Life Litter | Jill

Recommended by Jill

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

Normal Island News

By Laura K

The UK's second most reliable news source after Gbeebies. Parody/satire x

Haver & Sparrow

By Charlene Storey

Weekly letters about slow, creative living from my island home in Shetland. Sharing everyday magic and memories, photographing the little moments & forever chasing the light.

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

Washed Memoir in Real Time

By Miter

Writing music and writing about writing music.

Numb at the Lodge

By Sam Kriss

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

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

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

Shenanigans and Stuff

By Katy Wheatley

Things I think about and have nowhere else to put

I really love Katy’s writing, on boats, canals, walks through unexpected corners of London; on art and history and how the past layers up into the city we see. Highly recommend.

- Jill

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.

Three Things Weekly

By Raphy

Co-Create's weekly edit where we share Three Things to inspire your creativity.

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

By Miller’s Book Review 📚

Remarkable Reading

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

Tell Their Stories

By Hannah Ray

Writer and editor Hannah Ray shares regular posts on storytelling, communities and the internet. Subscribe for Tell Their Stories posts—a toolkit to community-first storytelling, as well as her free newsletter Shelf Life 🍣.

Dispatches

By Kenneth Mills

... images and essays, journeys near and far

Beautiful artwork, and words to match

- Jill

Fog Chaser

By Matt

A new original instrumental song every month from a Pacific Northwest-based musician and composer, along with visuals, poetry, and more.

GOOD INTERNET

By René Walter

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

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

- Jill

Oxford Sour

By Christopher Gage

Politics. Culture. Sanity.

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

- Jill

The Sophist

Wisdom for idiots

Letters from Suzanne

By Suzanne Moore

The whole shebang. Writings, personal and political .

Deerwalker

By Jo

Novice crone and biophile dreaming my next adventure. Earth-love, hedgewitchery, plants, coffee and dogs. Mapping a new world with a foot in the Otherworld.

No vanilla spirituality here, Jo writes honestly and with real feeling.

- Jill

The Lunar Dispatch

By Will Dowd

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

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

The Bluestocking

By Helen Lewis

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

A high point of my week.

- Jill

Wu Fei's Music Daily

By Wu Fei 吴非

An original piece of music every weekday from composer and guzheng performer / pianist / vocalist Wu Fei. Official website www.wufeimusic.com

The TueNight Social

By TueNight

A grab-bag of Gen-X goodies: midlife stories, pop culture, and a community for grown-ass women

A gold mine of interesting nuggets and fun rabbit holes to wander down.

- Jill

HONEY STAY SUPER

By Kimberly Harrington

A newsletter about creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, and after publishing. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, cry, laugh, and feel. Read me, won’t you?

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you