Finding and listening to records.

Music • Books • Music Books

A newsletter about Steely Dan, featuring original interviews, oral histories, audio stories, themed mixtapes, and more transmissions from the Daniverse

Musician and writer Joe Pernice shares recordings and some words about making them.

A sporadic journal about song-making and story-writing

The reader is my notebook

Weekly music playlists by curators. "Everyone understands the importance of skirting the algorithm, but few know how to accomplish it. Herb Sundays is beautiful in both simplicity and execution" - Philip Sherburne

Music, books, movies, work, football, TV and so on.

Bestselling novelist and bookstore owner Emma Straub has a lot to say, and this is where to read it.

music. culture. author Danyel Smith writes, recalls, recommends, and overshares.

The weekly comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling - Two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Herblock Prize, RFK Journalism Award, Berryman Award, NCS Awards, #1 Dad Mug Owner, Top 76 Theme Park Influencer, Olympic Hopeful

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

Home of Truth

Definitely not criticism, not quite philosophy, regrettably kinda writing advice…rants? Right, yeah, that's the word - rants.

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Popular Music, Present and Past

A Paris-based journalist, I set out to write about midlife dating here but then sold a book on the Pelicot rape trial. I now spend my time thinking about things like rape culture and the need for men to step up and tackle patriarchy.

Black music, black culture and America.

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

Slicing politics open to peer inside its disturbing innards and determine how it all works

“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.

Snapshots about writers and writing, books and reading them, culture in general and the retail job that stifles it all.

From the Desk of Mac Barnett

Milkfed Criminal Masterminds Inc. is the production company of television and comic book writers Kelly Sue DeConnick & Matt Fraction.