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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

Writing about a collection of songs, loosely organized around a theme. Frequency is about twice a week. Until I retire. Then watch out.

crime fiction and associated nonsense

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Texan in LA, author, musician, world-traveler, maltipoo mom.

Jeff Tweedy shares songs, advice, general musings, and whatnot...

JoeBlogs is where I write about sports, memory, joy, and the strange, happy ways they all connect.

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Red Sox analysis, opinion, whimsy

Deep, critical reviews of literary fiction and non-fiction. Averse to trends, interested in honesty, willing to go beyond the book.

Motherhood: the most wonderful terrible job in the world.

Field Notes of a Serial Enthusiast

Researcher to Elmore Leonard for 32.5 years, I’m sharing exclusive material, insights, and corrections during his Centennial—plus a memoir-in-progress, I’d Kill to Have Your Job.

The past, present and future comics work of writer Brian K. Vaughan & artist Niko Henrichon

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, art, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

My personal Substack

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

* Upcoming performances * Tales of writing life * Thinly-veiled gossip about my betters * Incriminating true stories * Comics, sex and magic * Art I think you should know about * Fear of success * Cats * Obsessive collecting * Good work I will never fini

An editor's weekly newsletter about books and other things

the junk shop of history

what I read, how I read, and books that matter

fiction craft, publishing demystification, weird books, other things

Bob Dylan concerts throughout history

A weekly newsletter for fans and friends of writer Brian Keene.

All Things Scott Snyder: In & On My Own Words

Dispatches from the author of The Idiot

Parker Molloy’s award-winning media criticism, culture, and politics newsletter.

A Journal of People and Environment in the Southwest

Excuse me, could I use your pen?

Maine is lots of things. This is the other side of it.

My personal Substack

Music • Books • Music Books

Where ancestral meets the modern imagination. Mythology, storytelling, and creative inspiration brought to you by the host of KnotWork Myth & Storytelling.

Better Late Than Ever

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

Hello. You've reached Time & Temperature. I can't properly tell you either, but I promise to tell you everything else!

Updates from the road and the studio, thoughts about art, music and laypeople philosophy.

Kelly Willis's Substack

Will Leitch's weekly free newsletter with an original essay, and links to everything he writes.

News and updates about my novel and comic book-writing work, plus reading recommendations!

My personal Substack

An occasional newsletter for customers of Vortex Books & Comics.

A view of baseball history from historian, author, and SABR member Paul White.

Penny Lane is My Real Name is a newsletter about making art and making a living in documentary film.

I read a short story (almost) every day. An experiment in keeping track of what I read, with notes and thoughts.

Reporting and commentary on civil liberties and the criminal justice system. Plus other stuff.

The Magpie is a collection of shiny objects about writing, diaries, creativity, hopes, and obsessions.