Virtual Memories Show Guest-List Starter Pack
Here’s a bunch of BSky people who’ve appeared on my weekly Virtual Memories Show podcast
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@vmspod.bsky.social
@vauhinivara.bsky.social
author of pulitzer finalist THE IMMORTAL KING RAO, story prize-longlisted THIS IS SALVAGED, and SEARCHES. contributing writer at businessweek. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project.
@elongreen.bsky.social
Edgar Award-winning author, LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (out now) http://www.elongreen.com
@mauricevellekoop.bsky.social
Queer Toronto illustrator and cartoonist, he/him author of the graphic memoir, “I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together”
@barbaranessim.bsky.social
Artist that never stops challenging boundaries, b.1939, New York Instagram @barbaranessim Email list sign up: https://mailchi.mp/21434c6bf6e3/sign-up-landing-page
@aaronlange.bsky.social
Author of AIN'T IT FUN and PEPPERMINT WEREWOLF. Co-founder of Stone Church Press. https://stonechurchpress.com/
@pkuper.bsky.social
Cartoonist: Mad, (Spy vs Spy) New Yorker,Charlie Hebdo,The Nation. Co-founder of World War 3 illustrated. Harvard prof.
@dangoldman.net
マンガ家 // Writer // Artist // Publisher I'm the cat who makes the haunted Miami real estate comic RED LIGHT PROPERTIES 🏠👻🍄 💌 New RLP comics & stories : kinjin.co 📖 RLP: Unfinished Business : shop.kinjin.co
@silentfilmmusic.bsky.social
silent film accompanist-historian-presenter; Undercrank Prods. home video; archivist of Ernie Kovacs television collection
@drooker.bsky.social
Cover artist for the New Yorker, Graphic Novelist: NAKED CITY website: Drooker.com signed prints: Drooker.com/prints
@graham-chaffee.bsky.social
tattooist and owner of purple panther tattoo - los angeles, california i also make comics :) gschaffee@yahoo.com
@kriotaw.bsky.social
Graphic medicine comics, interdisciplinary artist, LMT, bioethics, anatomy, health science/arts/graphic med educator, and more!
@atsurumi.bsky.social
(they/them) Kidlit author/illustrator, cartoonist, game lizard. Books include Accident!, Crab Cake, and I'm On It! andreatsurumi.com https://substack.com/@amusedbycorners
@tisserand.bsky.social
Look for my books Krazy and Sugarcane Academy and The Kingdom of Zydeco and My Father When Young at indy bookstores. I answer mail at MichaelTisserand.com
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
@drsinclair.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst in private practice who works with people internationally. Host of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/rawsin_
@ramansehgal.bsky.social
Entrepreneur. Investor. Host of Molecule to Market podcast. Founder of life science agency ramarketing & talent firm Lead Candidate. Author of The Floundering Founder. NUFC🏁. Dad. 👉🏼ramansehgal.com
@grosenfeld.bsky.social
President, Center for Jewish History; Prof. of History, Fairfield University; latest book: Fascism in America (co-edited with Janet Ward)
@donjrobertson.bsky.social
Author of "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor", and "How to Think Like Socrates". President of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens.
@keilerjean.bsky.social
@calreid.bsky.social
Jazz, books, comics, baseball (sports), and beer (politics?), art (?), retired senior news editor Publishers Weekly, retired editor PW Comics World, husband, wannabe athlete, Black Lives Matter
@emilyraboteau.bsky.social
Author of THE PROFESSOR’S DAUGHTER, SEARCHING FOR ZION, and LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL. Professor at CUNY.
@tmronin.bsky.social
I take pictures, play guitar and eat ramen http://teamrockstarimages.com
@natepowell.bsky.social
I make comics: Fall Through/ Lies My Teacher Told Me/ Save It For Later/ March/ Run/ Come Again. DIANA out in 2026. orders/info/etc here: linktr.ee/natepowell
@spinsker.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Writer, Editor, Translator.
