Substacks recommended by Jo Paoletti

Recommended by Jo Paoletti

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The Substack Soirée

By Sara & Keeley

Free resources and insights to help make your Substack the most exclusive party in town. *PLUS* a new class from ME&ORLA. Subscribe to hear more!

Personal Canon Formation

By John Halbrooks

A newsletter about how we read and listen to enrich our lives

Deep Thoughts

By Master Coach A

Welcome to Deep Thoughts! Explore diverse topics on health, wealth relationships, psychology, and more. Subscribe for free to receive thought-provoking insights and interesting facts. Join our community of curious minds! #DeepThoughts #StayCurious

Gender Mystique

By Jo Paoletti

Musings on gender and fashion, some old, some new, by a retired dress historian who hasn't stopped musing.

Grizzly Pear Jr.

By Justus

sketches, poetry, and microessays from the suburban desert

The Empty Notebook: Personal Essays and Process

By Ryan Lancaster

Thoughts on literature, pop culture, music, and whatever else. We've got essays, recommendations, and more.

Thoughtful engaging essays about books, music, and life.

- Jo Paoletti

Microseasons

By Ann Collins

A Field Guide to Savoring 72 Seasons of the Year

BordoLines

By Susan Bordo

I write about politics, gender, history, popular culture, and mass media—what moves me, what delights me, what irritates me, and what worries me—from movies and cable tv to mainstream news publications and broadcasts to commercials and ads.

Hold My Chalice

By Rev. Kimberley Debus

Thoughts about Unitarian Universalist worship, theology, governance, and congregational life after lockdown

Zuko's Musings

By Jenn Zuko

Stuff and nonsense about the intellectual and otherwise nerdings-out I do on a thrice-weekly basis. Cultural commentary, literary analysis, theatrical and academic rantings. Cool? Cool.

everyone is entitled to my own opinion

By Jeff Tiedrich

I read the news today, oh boy

The Moral of the Story

By Kevin James Doyle

Stories where I learned something and hopefully you learn something as well.

Kevin and I share a commitment to honest writing about real life. He's a better writer, tho.

- Jo Paoletti

Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing

Buy my YA literary punk novel, THE CREW. Find me on Facebook. Author. Book editor. Thinker. Contrarian. Essays. Politics. Memoir. Book reviews. Fiction. No teams. No loyalties. Straight bourbon honesty.

Reasons Not to Quit

By Hanne Blank Boyd

A newsletter for everyone trying to find pragmatic, kind, and maybe even helpful ways to right-size and cope with the arrrgh of life.

Footnotes and Tangents

By Simon Haisell

A community for curious and creative readers. Slow book groups reading Leo Tolstoy and Hilary Mantel. Fiction by Simon Haisell.

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.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Everyday Knitter

By Louise Tilbrook

About knitting, life and all the bits in between.

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

Tormented? Driven Witless? Whipsawed by Confusion? Ask E. Jean is the longest currently-running advice column in American publishing.

The EndGame

By Don Akchin

Aging with purpose and joy. The EndGame is an inquisitive, empathetic, and humorous exploration of all aspects of age, for those who are not ready to fade away.

Steady

By Dan Rather

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

Weirdo Poetry

By Jason McBride

Exploring ways to "suck the marrow out of life" with poetry, comics, and other nonsense.

The SneakyArt Post

By Nishant Jain

Secretly drawn art of the world, delivered to your inbox.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.

Both Are True

By Alex Dobrenko

Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to o̶n̶e̶ two, and friend to all.

Warning: Be sure to finish your beverage before reading. Failure to do so may cause keyboard damage and/or public embarrassment.

- Jo Paoletti

Spiral Notebook

Recommended by Jo Paoletti