Village Voice alum starter pack
Former writers, photographers, designers, editors, contributors, and employees of the Village Voice.
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@tromano.bsky.social
@hopereese.bsky.social
Debut 📚:THE WOMEN ARE NOT FINE (July 10) Interested? Pre-order today: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781840918403 Articles for NYT and other pubs. hopereese.com
@chuckeddytor.bsky.social
I write about stuff (e.g., books called Stairway to Hell, Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'Roll, Rock and Roll Always Forgets, and Terminated for Reasons of Taste.) Here's where I mostly write now: https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/author/edcchucky
@zdroberts.bsky.social
writer/photojournalist/loves movies Member: NPPA, NWU and NPC Writing: VisuNews.substack.com Portfolio: ZDRoberts.com Movie Talk: ECVPodcast.com Signal: @ZDRoberts.81
@hillaryrosner.bsky.social
Science journalist, editor, author, professor, mom, dog person. Book about wildlife connectivity forthcoming in 2025 from Patagonia Books. Definitively anti-kakistocracy.
@jiweinste.bsky.social
Writer, editor, sometime teacher. Union work. Fights for queer, Palestinian and all human rights. Stubborn verbs: shake, drink, chop, eat (was restaurant critic and “food writer” for ages). https://www.artsjournal.com/outthere/
@ljkummer.bsky.social
Bylines in NYTimes, WashPost, Village Voice, New Republic & Literary Hub. Wrote THE BLUE PERIOD, a novel https://amzn.com/dp/1542049970 and TAKERS MAD, an Audible drama http://adbl.co/3ttLvrr. Working on an opera.
@thecoopscoop.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, author, former USC journalism prof. Former translator for martyred Chilean President Salvador Allende.Poker player. Photographer. Find me here or sign up for free thecoopscoop.substack.com. Free. Contrarian.
@deanne5.bsky.social
Critically acclaimed writer. Books include Twentynine Palms (praised by Hunter S. Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer") and Blood Brothers (starred Kirkus, Newsweek excerpt, praised by Doug Brinkley, Thomas Powers).
@jgrossnas.bsky.social
Editor of Perfect Sound Forever, writer, music (over) enthusiast, horror fan, reissue producer- Delta 5, Kleenex, Essential Logic, Oh Ok, DNA
@grahamfuller.bsky.social
Film Editor at The Arts Desk. Editorial Associate at Cineaste.
@edhalter.bsky.social
Writer on film and other things, half of Light Industry, Brooklyn @lightindustry.bsky.social linktr.ee/edhalter
@simonreynolds.bsky.social
Writer, music and other things http://blissout.blogspot.com/
@jaypwilkins.bsky.social
News editor, music fan and maker, husband and father, native Midwesterner turned New Yorker.
@mateoy.bsky.social
Author of Seascape - Notes from a changing coast to be published by Calon Books in 2025. Founder of walking site, Tramping, and Executive Nature - biz writing & comms coaching. Also wrote Return to My Trees, Trust Inc. and lots more. matthewyeomans.com
@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
@davidswanson.bsky.social
New Yorker, Scotsman, editor, writer, map and archive nerd Politics, culture, and sandwiches at https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
@annamerlan.bsky.social
Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
@chelipj.bsky.social
✍️ Journalist 📗#LatinaAuthor ✊ Chicana 🇲🇽 🌞 Cali born & raised 🗽 NYC made 💘 now STL 🎒 @scaddotedu MFA program 💻 Courier Newsroom
@benjayingly.com
senior gfx editor @ Law360 proudly Law360 Union and NY Newsguild outlaw360.org forever | advocate for the Amtrak hot dog | g train american 🟢 | ✡️🚲🔴 ynwa lgm he/him
@jenniferkrasinski.bsky.social
Writer | Critic @4columns @Artforum @Bookforum @newyorkermag and elsewhere
@srubenfeld.bsky.social
senior reporter, financial crime and corruption, MLex. Talk for hours, I hardly know ya But I, I'm listening https://www.mlex.com/mlex/financial-crime
@siddharthamitter.bsky.social
@lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
Fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews. Welsh by marriage. 🏴✡️📚
@lauriestone.bsky.social
I hope to seduce you to read "Everything is Personal," named by Lithub one of the seven best literary publications on Substack. lauriestone.substack.com/subscribe
@annkpowers.bsky.social
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
@matoswk.bsky.social
Michaelangelo Matos Author, historian, critic, journalist St. Paul he/him The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020) I edit books - inquire within Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
@eweisbard.bsky.social
From Hunter High to WPRB, alt-weeklies, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Pop Conference, and professing. Top 40 Democracy. Songbooks. Next book up: Hound Dog
@manohladargis.bsky.social
Tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York.
