For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

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

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.

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

The heart and science of parenting

essays and encouragement for people doing their best in a busted up world.

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

deepening your practice of poetry, mindset, and wonder

A bimonthly newsletter about life, literature, & Lexapro.

For people who do language.

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

Weekly writing, poetry, photography, advice, and creative inspiration on how to chase the light, embrace the dark, and find all the miracles in the mundane from the author of the nationally best-selling "Chasers of the Light" and other best-sellers.

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 2024 it begins 6/1!)

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.

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 about creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, and after publishing. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, cry, laugh, and feel. Read me, won’t you?