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Recommended by Josephine Vraca

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Blocked and Reported

By Jesse Singal

A Podcast About Internet Controversies

Because sometimes you need to feel some fun outrage.

- Josephine Vraca

Gateway Elderwomen

By Jody Day

Transforming elderhood without motherhood.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

You need this.

- Josephine Vraca

Italicus: a writer's life in Italy

By Cheryl A. Ossola

On life in an Italian hill town, language, travel, writing, and books

Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

"Just to spite the world, don’t cry! Just to spite the world, only laugh, only laugh!" - Sholom Aleichem. Amen, Brother.

Buona Domenica

By Domenica Marchetti

A different look at Italian food and travel. Recipes and inspiration delivered every Sunday.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

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

Joy and grief beautifully read by Chloe

- Josephine Vraca

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

The Bluestocking

By Helen Lewis

I read the internet, so you don’t have to.

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.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

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.

Luke Burgis Newsletter

Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.

The Week in Italy

By Jamie Mackay

A regular news digest of politics, economics, art and culture

Catch & Release

By Ben Wakeman

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

Search Engine with PJ Vogt

Welcome to Search Engine, a newsletter for a podcast that tries to answer every question. No question too big, no question too small.

Peak Notions with Laura Kennedy

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

BROADview

By Lisa Selin Davis

A newsletter about the gender culture wars, & the history, science, psychology & politics of gender nonconformity—misunderstood by the Right and Left. Where do our ideas of normal for boys and girls come from? Speaking the unspeakable. Pro-complexity.

Ruthtalksfood Newsletter

By Ruth Stroud

Talking about food leads to talking about everything: recipes, family stories, culinary history, healthy eating tips, and holiday tales. I write about it all, plus some truly delicious Jewish treats like rugelach and hamantaschen. Don't miss it!

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

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.

Culinary Repertoire

By Lisa McLean

A place where Marcella Hazan’s teachings and global spice traditions come together through stories, recipes, and the science of good food, one repertoire for many kitchens.

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.

Start from the beginning and work your way through Eleanor's life. This is writing.

- Josephine Vraca

Simply Divina- My Tiny Tuscan Kitchen

By Judy Witts Francini

An American Cook in Tuscany. Becoming more Italian, one recipe at a time. Pull up a chair and join me at my Kitchen Table, the heart of the home.

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Cooking with MARCELLA

By Lisa McLean

Cooking with Marcella is a personal journey through all of Marcella Hazan’s cookbooks, exploring her timeless recipes and their roots in the Mediterranean diet with storytelling, practical cooking insights, and a deep love for authentic Italian cuisine.

Weeknights in Italy

By Lolly

soffritto, sauce, and stories from a joyful immigrant, American writer + mamma living in N Italy since 2010

The Dialectic

By Jules

A magazine for the culturally curious, exploring music, art, literature, film, design and current affairs.

Great insight into the music and films I've forgotten or never knew.

- Josephine Vraca

The Sum of Me

By Rebecca Whitney

What I write when I should be writing fiction: mid-life (and beyond), mother to adults, writer's process, some old stuff, some daft stuff

Bitter & Sweet

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