Something odd will cross my mind, or a memory will catch me off guard, or my monkey mind will swing from the ceiling fan, or a tiny ant will crawl up the bookcase next to my chair. Then I get curious and curiosity is the first step in an unknown direction

Thresholds is an interviews project with writers and artists about the messiness, overlap, u-turns, revelations, and friction points from which their best work is made.

The Golden Hour is a newsletter about thriving and caring for others on a rapidly-changing planet.

A newsletter for nonfiction-curious readers with easy book recs and a growing list of nonfiction authors worth following on Substack.

Pine State is a newsletter that offers chatter on publishing, DIY publicity advice, and as much fun as the Hokey Pokey for writers & readers by Cassie Mannes Murray of Pine State Publicity

For people who think critically about books. An insider perspective on book publishing, writing criticism, and my biography currently in production, THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK. Also featuring an occasional group read of Israeli and Palestinian authors.

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry from an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

Feminist takes on literature and culture.

Hot goss about Sylvia, bad jokes about Ted

why writing is hard & how to do it anyway

The reader is my notebook

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

A monthly newsletter about disasters.

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

A twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process, with lessons and insights from novelists, painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians delivered to your inbox every other Tuesday. From the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.