Substacks recommended by Jill

Recommended by Jill

A sack of stubs, a stub sack, a stack of subs, a substack

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.

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

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

FORD KNOWS

By Mr. Troy Ford

From Award-disdaining LGBTQ+ Author, Mystic & Kook, Mr. Troy Ford | Essays, Stories & Newsy Tidbits for lovers of reading, writing, & sundry curiosities - basically, a fruit basket with fur, every Friday

Washed Memoir in Real Time

By Miter

Writing music and writing about writing music.

100 Stories

By Adam Nathan

100 Stories. One a month till 2032.

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

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.

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

Juvenescence

By Leah McLaren

A newsletter about curiosity, writing, the creative unconscious and the tragicomic struggle to live a fully examined life.

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.

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

By Miller’s Book Review 📚

Classics, Memoir, History, More

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

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.

Arts & Letters Daily

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

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

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 the latest news and musings on 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

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?