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Irish writer & poet: Gospel of Orla (2023, 7 Stories); Pigeon Songs (2019, Seren); rep Artellus
Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Writer. Partial to buzzards, porridge and Margaret Dumont.
Author of The Atmospherians and People Collide. 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
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A magazine of politics, culture and art
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Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
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Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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free radical film archive
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translator Монгол/Hungarian to English, occasional poet, adoptee
Under a Pannonion Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary (ed.), Seagull Books, 2025
Funeral, and Other Stories, by Edina Szvoren, Seagull Books, 2026
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Upcoming translation: Deep Fakes: Collected Poems by Dan Sociu, World Poetry Books 2026
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The official account of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We invest in changing lives.
You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to outsmart the Macho Man.
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An annual celebration of The People’s History, bringing together left authors, readers, organizers, and community members to debate & discuss strategies for a better world.
San Francisco, CA
the contemporary and its curiosities
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The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU form an internationally-known respository for research on Labor and the Left.
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writer in a quiet phase. mostly music here
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The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information.
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Reporting, rebelling and truth-telling from the feminist front lines for over 50 years. Read more at MsMagazine.com.
The French Institute for Culture and Education. Deepening the connections between the US and the French-speaking world through art, ideas, and language.
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Radical indie comics publisher
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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
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Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia. An online publication of literary criticism focusing on debuts, works in translation, and books published by small presses.
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Featuring the best short stories, poems, essays annually since 1976.
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runs on anxiety and wide-eyed optimism
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debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY (May 2026)
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
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Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 98+ years of quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
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The official account of MZS.press, online store and publishing imprint. Created by author, critic, journalist and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz. Business and account are run by Judith Carter. We're biblio-cinephiles who love the arts and support artists.
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
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Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
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Owner of Myopic Books and formerly 50% of Chicago Reader's Gossip Wolf. Fuck Ayn Rand.
Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
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Join the underground generation. • A literary magazine pushing boundaries since 1957. Edited by Dale Peck, published by John Oakes. Now online, no paywall! Profile art by Sue Coe. https://evergreenreview.com
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Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
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Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics.
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The West’s oldest bookstore (since 1851!) 🎉
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Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
We are a queer independent bookstore & coffeeshop in Bushwick. 219 Irving Ave, Brooklyn
Reader (EN, FR, PT, SP). Literary Translator. Apprentice Bookbinder. Traveler. Amateur Photographer. Collect Books, Typewriters & Outsider Art. Scots-Irish American by birth; Portuguese-Mexican by inclination.
Official account of Poets & Writers, the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers since 1970. Sign up for our newsletter: at.pw.org/newsletter
tall gay nerd. he/him. advanced degrees in height, gayness, nerdness.
reality show editor, work seen on a&e, bravo, quibi. maker of goofy photoshops and questionable victorian detective satire.
writing, etc: https://linktr.ee/dennisbhooper
Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
Book publicist for authors, thinkers, and doers. Baker and dog aficionado. Opinions mine, all mine.
Comix writer and English Professor.
SF Bay. Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey (7 Stories/Censored Press)
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writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
filmmaker, REGROUPING, BORN IN FLAMES, WORKING GIRLS, editor of WHOREPHOBIA: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life. borninflamesmovie.com
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World’s tallest living artist ✨
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indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Editor | Critic | German-English Translator |
Writing in @thedriftmag | WSJ Arts in Review | Ops @ New York Review of Architecture
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Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer & Chair of Resonance FM
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writer
bookstore manager, Rough Draft Bar & Books
podcasts editor at Literary Hub & host of The Lit Hub Podcast
"His manners are as bad as his grasp of the issue involved" — some rando in the LH comments section
Publishing books since 1972, with a particular focus on poetry and literature.
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Two locations in Bellingham and Lynden with floors and floors of books and gifts.
Your favorite nonprofit indie publisher of radical nonfiction since 1854.
beacon.org
editor @ npr music
hazelcills.com
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries. A project of @NYUEngelberg.