@cmcgann.bsky.social
Photographer. Music, Nightlife, Drag, NYC, etc etc I shot the late 80’s, 90’s…and then some. 😎The Village Voice, NYTimes, Entertainment Weekly, Guitar World, TMBG, Spin, and many more. Represented by Getty Images, Morrison Hotel Gallery, Sonic Editions.
@bparks3000.bsky.social
Detroit ex-pat, playwright, distantly related to the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald
@mjtoma.bsky.social
Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
@anildash.com
that guy from the internet • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and xmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • see https://anildash.com
@jimfarbermusic.bsky.social
I've been praising and panning music for scores of outlets for over 30 years now. 📧 jim@jimfarbermusic.com
@jamesmbradley.bsky.social
Historian, documentary editor (not the filmmaking kind), educator, Yankees fan, author of "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician," just published by Oxford University Press.
@debraraecohen.bsky.social
Finally here. Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, M/m; past president, CELJ. Modernism and media, especially the BBC. Anti-fascist, trans ally. Bean soup, pickles, word games. She/her. 🍉
@originalsp.in
TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America Pic: thx @gregpak!
@pollys.bsky.social
Author of Enthusiasm and The Grimm Legacy series Frequent baker of popovers Admirer of mourning stickpins, portrait miniatures, rococo tongs, meteors, meteorites, proboscideans, and novels with frontispieces
@pagankennedy.bsky.social
Author of "The Secret History of the Rape Kit" and 11 other books. Contributor to NY Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, etc. Former "zine queen" of the 1990s.
@alisasolomon.bsky.social
Journalist/author/theater critic, prof, dramaturg . . . rootless cosmopolitan.
@julie-phillips.com
Author of THE BABY ON THE FIRE ESCAPE, on creative work and mothering. Biographer of Ursula K. Le Guin (forthcoming) & James Tiptree, Jr.
@bajjohn.bsky.social
@nathandeuel.bsky.social
Author, FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB, Amazon Best Book of the Month. Has written @ NYT Mag, Harper's, GQ, etc. Continuing Lecturer @ UCLA. Lives in Venice Beach, CA
@jennpozner.bsky.social
Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist Author: Reality Bites Back **Media literacy graphic novel coming soon! Founder: Women In Media & News Speaker: DM to book keynotes/workshops Commentary:ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE Comedy nerd Brooklyn She/Her
@scottpb.bsky.social
writer of books • founder of magazines • teacher of University of Michigan students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
@tarafireball.bsky.social
Twitter refuge seeking friends Brooklyn, NYC Photos - Commentary - Art Science, Environment, LandUse, Future, Neurology, Space, Law, Tech
@sharon12.bsky.social
Writer, film archivist. New Yorker turned Mainer. ED, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP). Carnegie Tech & Columbia. Co-ed, Powers of Desire. Wrote Going All the Way & a bunch of other stuff.
@dougsimmons.bsky.social
Senior gadfly -- 22 years at the Village Voice, 8 years at the Boston Phoenix. Be kind there's still time, pace Larkin.
@lenoratodaro.bsky.social
Writer, editor, sidewalk naturalist. Books: Sea Lions in the Parking Lot (2021) and Hang Tough, Horseshoe Crab!(2026) Words: NYT, AFAR, Atlantic, Kirkus, etc. #NASW #SCBWI #12x12 website: www.lenoratodaro.com
@fastlerner.bsky.social
Environmental reporter at ProPublica. Brooklynite. Fan of nature, facts, pie
@charlesmcnulty.bsky.social
LA Times theater critic, CalArts theater faculty, Village Voice alum. https://www.latimes.com/people/charles-mcnulty
@joypress.bsky.social
Vanity Fair correspondent. Author of Stealing the Show. Here, there and everywhere
@tromano.bsky.social
Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture. https://linktr.ee/tromano_writer