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Peter Steinberg

@peter23.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, maker of food, rider of bike, Brooklynite, movie watcher, reader, music listener, person who looks at his iPhone too much, literary agent at UTA

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · Nov 11

Here’s where you can submit to me: www.unitedtalent.com/publishing-s...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 4h

My favorite Struzan story is that he was doing the poster for Indy at Disneyland, but they didn't have the rights to Ford's likeness. Fed up with working around the problem, Struzan just called Ford and was like, "hey, can I use your face for this," and Ford said, "if it's for you, absolutely."

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 6h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 4h

"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan

Struzan's painted posters for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no.

Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 5h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

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Alan J. Porter @alanjporter.bsky.social · 1d

Best bookstore sign of the year…

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20h

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 20h

Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 8h

My Red Hook Tavern burger vs. their Red Hook Tavern burger. I’m on Resy.

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Bill Roorbach @billroorbach.bsky.social · 9h

Enormous puffballs after (at last) a little rain in Maine. So far a beautiful pasta with puff parmigiana, a cream of moon soup, and a lot of reverence for these resonant beings. Any more ideas for meals? 🌱 #fungi

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Shona Kinsella @shonak.bsky.social · 10h

8yo is inside a blanket fort, reading. 20 minutes of silence, then a big gasp and the call of “plot twist!”

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Michael M Smith @michaelmartinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Hi everyone out there. My first post on Bluesky, Booksky.
Having spent 30 years in education and teaching, I now embark on a different path with my first book. A collection of short story fiction. Go on, order a copy at the link attached.
mailto: [email protected] #booksky

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 9h

The sounds

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you so much. Yours looks beautiful.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 16h

Possible to get the recipe? Thank you.

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Shweta @thebluemango.in · 16h

Perks of waking up early - got to bake this beautiful #bread loaf.

Kitchen smells amazing! 🍞 🍜

A large, freshly baked loaf, with a domed shiny brown top, resting and cooling off on a silver wire rack.

Inside view of an oven with warm, golden light. A silver bread tin in which white bread is being baked. This photo has been taken just at the beginning. The top is beginning to dome and the edges have brown spots forming on it.

Inside view of an oven with warm, golden light. A silver bread tin in which white bread is being baked. This is towards the end of baking time - the loaf has risen evenly and beautifully, acquiring a deep golden brown colour during the process.

Side view of the silver tin and the shiny, golden brown top of the bread loaf that's about to come out of the oven.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 17h

Jake Moody drills it from 38, Bears win

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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · 19h

The memory of it did creep me out a little as my husband showed me something on a map last night:

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19h

Tish James is an American hero.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 19h

"I stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate, I will not give in, I will not give up."

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks out after being indicted by the Trump DOJ.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 19h

Agents turning down representing the Top 10 from Modern Library top 100 if they were written today:

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History Defined @historydefined.bsky.social · 19h

Dorothy (Judy Garland) and the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) together for the final time, 1968.

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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 27d

We had the incomparable @jasondiamond.bsky.social on the podcast to discuss his writing career and his debut novel, KAPLAN'S PLOT!

Listen below!

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/31i6...

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Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · 22h

ONE WEEK AWAY—MONDAY, OCTOBER 20: We pushed this month’s reading off a week to the Third Monday, an exception to our usual Second Monday schedule. Can’t wait to host @jamiattenberg.bsky.social @jasondiamond.bsky.social @maris.bsky.social @karissachen.bsky.social Lauren Morrow & Nikkitha Bakshani!

Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · 13d

Monday, Oct. 20, 8pm: The Franklin Park Reading Series celebrates the paperback release of @jamiattenberg.bsky.social’s novel A Reason to See You Again! Jami will be joined by stellar authors @jasondiamond.bsky.social @maris.bsky.social @karissachen.bsky.social Lauren Morrow & Nikkitha Bakshani.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 20h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 19h

I thought the Alien tv show was only decent but the best part by far was this weird Alien-goat creature. Amazing visual which is now stuck in my head.

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