Subtraction

All about fiction and creative non-fiction: writing it, reading it, teaching it and occasionally hating it

I've moved this publication to a new platform called Ghost. Nervous Laughter now lives there.

Opening the future by understanding the past.

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

A weekly newsletter of observations, field notes, ruminations and recommendations from writer Maggie MacKellar.

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

Writing + cartoons I'm interested ways to think that help creatives. Also: it's short.

Tips from the world's best note takers

A seasonal online readers and writers festival. A book exchange. A lively Reddit. Plus smart takes on books and culture. Straight from Bri's desk in Sydney to your inbox each Wednesday at 5pm.

A monthly collage essay on the creative lives & works of (mostly) dead women

Writing, books, the creative life - all the stuff that makes my brain buzz

A newsletter for the terminally curious: Science, history, language, weirdness, with 0% contemporary politics, because oh my god sometimes you need a break.