Poor Man's Feast | Elissa Altman

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Instead of living fixed I'm learning to live well. Every Sunday, short, snack-sized chapters from my memoir Unfixed. Every Thursday, resources and opportunities to share for anyone “living unfixed” looking for solidarity, advocacy and hope.

Shelby Lynne - Dirt and Fiction

By Shelby L Moorer

My life as an artist.

Because everything that Shelby Lynne writes is stunning.

- Elissa Altman

Sixburnersue

By Susie Middleton

Join author Susie Middleton in the pursuit of serenity, beauty, and joy in the garden and the kitchen on Martha's Vineyard.

Stunning writing about the confluence of place, nurturing, sobriety, and authenticity.

- Elissa Altman

Scéal

By Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Story

SubMakk

By Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

xoxoDorie Newsletter

By Dorie Greenspan

A newsletter for all of us who are crazy about food + curious about the world

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Wonderful writing, craft-talk, and prompts from a poet and memoirist who changed all of our lives (including Obama's) with Good Bones. Beautiful posts that she's generous enough to share with us.

- Elissa Altman

On the Kitchen Porch

By Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Weekly banter from my kitchen porch: food, wine, people, places, Maine, the Mediterranean, the whole wide world.

Alice on Sunday

By Alice Elliott Dark

A writing life.

Stunning writing from award winning novelist. A breath of fresh air.

- Elissa Altman

Juvenescence

By Leah McLaren

A newsletter about curiosity, writing, art, the creative unconscious and the joyous tragicomic struggle to live a fully examined life.

Extraordinary, thoughtful writing about making art, storytelling, and permission.

- Elissa Altman

Shifting the Food Narrative

By John Birdsall

Food stories of complex identity, not comforting clichés.

Beyond

By Jane Ratcliffe

Intimate conversations with today's greatest heart-centered minds. Get insightful, exclusive interviews conducted by veteran interviewer and author Jane Ratcliffe.

Beautiful, thoughtful writing and conversation about art-making and the creative life.

- Elissa Altman

EDIBLE LIVING by Sarah Copeland

Unfussy and delicious recipes, travelogues, and strategies from the award-winning author and food editor Sarah Copeland.

Substack Reads

Your guide to great writing happening on Substack, plus the home of “The Active Voice,” a podcast by Hamish McKenzie.

Buona Domenica

By Domenica Marchetti

A lifetime of Italian cooking. Recipes and inspiration delivered every Sunday.

Out of It

By Mary Gaitskill

Notes from outside the consternation machine

To Vegetables, With Love

By Hetty Lui McKinnon

A vegetable life less ordinary, with Hetty Lui McKinnon

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

This is Precious

By Sarah Wilson

Bold words for living in an uncertain world....from author Sarah Wilson

Allison Moorer: The Autotelic

By Allison Moorer/The Autotelic

The Autotelic is where I put it all – writing, singing, anything I dream up — to chronicle and share about this wild, beautiful, and imperfect journey.

Incredible wisdom from multi-talented, polymathic memoirist/singer/songwriter. Deeply generous and kind writing that I look forward to all the time, and often go back and re-read.

- Elissa Altman

Love Story

By Laura McKowen

Your life is a love story, it’s just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing.

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Stunning words, music, humanity from the gift that is Patti Smith. ❤️

- Elissa Altman

DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community.

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

BRILLIANT writing from a master --- Heartily recommended.

- Elissa Altman

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Modern Loss

Candid conversation and community on the long arc of loss and resilience. Beginners welcome. Subscribe now for exclusive content.

Richard Shindell: Words and Music

By Richard Shindell on Substack

Songs, poems, sentences, the odd paragraph.

Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

This is the home of two newsletters by Cheryl Strayed. Paid subscribers receive Cheryl's Dear Sugar Letter once a month (both audio & written), and her regular newsletter several times a year. Free subscribers get her regular newsletter only. Thanks!

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

Her writing and podcasts are my lifesavers, my grounding when I'm ungrounded. Beautiful work on what it means to be here now in all our idiosyncratic humanity. A must-read.

- Elissa Altman

Vittles

Vittles is an online magazine based in the UK and India, publishing new food and culture writing.

The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Grace for fuck-ups. Prayer for the impious. A space for spiritual misfits.

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you