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Recommended by Jeffrey Streeter

Peak Notions with Laura Kennedy

Peak Notions is the ideologically exhausted person’s guide to untangling ideas, identity, and the chaos we live in

Elegant, thoughtful essays.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Hmm That's Interesting

By Clara

Culture thoughts of/for/by the Chronically Online, from that girl you may have seen on Instagram or TikTok (alas). Essays, pop culture, interviews, and literature.

Superbly written, forensically incisive

- Jeffrey Streeter

Be Less Careful

By Nancy Reddy

sustaining creative work in a busy life, midlife reinvention, and figuring out how to be happier at home

Mary Tabor "Only connect ..."

By <Mary L. Tabor>

The arts, books, movies, a course: Write it!, The Writing Life, (Re)Making Love: a memoir (fully up now), Who by Fire: a novel, Cooking With Mary, Watercolors and story in Letters to My Granddaughter.

A home for wonderful writing and erudite discussion

- Jeffrey Streeter

Writer, interrupted

By Mary Roblyn

Life happens. We get interrupted. When my husband died, grief opened my heart. Writing, like grieving, is an act of love. I got interrupted, but I didn't give up. Join me! A Substack Featured Publication.

This is writing which has soul, depth and quiet passion.

- Jeffrey Streeter

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

Always so full of great insights

- Jeffrey Streeter

JAPAN ORDINARY -photos-

By Japan Ordinary

I photograph ordinary moments in Japan. Streets, light, silence, and small details of everyday life. Nothing special — and that is exactly what I want to share.

The Austen Connection

By Plain Jane

How Jane Austen's stories connect to us today, and connect us to each other.

Heart Leap

By Suzy Walker

Building a simple, happy, creative life that makes your heart leap. Join our Heart Leap writing community

This is a place of insightful writing and inclusive inspiration.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Versailles Century

By David Gemeinhardt

The court of Versailles and French high society through the words of those who were there between 1682 and 1789.

Although the people who feature here were at the centre of European politics in their time, reading the Versailles Century is like entering a haven of civility and good writing.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Catalectic

By Alicia Kenworthy

Missives at the intersection of comedy, autofiction and literary critique. Delivered to your inbox twice monthly by an overcaffeinated and under assured millennial in Washington, DC.

Rafa Martin’s Notes

Crossing Through the Looking-Glass

Life Litter

By Jill

No brand, no message. What’s left

I love Jill's writing style, so fresh and immediate.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Goatfury Writes

By Andrew Smith

I want to give you something interesting to think about every single day.

Energising, educational and excitingly eclectic.

- Jeffrey Streeter

[B]OLD AGE with Debbie Weil

Sharing what it's really like to get old, from the blessings to the bullshit.

This really is BOLD writing and a place of energy and wit.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Anne of Green Places

By Anne Thomas

I write my way through the nooks and crannies of the natural+human world - recently left the French Alps to be an ecology professor in Utah. Place, history, ecology, art.

Anne's Substack is a delight. I learn a lot from her, and I just love the photos she takes.

- Jeffrey Streeter

What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

#21 in Parenting: Asking and attempting to answer various flavours of this question as I rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of perimenopausal midlife from home in Glasgow, Scotland

Spark

By Elizabeth Marro

Come for the book recs, essays, nosy questions, awkward confessions. Stay for the conversation.

Notes from Sardinia

By F ox

Musings of a poet-farmer's wife from the Blue Zone of Sardinia - tales of life in the Sardinian countryside with bits of memoir and reflections on aging, health, self-care.

Such a cool place!

- Jeffrey Streeter

The Bohemian

By Fiona (@F_ox)

The curious musings of an incurable optimist on life and art with snippets of memoir - a celebration of inspiring women, women who think, write, and create, of aging with grace, of beautiful views, delightful things, and creativity. Welcome!

This is a thoughtful, grounded, creative and welcoming space to be in

- Jeffrey Streeter

Shards of Thoughts

By Aleksandra Aubay

A collection of short — and not-so-short — essays on reading books, admiring classic literature, and living a cozy life amidst existential chaos

Loud Soft Black Girl Substack

By ARN

My personal Substack

Alicia's flair and wit make reading about the dry machinations of American politics interesting and even fun. That's quite an achievement. She's my go-to source for the inside story.

- Jeffrey Streeter

David Roberts || Sparks From Culture

Weekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.

Sane, wise, just the kind of writing you want to read, right here on Substack.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Beyond the Bookshelf

By Matthew Long

After navigating oceans for 24 years in the Navy, I now chart courses through literature and life. Here we explore beyond the bookshelf to discover how the written word shapes who we are and who we're becoming.

Beyond the Bookshelf is a wonderful community of readers interested in exploring how reading experiences resonate with and impact their lives. Matthew's reading and comments on individual books and authors make this a stimulating Substack!

- Jeffrey Streeter

Sparkle on Substack

By Claire Venus ✨

Master Substack, write, build your DREAM business with joy! Global Top 10 Publication. Twice monthly space holding (co-working, workshops, teaching). Weekly chats, podcasts. A bespoke membership to help you stay creative and grow on Substack! 💫

Full of great advice for newer Substackers and Clare has created a real warmth in her community. If you want to sparkle on Substack, where else would you go?

