A newsletter about visions, transformation, and writing. Currently, I'm focused on writing a serialized memoir about my former life as an Evangelical.

An odd array of poems, stories, essays, and other verbal peculiarities penned by Tom Vandel.

For the timid and brave, the published and unpublished, honest in-the-weeds missives from the writing trenches.

My personal Substack

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

A creative journal with dirt in the corners.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Novelist and journalist, often called a Southern writer. My writing is funny, smart, and sometimes quite moving.

A letter to America from a van--with occasional diversions to books, cats, food, and nature.

To help you tell your best story, a novelist, editor, and poet explores our evolved, biological predisposition toward storytelling