Substacks recommended by David Long

Recommended by David Long

sneaker wave magazine

real life in real words

Katie Lumsden’s Newsletter

Writing news and more

what now?

By mary g.

writing and talking about writing and other things (but mostly prompts)

Mary g. knows what's what; if you're smart you'd do well to climb aboard her Substack.

- David Long

Comedy, Tragedy

By Barb Natividad

Disabled Filipino-American writer in midlife living with bipolar disorder. 🎭

The Quivering Pen

By David Abrams

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

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

Lucas’s Substack

By Lucas Kunce via Substack

Book Work

By Derek Krissoff

Books, culture, labor

Auraist: picking the best-written books of the month

By Sean

32K+ readers. Followers, please note that only free or paid subscribers receive our picks of the best-written books from US & UK prize shortlists & major reviews, & masterclasses by their (sometimes world-renowned) authors on prose style.

Big rich site.

- David Long

Necessary Salt by Joy Sullivan

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

An Unfinished Story

By Sarah McCraw Crow

Book recommendations, late bloomers, art and artists, and a lot of midlife authors. Because at midlife, our story is still unfinished.

TODAY YOU WILL WRITE

By TaraShea Nesbit

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.

Wordness

By Heidi Pitlor

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

Bookish

By Christine Sneed

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

Kind Regards

Humorous reports from the office desk.

Steinbergdrawscartoons

By Avi Steinberg

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

He nails it.

- David Long

Sara Rauch's Coffee Corner

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

Republic of Consciousness

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

Open Windows- Ann Telnaes

Ann Telnaes- Artist, visual storyteller, creator of "Open Windows"

The recently-quit editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post. You should follow her work.

- David Long

Release McCracken

By Elizabeth McCracken

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

everyone is entitled to my own opinion

By Jeff Tiedrich

I read the news today, oh boy

The Booker Prizes

Would you like to get newsletters worth reading about books worth reading? Long reads, original video, exclusive interviews and much more from the world's greatest writers of fiction.

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

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

Substack Reads

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

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

By Joyce Vance

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.

Range of Motion

By Martha Bayne

A newsletter about taking up space. From a social justice-minded, Chicagoish editor who is recovering from cancer and learning to dance again.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Garrison Keillor and Friends

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.

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

Liana’s Newsletter

By Liana Finck

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. www.lianafinck.com