Substacks recommended by Michael Klein

Recommended by Michael Klein

Writings at the intersection of music, literature, and politics

More people should know about this guy, because along with people like Adam Guettel, Ricky Ian Gordon, Sufjan Stevens, and Jane Siberry-- he is writing the most intimate and lusciously complex music in Amerika.

- Michael Klein

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

By Lucian K. Truscott IV

I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.

Proof

By Seth Abramson

Know Better.

The Signorile Report

By Michelangelo Signorile

Exposing far-right extremism and corporate media complicity. News, politics, analysis, interviews by journalist & SiriusXM radio host Michelangelo Signorile.

Book Post

By Ann Kjellberg

Bite-sized book reviews by distinguished and engaging writers, direct to readers‘ in boxes. Editor Ann Kjellberg is a multi-decade veteran of The New York Review of Books and founder of the literary magazine LIttle Star

I don't know how Ann Kjellberg gets such extraordinary writers (like Joy Williams, for instance) to write for this terrific blog, but she does-- and it's a fantastic place to find what to read next.

- Michael Klein

Peter Trachtenberg: Not Dark Yet

Writing about literature, music, politics, ethics, history, and the end of the world. In no particular order.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump

By Mary L Trump

In which we come together to save American democracy, or at least have fun while trying.

I know ... I know ... ANYBODY Trump?!?!? But, in the irony of ironies of political and civil life in these past disastrous years of living in an even getting worse dictatorship (and if you don't think book banning is burn burning, think again), Mary Trump is a brilliant thinker and writer and takes out her revenge in strokes that are measured, objective and, a lot of times, hysterically funny. The serendipity of having a thinking Trump in the world is still to be decided.

- Michael Klein

No Failure, Only Practice

By Matt Bell

Fiction writing exercises, craft essays, and reading recommendations from Matt Bell, author of APPLESEED and REFUSE TO BE DONE. Publishes monthly.

Question Everything with Peter Catapano

Notes, insights and conversations on writing, music, art, philosophy and creativity from the founding editor of The New York Times philosophy series The Stone.

Rebounding

Recommended by Michael Klein