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
@wdavidmarx.bsky.social
Author of Ametora, Status and Culture, and the upcoming Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century (Nov '25). Newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io. Tokyo, Japan.
@ilanacmyer.bsky.social
Author of the fantasy trilogy The Harp and Ring Sequence (Tor Books). Words in many places—most recently here: https://ilanacmyer.substack.com
@brettmartin.bsky.social
Correspondent, GQ; Contributor, NYT Mag, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, Garden & Gun, et. al. Three Beard awards. Author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution. http://www.brettmartin.org
@bymattruff.bsky.social
Author of Lovecraft Country, Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, and various other novels. https://www.bymattruff.com
@keefknight.bsky.social
Gentleman Cartoonist and the world's foremost Star Wars prequel-denier ("What prequels?")
@benschwartz.bsky.social
Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, The New Republic, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: Dara Kaye/WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
@richardkadrey.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. His podcast with Violet Blue is Raised By Horror.
@hotelfred.bsky.social
Cartoonist. Epitaph will read "Drew the Muppets and died". Immigrant. #comics hotelfred.com http://patreon.com/hotelfred https://hotelfred.weebly.com/comics.html linktr.ee/hotelfred http://hotelfred.bigcartel.com http://mastodon.art/@hotelfred
@klg19.bsky.social
Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Columbia University. New Yorker. Movie buff. Architecture fan. Medievalist. My life won an Eisner Award. I contain multitudes. https://guides.library.columbia.edu/graphic-novels (I don’t follow-back empty feeds)
@levistahl.bsky.social
Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
@calebcrain.bsky.social
Into #birding, #CrossFit, and sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow" More at https://calebcrain.substack.com and https://steamthing.com. New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-c
@jessesword.com
Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia.
@hayleycampbell.bsky.social
Writer: GQ, WIRED, Guardian, etc. Contributing editor, Empire. Must Watch on BBC 5 Live. Read my book, All the Living and the Dead. hayleycampbell.com
@scottmccloud.bsky.social
Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@rubenbolling.bsky.social
Cartoonist, Writer. Two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Herblock Prize, RFK Journalism Award, Berryman Award, NCS Awards, Top 76 Theme Park Influencer, Olympic Hopeful
@stoya.bsky.social
Writer. Raconteur. Sex Icon. Intimacy coach through BestSelfPsych (but not a psychotherapist). Regular column at Slate, occasional bylines elsewhere. USA born. Living in Serbia. Retired from adult due to difficulties accessing payment for lewd work
@kurtandersen.bsky.social
Co-creator Command Z (with Steven Soderbergh), author Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century, etc., previously host/co-creator Studio 360, columnist New Yorker, editor New York, co-founder Spy https://www.kurtandersen.com/
@mattbors.bsky.social
Writer of the new TOXIC AVENGER comic and co-writer of JUSTICE WARRIORS. Founded The Nib (RIP). Comics editor at In These Times magazine. https://mattbors.substack.com/
@tomgauld.bsky.social
Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available to preorder! www.tomgauld.com
@vmspod.bsky.social
I make a weekly podcast feat. talks w/writers, artists, cartoonists & other culture-making people, at https://chimeraobscura.com/vm Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod