Poor Man's Feast

Recommended by Elissa Altman

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

A newsletter about curiosity, creativity, writing, ideas and the joyous tragicomic struggle to live a fully examined life.

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

- Elissa Altman

Alice on Sunday

By Alice Elliott Dark

A writing life.

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

- Elissa Altman

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 🥗

Buona Domenica

By Domenica Marchetti

Italian recipes and inspiration delivered every Sunday

Beyond

By Jane Ratcliffe

Intimate Conversations With Heart-Centered Minds

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

- 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.

EDIBLE LIVING by Sarah Copeland

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

Modern Loss

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

Katherine May's Stray Attention

Notes on the luminious mundane, from Wintering 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

this is precious

By Sarah Wilson

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

Out of It

By Mary Gaitskill

Notes from outside the consternation machine

Substack Reads

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

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

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

To Vegetables, With Love

By Hetty Lui McKinnon

A vegetable life less ordinary, with Hetty Lui McKinnon

SubMakk

By Rebecca Makkai

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

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 4-6 times a year. Free subscribers get her regular newsletter only. Thanks!

Allison Moorer: The Autotelic

By Allison Moorer/The Autotelic

Managing the search for meaning through ever evolving means.

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