Personal Papers

#5SmartReads is the daily digest of the news you should know, the books to read, and the things that will make your life better.

The best of McLuhan from the past and the present, for today and tomorrow

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of the forthcoming "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions and "One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large."

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Fictionistas is a community for fellow fiction writers on Substack

A newsletter about rejiggered literary classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.

Fresh writing and audio from one of the great contemporary storytellers

Notes from Erin is a biweekly newsletter on all things music and reading-related.

Encouraging insights for personal and societal healing.

Advice from Heather Havrilesky, author of Ask Polly, formerly of New York Magazine

Tales from the history of innovation.

On writing, craft, worry & joy.

Secretly drawn art of the world, delivered to your inbox.

Many-Worlds Vision is a weekly newsletter of imagery from dream realms, visions and psychedelic journeys. It is psychic reporting and psyche archeology. We are all conduits of cosmic consciousness.

memory, aging in amazement, the inner life

Musings on everyday happenings and conversations, book reviews, experiments in creative nonfiction writing, writing advice.

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

Exploring the history of the food and recipes of the past.

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

Music, life, spirituality and a shared quest for peace.

from the Sufi Archives of 20th century mystic, Shamcher Bryn Beorse. Meditations, energy, economics, Sufism, commentary.

Poetry, ponderings and stories to make sense and meaning out of this too short existence...