@classicshowbiz.bsky.social
I write books. You consider reading them. The History of Canadian Comedy will be published by Penguin Random House in 2026. oldshowbiz.tumblr.com
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
@merrillmarkoe.bsky.social
Writer of things intended to be humor and animal lover. I post A LOT of pieces on my Substack page:"Still Looking for the Joke" https://substack.com/@merrillmarkoe?utm_source=user-menu
@valya.bsky.social
Writes about the experience of magic in the world 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Author of The Silence of Trees and Mother Christmas, editor of Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora. 🌻
@brampresser.bsky.social
Writes stuff. Tries to be kind. Dirty punk. Obsessive reader. Obsessed Dad.
@tesslewis.bsky.social
Writer and translator from French and German. Walter Benjamin, Montaigne, Lutz Seiler, Maja Haderlap, etc. tesslewis.org
@kkoja.bsky.social
Joy belongs to us Writer & producer, fan of animal rights, Detroit native, antifascist spanner in the works. She/her
@nancyehightower.bsky.social
Words in NBCNewsTHINK, Washington Post, & Elsewhere. Photographer of surreal NYC Books: The Acolyte & Elementari Rising. She/her.
@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social
Humans make the world. We can remake it anytime WHAT ROUGH BEAST https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-rough-beast/id1787176282 https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/ The New Republic, The Guardian, WIRED, Politico, LAT, NYT, Atlantic, &c
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
@elmcitytree.bsky.social
Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7 Personal account
@glenqgold.bsky.social
Carter Beats the Devil, Sunnyside, I Will Be Complete, and allegedly television though you can be excused for doubting that.
@michaelgerber.bsky.social
Boss @ American Bystander. Proud papa of Barry Trotter. Cerebrally Palsied. Survivor of bonus mystery illness. Lover of print comedy & cartoons, Worsley acupuncture, qigong, trains, chicken curry. Mayor of Santa Monica (unofficial).
@nathanfoxy.bsky.social
Artist & Co-Creator of The Weatherman, Image Comics | @WM_Comic Illustrator, Comic Book & Story Development Artist | foxnathan.com Chair, SVA MFA Visual Narrative | mfavn.sva.edu
@scottedelman.bsky.social
Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of SF, fantasy & horror. And host of the Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
@lizadonnelly.bsky.social
New Yorker cartoonist and writer, Substack called Seeing Things. substack.com/lizadonnelly Director: Women Laughing documentary. womenlaughingfilm.com Gonna change world with humor.
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Draws and writes and gets in fights Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@derfbackderf.bsky.social
Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
@zibaldoni.bsky.social
山人. 'The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper' is available everywhere. 'Book of the Year' pick by Waterstones, New Yorker, New Statesman, Spectator, Toronto Globe, Engelsberg Ideas, Lit Hub, Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday, Stephen L. Carter...
@mkupperman.bsky.social
What fresh hell is this Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MichaelKupperman Art 4 Sale: https://michaelkupperman.com/shop
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social
Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
@edithmayhall.bsky.social
Durham University Classics Prof./cultural historian keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
@jonathanames.bsky.social
Author of a dozen books, including the DOLL series: A MAN NAMED DOLL (2021), THE WHEEL OF DOLL (2022), and KARMA DOLL (January 2025). Other titles include: YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, WAKE UP, SIR!, and THE EXTRA MAN. TV shows: BLUNT TALK, BORED TO DEATH.
@endlessbookshelf.bsky.social
Buddhist vegetarian polyglot, author of Another green world (2025), The Private Life of Books (2020), A Conversation larger than the Universe (2018) / ‘the reader is the artist’ | Tom Phillips https://endlessbookshelf.net https://temporary-culture.com
@byagoda.bsky.social
Author "Gobsmacked!”; “About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made"; "Will Rogers: A Biography"; "How To Not Write Bad" etc.
