Books I Love

Let's talk more about the power of place.

Unmitigated gushing about (mostly) contemporary fiction. Sometimes memoir. Sometimes nonfiction. Preference for scrappy narrators.

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Reading, recommending and celebrating women in literature.

The life a novelist/mother in Los Angeles.

A few pennies for my thoughts.

A newsletter on all things writing where Kathryn Mockler writes about the writing process & other troubles & invites guests to share their work.

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

Foraged colour, found pigments and natural markings from Jason Logan the author of Make Ink.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight.

Thoughts on life, food and the flavours in between

Patrick Somerville writes about TV, screenwriting, jetpacks, movies, and being destroyed by one's own children, but slow.

On crime fiction and true crime, current and long-ago releases, stuff I'm working on, and other related things.