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An occasional dispatch, featuring books, cats, travel, food, and movies/TV. But mostly books.

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

Books, culture, labor

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What it means to be a woman in the world making slow, chewy art

Books, art, late bloomers, and midlife authors, because at midlife, our story is still unfinished.

TODAY YOU WILL WRITE is a weekly uplift from your encouraging writer friend, TaraShea Nesbit, author of BEHELD and THE WIVES OF LOS ALAMOS. Expect multi-genre creative writing prompts, craft glow-ups, and love.

Life, creating, being a writer, and publishing--from the longtime series editor of The Best American Short Stories.

Books & book-adjacent topics, taking the long view, the writing life, and related resources. Posts every 5-6 days.

Humorous reports from the office desk.

Cartoons, thoughts, more cartoons, worries, and more!

Genre-agnostic & coffee-fueled meditations on craft, mapmaking, myth, ritual, texture, books, gardens, & other oddball delights.

Sharing as much news as we possibly can about small presses in the UK and Ireland, including updates about our annual prize.

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

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A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Your guide to great writing, podcasts, and shows happening on Substack

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

A newsletter about living in a body, and what it does to your mind. I write about dance, illness, aging, and recovering agency from a misspent youth. Also, circus!

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

The reader is my notebook

This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.

A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things.

Monthly Flash Fiction Craft Articles & Prompts by Writer & Teacher, Kathy Fish

Do not be conformed to this world

How we write is how we live. And how we live is how we write. A dose of creative writing for the soul.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.