz?igsh=bWU4a2pqemthYm5q
@pacificraft.bsky.social
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet in the UK. Toitū Te Tiriti!
@nikkihessell.bsky.social
Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀 Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
@sarahceross.bsky.social
Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
@rachaelking70.bsky.social
Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out now in Aus, NZ & the UK, coming to the US Oct 2025. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out 9 March NZ & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
@clairemabey.bsky.social
Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
@pipadam.bsky.social
@harrietprebble.bsky.social
Creative Content Strategist @ PikPok Games. Actor @ Gail Cowan Management & VO/MOCAP/PCAP at BigMouth Voices. Poet & writer at various. Aotearoa New Zealand 💗🌵 https://linktr.ee/harrietprebble
@carenwilton.bsky.social
Editor, writer, oral historian. Pākehā living in Wairarapa, Aotearoa. She/her. Old lefty bisexual feminist. Cats, gardens, art, books, knitting, human rights. Kia kaha te reo Māori, toitū te Tiriti. Covid isn't over.
@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social
Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
@beckettletters.bsky.social
We collect/consult/transcribe all extant letters by Beckett; see our interactive index (chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu), and 4 volume selected edition.
@eloquentsonia.bsky.social
Writer, ghost writer, & editor who also does PR & comms. Confirmed do-gooder. Ao NZ Secret Santa Elf. Shopping Ninja. Tāmaki Makaurau.
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
@erikkennedy.com
Poet behind beloved classics like 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022, @thwupbooks.bsky.social). 'Sick Power Trip', July 2025. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids. 📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch http://www.erikkennedy.com
@catherinechidgey.bsky.social
Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
@cjrauthor.bsky.social
Author of Flora Valley, Miss Lovelock and Imperfect Lives series romcoms (catherinejrobertson.com) she/her, trans rights, vote Green, owner of cats, dogs and chickens. Banner pic is Bernie judging you
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
Looking for joy Writer: www.tinamakereti.com Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
@modernletters.bsky.social
The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
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@simonsweetman.bsky.social
Writer @ simonsweetman.substack.com “The Richard Poems” (Cuba Press) out now, one of the pieces is in BEST NZ POEMS 2024, WHAT?!!?