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«Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024)
Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar. I also crochet.
Wife. Mum. Worker bee. Writer. Linguist. Reads a lot. Cats. Tea. Music. Owner of a frankly unnecessary amount of hair. She/her.
Writer & lit critic with work in Literary Review, Times Literary Supplement, British Journal of Photography and elsewhere.
Author of Useless Activity (2022, paperback 2025)
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tech & society @washingtonpost.com
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west coast type A // publicity @littlebrown
The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
co-EIC @nplusonemag, writer
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Senior Editor at Audubon magazine. Michigander in Chicago. He/him.
trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
contributing editor (books, politics, etc.) at Jezebel. editor + writer at other places (and for hire). New Yorker in Berlin. www.biettetimmons.com
Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
NYC
business writing: thedrawingboard.net
other writing: medium.com/@plewis67
Rootless cosmopolitan | Reading wildly | 'Obscure enough to be left in the sweetest of solitudes.' — De Quincey
https://timesflowstemmed.com
We publish literature from around the world. UNlikely voices and UNexpected stories. Smith & Taylor Classics. Based in Los Angeles since 2014.
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A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & philosophy. PhD (English) —> JD —> Furman Fellowship at NYU Law. Philly homer; mayor of the quiet car. she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
Urbanism through popculture, lived experiences, climate change on Buttondown every other day: https://buttondown.com/StreetHaunting
Words in LA Review of Books, Atlantic, Frieze, Art Review, Virginia Quarterly, Public Books, etc.
www.anandimishra.com
Translator from French and Italian - literature, music, history, arts
Executive Editor at Scribner
Histories, families, forms of historical writing. Professor of French, French Studies, and History, NYU.
The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
15,000 creative writers since 2002. NYC and Online classes. Write with us.
Publisher at Daunt Books; she/her
Indie publisher launching in 2026!
www.book-shelfie.com/submit-book
Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.
Researcher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Translator from German, translation activist. Latest translation: NAPLES 1825, by Martin Mittelmeier (Yale UP). Current project: biography of Hannah Arendt, by Thomas Meyer (Penguin). Lives in Princeton, NJ.
Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
Reporter at New York Times. marc.tracy@nytimes.com. I'll play through it.
Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
WSJ reporter and podcast host.
Author of The Family Snitch: A Daughter's Memoir of Truth and Lies.
Out on Feb. 3, 2026.
One of the world’s longest-published literary magazines, now in its 99th year. Your passport to great reading. Online at https://worldliteraturetoday.org/.
Brooklyn's oldest bookstore. Serving Park Slope since 1971. Also owns Terrace Books. Follow us on Instagram: @communitybookstore
https://www.communitybookstore.net/
Rock critic since 1967, ain't stopping now. Consumer Guide reborn at robertchristgau.substack.com.
The Peoples Pop Polls, run by Tom Ewing. Congratulations to CMAT - "The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station", winner of the World Cup Of 2025! Currently open polls: https://peoples-pop.com/2025/10/24/currently-open-polls/
I am moved by visual arts; I believe our genius lies in our imagination. my images, unless otherwise noted.
Books, etc.
“Sometimes, I, too, sought expression. I know now that my gods grant me no more than allusion or mention”: Borges
We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Not the best birder. Definitely not the best photographer. Usually in Central Park, but will travel for Timberdoodles! If you follow and repost a photo, I'll see you and follow back.
Birds and nature in Manhattan. bigmanhattanyear.com
Theater critic at the New York Times. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!
The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Editor, The Guardian Long Read
Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
A wallflower of sorts. Embracing the good. I dig old bowling alleys, piano lounges in hotels, and rain delays.
Writer in The Guardian, The Times, The FT, The Independent, etc.
Retired book editor, terminal bookworm, first-time author of THE INSIDER: MALCOLM COWLEY AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. I like movies too.
Harlem-based poet and writer, book publishing veteran, now developing an organization dedicated to promoting the intersection of civic education and artists of upper Manhattan.
Executive Editor at Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs.com)
https://bradluen.substack.com/
PhD, Prof. UQAR Québec
Mammal & Bird Ecology, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Arctic, Birding. To my 3 kids: Joy & Hope!
Écologie des mammifères & des oiseaux, changements climatiques, biodiversité, Arctique, ornitho. À mes 3 enfants : Joie & Espoir
Editor - New Nottingham Journal
Literary editor - Leftlion Magazine
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Writer-in-residence with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature '24
Original Yale Writers Workshop Faculty|Writings: The Paris Review, Granta, TIME, The Atlantic, Story, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Electric Lit etc.|Author of 100+ guides to world literature for PRH, S&S, HMH, HC, GA📚 "Doesn't look sick" https://linktr.ee/jebanach
Distributing indie books and advocating for small presses since 1985. Your next favorite book is from an independent publisher ❤️ 📖 cbsd.com
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Indie publisher est. 2000. Essays, philosophy, science, and the cult smash of 1930, His Monkey Wife.
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Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE
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I write love notes to black people & dis songs to white supremacy. 90% love. 10% dis.
I deserve it all.
Huge nerd. Sings and codes, not necessarily in that order. Not big on own pronouns, happy to respect yours.
Leave my trans brothers and sisters alone.
Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder.
Economics reporter with The Globe and Mail. Based in Toronto. mrendell@globeandmail.com
New York-based literary agency
Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
We are an independent publisher of literary fiction, high-end mystery and noir, and narrative non-fiction from around the world.
europaeditions.com
Reader, bleeder and mercy pleader
Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. thetimes.com/culture/books
Pulitzer-sharing journo + author
current gig: head of investigations @GuardianUS
prior gigs: @ICIJorg (Panama Papers, etc.), Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity, Wall Street Journal, Roanoke (Va.) Times
linktr.ee/michaelwhudson
Frequent reader and occasional reviewer
I’m a Reader living in the Sequoia National Forest, learning photography & birding. 🤓
I do follow some political feeds, but rarely comment. Just trying to stay informed.
Unapologetically pro-Vax.
#Nerdfighteria #DFTBA #EndTB #birding #photography
French-to-English translation (Ann Scott's SUPERSTARS out April 7) // college dropout // day job in books at FSG // formerly Director of Events at Politics and Prose Bookstore + Music Director at WXYC
Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