@ronhogan.bsky.social
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
@scottmeslow.bsky.social
Author: — A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE: THE EXTRAORDINARY UNTOLD HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS (Running Press, coming soon) — FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH LOVE: THE RISE AND FALL (AND RISE AGAIN) OF THE ROMANTIC COMEDY (Dey Street, available now)
@langealexandra.bsky.social
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
@gtlabsrat.bsky.social
…writes comics about science. EINSTEIN is out now! https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626728769/einstein I’m also a NASA Solar System Ambassador, so let's talk about space stuff too! Find me on the (wider) web at www.gt-labs.com
@priscillagilman.bsky.social
Author of The Anti-Romantic Child (Harper) & The Critic's Daughter (Norton). Former English prof @ Yale & Vassar. Mother, Writer, Critic, Teacher. www.priscillagilman.com
@briangdillon.bsky.social
Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
@dannyfingeroth.bsky.social
Author of upcoming bio "Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin" due in Nov from CRP. Also Stan Lee bio, "A Marvelous Life." Lots of comics and comics related stuff. Audio book narrator. Consultant to JewCE Comic Con and Will Eisner Studios.
@mrphoenix.bsky.social
Stashes pens around the house like drinkers stash bottles. Comics for cash. Where applicable. Artist/Author: Crash Course, Rumble Strip, Donny Digits, Sugar Buzz!, Plastic Culture, etc https://woodrowphoenix.co.uk/
@hughryan.bsky.social
Author & queer historian. The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019). I also teach nonfiction in the Bennington MFA program. Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/HughRyan
@andrewporter01.bsky.social
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof. www.andrewporterwriter.com
@lancerichardson.bsky.social
Writer. Australian. TRUE NATURE, my biography of Peter Matthiessen, out October 2025 from Pantheon Books. Faculty in the Bennington MFA in Writing. He/him. www.lancenrichardson.com
@elizabethhand.bsky.social
Writer & old punk in Maine. Firewood stacked but my lawn needs work. Most recent novel: A Haunting on the Hill. Forthcoming: Unspeakable Things
@acmedarryl.bsky.social
Writer and Cartoonist. Book's include Psychiatric Tales, Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful, and Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator. Coming in September from Seven Stories, Elon Musk: American Oligarch.
@thelatejonnypapers.bsky.social
Writer of books, enthusiast, Toronto Blue Jays fan. Obsessed with politics, pugs and Lana Del Rey. 80th generation Judean refugee.
@fieryparticle.bsky.social
Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️ Agent: David Higham, https://rb.gy/t8twa https://linktr.ee/lbeers
@lisamorton.bsky.social
Writer, bookseller, Halloween expert, paranormal historian, L.A. woman
@richardbutner.com
Writer, occasional performer, shipwrecked jester (ghost mixologist, Eagle Scout).
@csilverman.bsky.social
Designer, artist, iPhone Notes limit pusher. I know the difference between a "font" and a "typeface", but I'm not obnoxious about it. 🌈 https://notes.art 🏠 https://csilverman.com ✍️ https://shortform.csilverman.com
@katemaru.bsky.social
Writes, teaches, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles. ALTERATIONS @runningwildpress THE COLLECTIVE @writlargeprojects https://linktr.ee/katemaruyama
@davidnleopold.bsky.social
Father, husband, curator, author, archivist. gardener, music lover, twin, and cat housemate. Creative Director, The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. Views are my own.
@pbrainey.bsky.social
My graphic novel Why Don't You Love Me? is out now from Drawn and Quarterly. Winner of the Observer Graphic Short Story Prize 2020. Cartoonist for Viz.
@christopherbrown.bsky.social
Writer & lawyer. Author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES • christopherbrown.com
@deanhaspiel.bsky.social
Emmy award winning NYC cartoonist + playwright. Creator of Billy Dogma, The Red Hook, Covid Cop & Chest Face.
@leelacorman.bsky.social
Painting, comics. Books: Victory Parade (Schocken-Pantheon, 2024), You Are Not A Guest (Fieldmouse Press, 2023), Unterzakhn (Schocken-Pantheon 2012). Assistant Professor, RISD, founding instructor at Sequential Artists Workshop. http://www.leelacorman.com
@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.
@kylecassidy.bsky.social
Author, photographer, pen nerd, Twitter refugee. Most recent books: *Lopapeysa* w/ Joan Dark, *The (mostly) Complete Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal* & *This is Only Earth, My Dear* - ElizabethSiddal.com - Repped by Gordon Warnock / Fuse Literary