notes on bewilderment

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

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

NibLit is a small bite of literary inspiration. It is a short-form newsletter that interviews creative writers and artists, who are asked the same three questions about why and how they make their work.

We do what we can. Sometimes that's something.

My personal Substack

144-word essays, book stuff, writing stuff, etc.

Home of The Unspeakeasy Podcast (formerly known as The Unspeakable), occasional livestreams, and new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.

Open your world with poetry

The reader is my notebook

Books, art, music, movies

Media, culture, journalism, murder, and the occasional baking of actual pie

I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.

Essays about artists and other adults I admire. But also poems, recommendations, and serializing a memoir I'm writing called "Happiness Ruined Everything," chapters of which I'll post probably once a week. Oh, and I don't believe in trigger warnings.

Nominated for Best American Essay and Pushcart Prize. Proudly niche since 2006 in posts of 2 minutes or less. A Substack Bestseller in Literature. Subscribe FREE as long as Substack allows. No cost. No risk. No obligation.

making sense of it

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences

Hybrid essays including a mix of prose poetry and short fiction highlighting the seriocomic musings of an aging Humanist, whose years of publishing books of prose poems, essays, and fiction haven't made him as wise as he should be.

Ideas and insights about how to write with power and originality—without the angst. See what happens when you ignite your imaginative intelligence!

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

A Natural Drift is where I linger over stories about nature and fly fishing, recovery, art, family, teaching, and writing: where I might ponder about how we express the human experience.

Because it's too hot to think in a tank. Unusual cultural musings by an award winning author and sometimes professor of history and of poetry. Ideas and the creative life. Books, art, tv, science, atheism, poetry, doubt etc.

A space for chat about the nature of creativity, the creative process & the perks & pitfalls of creating with an ADHD brain. Support and inspiration for writers and other artists

My personal Substack

Ann Telnaes- Artist, visual storyteller, creator of "Open Windows"

Notes from outside the consternation machine

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Words on the hither and thither, not necessarily in that order.

Home Is Where We Start, Fig Tree, Penguin.

An impromptu and experimental effort toward joining individual digits (i.e., friends, readers) with soft tissue (reflections, urgencies, doubts, loves).

Petite, ma grand-mère m’appelait "brave bête" quand je lui sautais au cou. Aujourd’hui, j’ausculte la bête en moi, la brave aussi. Fragments, souvenirs, vertiges. Un journal d’ombres et de feux, de ce qui résiste et s’efface.

Art, meditations, herbal remedies and spiritual deliberations for the collective heart.