Substacks recommended by Jill

Recommended by Jill

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

My personal Substack. If you have enjoyed my books or articles you will find stuff here which interests you. Recent posts include a lecture on Eliot given at Little Gidding, and memories of Iris Murdoch.

Rats from Rocks

By Mills Baker

A way outback take house operated by Mills Baker, David Cole, and Omar Khalid.

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

Kiddy Litter

By Lois Lowry

Just day-to-day musings from someone whose life has been devoted to words and kids in combination

The Bluestocking

By Helen Lewis

I read the internet, so you don’t have to.

A high point of my week.

- Jill

The Booker Prizes

Sign up to the Booker Prizes newsletter, where you can discover our long reads, book recommendations, exclusive interviews and much more, from the world's greatest writers of fiction.

Oxford Sour

By Christopher Gage

High Culture for Lowbrows

Ascerbic, smart and funny as hell. Quite simply: brilliant.

- Jill

One Word

By Taegan MacLean

Every word is a universe. Let's explore them together.

You'll never think as much about a single word as Teagan does - and, the way he writes it, each word contains multitudes.

- Jill

The Sophist

Wisdom for idiots, the love of fools, and houses worth lusting over.

Dear Reader, I'm lost

By Rebecca Holden

Letters from a writer navigating the world with absolutely no sense of direction.

Dear Reader, I'm Lost is equal parts poignant and amusing, always beautifully written and will leave you feeling like the world is a marginally more cheerful place because Rebecca is in it. 10/10

- Jill

Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

Exploring writing, travel, and literature.

One of the few must-reads in my inbox. Charles writes with fluency and clarity on pretty much any topic, if precedent serves.

- Jill

zensounds

By Stephan Kunze

newsletter for ambient and experimental music

Ford Knows Books

By Mr. Troy Ford

Essays, stories & curiosities | Home of the novel "Lamb" - "The Books We ❤️ Club" - and "The Road to Published" - the choose-your-own-adventure approach to writing and publishing books

Longview

Longview is for the curious and open minded. We tell deeply-reported, carefully-crafted stories about the most pressing and interesting stories in our world.

Anyone who helped put together The Witch Trials is A-OK in my book. A big yes please to long form and quality.

- Jill

Dressing Like a Kangaroo

By Roo

Be prepared for mildly cold weather, midnight scuffles with raccoons, and dangerously close calls with the comforts of home.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Chloe's writing is raw, honest and consistently beautiful. A treat every week.

- Jill

The Humanities Library

Dusting off old books in search of new ideas to live by

Washed Memoir in Real Time

By Miter

Writing music and writing about writing music.

Badreads

By Lauren Hough

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

Fog Chaser

I write a new instrumental song every month and send it to you before anywhere else—join 7,900+ people turning to this music for focus, healing, and calm.

ŽIŽEK GOADS AND PRODS

By Slavoj Žižek

Free from all forms of censorship that pervade our media, Žižek evokes and provokes philosophy, politics, culture, and so on.

Arts & Letters Daily

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Londonist: Time Machine

A geeky, cheeky, thrice-weekly digest of London's history.

Letters from Suzanne

By Suzanne Moore

The whole shebang. Writings, personal and political .

THE LUNAR DISPATCH

By Will Dowd

Arriving on the night of the full moon, this monthly newsletter brings you the latest news and musings on our nearest celestial neighbor.

Dispatches

By Kenneth Mills

... images and essays, journeys near and far

Beautiful artwork, and words to match

- Jill

Invisible Women

By Caroline Criado Perez

Keeping up with the gender data gap (and whatever else takes my fancy).

Want to read about how ill-designed the world is for women? Prepare to be outraged.

- Jill

100 Stories by Adam Nathan

In February 2024 I committed to writing one story a month for a hundred months. This is the journey to May 2032. Join me Sunday mornings at 9:00AM for the stories, the backstories, and audio.

What Comes Next?

By Abigail Thomas

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

GOOD INTERNET

By René Walter

A magazine about human machine relations, AI and tech, entertainment, arts and culture, the psychology of social media, and everything else too.

Enjoy Rene’s all-things-weird Internet/AI round-up so much. Amusing, inspiring, insightful. 10/10

- Jill

Life at the Bottom of the Canyon

By Kate Mapother

Thoughts, free-writes, a poem or two, an essay here and there, upcoming book chapter previews. Live, from my little adobe at the bottom of the canyon.

vessels

By Julia Bedell

your passage back to shore

Juvenescence with Leah McLaren

A newsletter by the journalist and author Leah McLaren. Weekly essays on life, love, the creative unconscious and the tragicomedy of being alive -- plus regular video interviews with writers.

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

By Miller’s Book Review 📚

Celebrating All Things Literary

Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out

eu·pho·ri·a (yū-fōr'ē-ă), 1. A feeling of well-being. 2. The pleasure state induced by a drug or substance of abuse.

HONEY STAY SUPER

By Kimberly Harrington

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, after publishing, and after moving 11,000 times. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel. Sorry.

i hate these people

By daisy cashin

Figuring out the universe through some good old loathing and resentment. These are ill-tempered and ill-remembered love bits from the Shitstorm.

haver & sparrow

By Charlene Storey

Letters from my island home in Shetland: creativity, photography, and slow-ish living with a punk rock heart. Forever obsessed with storytelling and capturing the life's littlest joys in words, photos & art. And dogs. There are also dogs.

Charlene writes with beauty, simplicity and clarity. Reading Haver & Sparrow is like being washed in clean salt air, straight from the Shetlands. A joy.

- Jill