- Jeffrey Streeter

Dandelion Seeds: Illustrated Essays

By Candace Rose Rardon

Once a week, I share a short illustrated essay, hand-painted and hand-lettered, from my desk to yours. Like wishing on a dandelion, I hope it’ll bring a moment of beauty and wonder to your day.

Beautifully illustrated, compellingly narrated stories

- Jeffrey Streeter

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

By Terry Freedman

Reflections on literature * Musings on everyday life * Book reviews * Experiments in creative nonfiction writing * Humour

The Sadbook Collections

By Sara Barkat

the (mostly) daily comic strip of a stick-figure human

From Life with Victoria Olsen

Excerpts and writing guidance from my family memoir about my father Earle Olsen's art career, especially in 1950s New York City. Plus other thoughts and tips on life, writing, life-writing, and the writing life....

Full of fascinating memoir and glimpses into the art world

- Jeffrey Streeter

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

Lost in the Archives brings something unique I can't get (can't find) anywhere else on Substack. The deft way Ann handles her material and the novel perspectives that she opens up from her time in the archives are very precious.

- Jeffrey Streeter

June's Writing

By June Girvin

Life, books and reading, nature, knitting, what's happening in the garden, a bit of memoir, general chat. Wide-ranging ruminations. I usually post at the weekend.

Beautifully written essays

- Jeffrey Streeter

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Our wonderful Substack prose poet on all mortal and ornithological things. Sheer delight. Binoculars not required.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Maybe Baby

By Haley Nahman

Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both.

The Matterhorn: truth in fiction

By Kathleen Clare Waller

Writing on the Margins of Fiction and Life

Erudite, fascinating and incredibly rich in its range

- Jeffrey Streeter

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

A series of brilliant explorations on the topic of growing older.

- Jeffrey Streeter

The Ariadne Archive

By Freya Rohn

Finding the threads that lead out of the labyrinth.

Freya shines plenty of northern light into the labyrinth of human experience, with a fine poetic lens. Every post is a treasure.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Letters from a Muslim Woman

By Noha Beshir

Dispatches from one woman's life as a Western Muslim told through the lens of mental health, faith, and the multi-generational immigrant experience.

I enjoy the different perspective that Noha brings to her writing, which is just as good as the excellent title she has chosen!

- Jeffrey Streeter

Snaps

By Deirdre Lewis

sketches, flash fiction, musings and observations

Deirdre's writing dazzles. Every piece from her refracts another aspect of the world's beauty.

- Jeffrey Streeter

STORIES, AFTER EIGHT

By Ben Woestenburg ...STORIES

Read my novellas, & novelettes for FREE; or, Up-Grade and read my serial novels; or listen as I read Classic poetry to you. Sign up to have it delivered to your in-box. Grab a MEMBERSHIP and join me in THE PORTAL CLUB, for readings, chats, and videos.

Ben's a great storyteller!

- Jeffrey Streeter

Animated

By Jon

Stories behind how your favourite cartoons came to life — and the ones you might have missed.

A place to find those cartoons you loved as a child, beautifuly described

- Jeffrey Streeter

Amazement Seeker by Rona Maynard

Celebrating discovery in art, writing and the moment as it flies

Rona writes beautifully, with so much grace and insight.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing

I write about almost everything, from personal essay and memoir to fiction to travel essays to politics to book reviews to thoughts on literature to novels and stories and much more.

Writes with style and from the heart

- Jeffrey Streeter

A hill and I

By Susie Mawhinney

Field conversations and blurry photography from a hill in SW France, wrapped in self sufficient chaos, memoir obscurities and armfuls of love!

Beautiful writing and stunning photography.

- Jeffrey Streeter

The Wandering Writer

By Michelle Richmond

Essays on wandering, notes on writing at home and abroad from New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond

The Hallelujah Book & Hope Letter

By Tara Penry

Bookish enchantment for grown-ups: a literature professor’s notes on hope.

Tara is one of the most thoughtful, inspiring, and collegiate people I've come across on Substack, as well as being a great reader and a wonderful writer.

- Jeffrey Streeter

DADA issues

By Roman Muradov

Comics, animations, essays, and other things from Roman Muradov, artist/author of moderate renown. Half free, half paywalled.

Odd, irreverent and very, very funny.

- Jeffrey Streeter

Ford Knows Books

By Mr. Troy Ford

Essays, stories & curiosities | Home of the novel "Lamb" - "The Books We ❤️ Club" - and "The Road to Published" - the choose-your-own-adventure approach to writing and publishing books

Great writing, always worth reading. One of my favourite stacks.

- Jeffrey Streeter

The Literary Obsessive

By Eleanor Anstruther

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

Beautiful Things: The Diary of A Lady Traveler

By Beautiful Things: The Diary of a Lady Traveler

A newsletter for those who love travel, books, history, and beautiful things. I write about the inspiring history of women travel writers, and share my own travels - with a passion for sharing the stories of the people and places I meet along the way.

Just a glance at jodi's website will tell you that this is indeed a place of beautiful things

- Jeffrey Streeter

Tokyo Calling

By Gianni Simone

About travel, walking, urban exploration, and all things Japanese, of course. Over 2,000 subscribers and followers.

Every time I go to Gianni's Substack learn something new about Japan! If you want to get some great insights into the country, this the place for you.

- Jeffrey Streeter