American Orphan

Reporting on the absurd world of beauty culture. / “The newsletter the beauty industry fears.” - the Herald.

Occasional musings and writings about art by Grace Byron. Cover Image: Greer Lankton

Craft essays and criticism on writing, books, and fat liberation from the author of Housemates, Fat Swim, and The Third Rainbow Girl.

A Black feminist guide to history, science, and culture.

Support for writers who want to build a sustainable, energetically aligned creative practice in the middle of real life.

A newsletter about experimentation, connection, and how to find more creativity in daily life.

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An occasional newsletter on writing, revision, and reading. Filled with many little happies (and sads, okay) and recommendations along the way.

If culture is a reflection of society's soul, then this substack is an exorcism.

Monthly commentary on history, climate change, political tom-foolery, literature, and the media from the author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (out January 14th, 2025 on Pantheon).

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jo shares her passions with you, the reader, in case you should also become passionate about those passions.

Stories from journalist, Christine Kenneally, about science, history, tech, power, mystery and the world of “Ghosts of the Orphanage”.

"I'm writing with a good deal of ease and fluidity. One must distrust that."

Emi Nietfeld, former software engineer turned writer, dissects her successes, failures, and shenanigans for your learning and entertainment.

Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. My writing seeks to correct this.

From the manosphere to the atmosphere.

Strategic child and family policy intelligence. Separating signal from noise.

Sunday Reads is about navigating ambition, womanhood, and a sustaining a creative life. Minimalist intentions, but maximalist reality.

Writing, books, art. Kinship, broadly construed. Advocate for acknowledging troubled family histories honestly, open-heartedly, and with imagination.

Dispatches from a novel-writing, book-guzzling, anxiety-riddled, overly-sincere, melancholic-optimist

Irregularly timed dispatches from my travels in the world of adoption

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