Culture Pop: Sound & Screen

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight.

For those looking for thoughtful writing on great music.

Cutting through the overwhelming content clutter. Curating the best content from around the internet (Tuesdays), plus in-depth movie and streaming recs (Fridays) so you never have to waste time doom-scrolling again!

Jazz Music; Classical Music; Do the Math

Hearing, viewing, reading -- music, movies, books

Popular Music, Present and Past

Thoughts on nearly vanished sounds, spirits, ideas.

Riffs on music and culture, improvised and otherwise, from critic Nate Chinen

Where good movies are always news! Homebase for The Last Thing I Saw Podcast. Conversations about movies with leading critics and filmmakers. New releases, old favorites, festival highlights, streaming recs.

An occasional dispatch by me, Kenneth R. Rosen, an infracaninophile in disparate places.

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

Robert Christgau's weekly newsletter. Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.

Deeper into movies (and a little TV). Essays, reviews, conversation. Past and present. From the editors of The Dissolve.

On crime fiction and true crime, current and long-ago releases, stuff I'm working on, and other related things.