Substacks recommended by Sherman Alexie

Recommended by Sherman Alexie

Yascha Mounk

Essays and conversations about big ideas that don't need a news hook.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

One of the best Substacks!

- Sherman Alexie

StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz

By Junot Díaz

“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.

One of the very best writers in the world.

- Sherman Alexie

FrizzLit

By Christopher Frizzelle

Exploring literature and art together.

The Literary Obsessive

By Eleanor Anstruther

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

Thinking in Bets

By Annie Duke

Decision making in an uncertain world.

Old Man Still Howling at the Moon

By Peter Johnson

Hybrid essays including a mix of prose poetry and short fiction highlighting the seriocomic musings of an aging Humanist, whose years of publishing books of prose poems, essays, and fiction haven't made him as wise as he should be.

A great prose poem writer.

- Sherman Alexie

Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

Weekly poetry curations & literary lessons designed to transform your writing life

Peter Himmelman’s Morning Musings

Creativity, Spirituality & the Quest for the Perfect Song

A brilliant songwriter and deeply empathetic soul.

- Sherman Alexie

5AM StoryTalk

By Cole Haddon

A place to talk about stories in all their forms, the craft that goes into them, and the role art plays in our lives.

THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

By Hanif Kureishi

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

Musings with Chloé Valdary

Wherever Muse is, there I will follow. ✨

The Unspeakeasy with Meghan Daum

By The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum

Home of The Unspeakeasy Podcast and The Unspeakeasy Live, a weekly livestream on Thursday at 3 pm ET featuring nuanced AF conversations with guests, friends and audience members. Plus new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.

Castalia

By Sam Kahn

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

Undaunted Joy

By Shemaiah Gonzalez

The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight

Notes from the Middleground

By Damon Linker

Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, social-justice progressivism, and cultural topics

Tangentially Speaking with Chris Ryan

Small-batch, hand-crafted, artisanal. From bestselling author and OG podcaster Chris Ryan.

Songletter

We only share the songs that won’t let us go.

Songletter has dropped so many new songs into my mental jukebox. The joy of discovery!

- Sherman Alexie

Trouble Man: Musings of David Yaffe

"Her life was saved by rock and roll"

Seeing Things

By Liza Donnelly

New and unpublished drawings and thoughts for people who want to see more of life, from a New Yorker cartoonist. Drawings, cartoons, words, live drawing, process, more...

Lean Out with Tara Henley

A current affairs newsletter, focusing on heterodox writers and thinkers from around the world.

JB Minton

I explore moral themes in movies, TV, and fiction. Since 2017, I’ve written 1M+ words on Twin Peaks: The Return, hosted podcasts, and published books. Join me on Substack for deep storytelling dives!

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Sports, Business, Politics, Culture

Publishing Confidential

By Kathleen Schmidt

News and analysis about the book publishing industry that you won't read anywhere else.

The Best Song Ever (This Week)

By Scott Frampton

A short, deep dive into a song and what makes it special. Different genres, different eras -- old, new (but probably old).

The Stein Line

By Marc Stein

Insider coverage of the NBA since 1994

"Random Minds" by Katherine Brodsky

Thought-provoking, curiosity-driven essays on culture, society, technology & freedom of speech by a long-time journalist. Topics range from artificial intelligence and censorship to the nuances of human behavior and communication.

Kevin Morby's Fam Club

All things Kev Mo

Dispatches From the Basement

By Joseph Massey

I offer poetry that seeks out the sacred in the ordinary, accompanied by original photography. No politics, no hot takes, just poetry.

Over and over, I’m compelled to send my favorite lines of Joseph Massey’s poems to all the poets and poetry readers I know. I constantly marvel at his work. Massey’s poems are prayers.

- Sherman Alexie

The Poverty Trap

By Joan DeMartin

The Politics And Policy Choices that Create a Cycle of Economic, Racial and Environmental Inequality...and What We Can Do To Change It.

Art Does It

By Regina Doi

Illustrated Stories covering 35 years living, working, and loving for Art.-- News from Art Does It campuses in New York and Alabama. ---Art instruction, slices of life as the artist.

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

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

Freddie deBoer

cool but rude

Garrison Keillor and Friends

This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.

Asking Amy

By Amy Dickinson

Advice, essays and snapshots on how it feels to be human

Liana’s Newsletter

By Liana Finck

A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things. www.lianafinck.com