For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A respite from the chaos of modern life. A campfire of wisdom, story, song, & timeless truths.

Because it's too hot to think in a tank. Unusual cultural musings by an award winning author and sometimes professor of history and of poetry. Ideas and the creative life. Books, art, tv, science, atheism, poetry, doubt etc.

Hello. You've reached Time & Temperature. I can't properly tell you either, but I promise to tell you everything else!

Everything I can't say on social media and home of The Conversation Podcast.

Stories and drawings about creative practice, self love, neurodivergence and Invisible Things.

An ongoing conversation about the daily mess of life: Family, politics, books, teaching, writing, journalism - and dogs, always dogs. In my world, hope is a fact.

Grief, joy, and everything in between

This is heart work

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

The heart and science of parenting

Podcasts & Essays from Nora McInerny.

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

reality tv, magic, PTSD, and a little bit about writing

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

A newsletter about life, literature, & Lexapro.

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it might save yours.

Misogyny and more

Scribbling into the void!

The internet’s most intimate, illuminating interviews with today’s greatest writers—get an in-depth look into the craft of writing and what it means to be a heart-centered human in a hard world.

A sporadic journal about song-making and story-writing

The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, nature, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).

Poetry, literary opportunities, & creative inspiration from author, editor, and poet, Kelli Russell Agodon.

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

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

The reader is my notebook

That was tough. Let's go for a walk.

Space to say true things, with ancient stories serving as mirrors and lights. Now living at LifeIsASacredText.com 🌱

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

emotional messes & intimate conversations

Essays, poetry, photography, & creative inspiration on how to be a BETTER human being, chase the light, embrace the dark, & find all the miracles in the mundane from the author of the nationally best-selling "Chasers of the Light" and more.

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

Pop culture meets poetry: explainers, author interviews, book reviews, & exercises for the creative mind and writers of all kinds. Written weekly by Caitlin Cowan.

Life itself as a creative process.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2025 it begins 5/31!)

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

The Experiment is an early '60s TV talk show hosted by Jason Stanford. Every week he opens with a monologue before sharing the stage with a curated stable of writers before offering suggestions on what to do, read, watch, and listen to.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, after publishing, and after moving 11,000 times. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel. Sorry.