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Recommended by Julie Steward

The Art of Noticing

By Rob Walker Art of Noticing

Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker.

The Feral Stack

By Summer Koester

Cultural criticism and lyrical essays from the last wilderness. On rewilding, resistance, and revolution.

Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Cultural Pith, Terrible Secrets and Quality Rants. Two fresh original pieces and two obscure throwback articles a month, with audio performances and oil paintings for all.

Cintra is, quite simply, the best writer on planet Earth. Want to improve your own writing? Read Cintra Wilson.

- Julie Steward

Blackbird's Flight School with Jennifer Lauck

🐦‍⬛ Spent 20 years failing at novels until I cracked the code. Now I teach the map: scene by scene, the craft that actually works. 🐦‍⬛

Finally! Someone who talks about writing in a voice that rings true. She's great.

- Julie Steward

Jennifer’s Newsletter

By Jennifer Black

Being Alive

The Intellectual Investor

By Vitaliy Katsenelson

Value Investing, Life/Philosophy and Classical Music Explained

Sierra Echo Charlie

By sierra echo charlie

Discursive Observations & Random Thought Balloons: I’m a S.F. Bay Area songwriter/musician and I write about culture, history, music, and personal experience.

Lemme tell ya, SEC, as I like to call him, makes me want to open Substack everyday. He is not only hilarious and astute, but he also is very generous with his comments when he reads other people’s stacks. I give him 5 stars!🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

- Julie Steward

Star Trekking

By Neil Shurley

Dispatches from the final frontier.

Not only is Neil Shurley hilarious, but he is passionate about his interest in Star Trek, life, and everything in between. Be like Spock. Subscribe to his stack: It's only logical.

- Julie Steward

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

Laurie Stone's writing is insightful, engaging, captivating, and soul-feeding. She is a master of the craft!

- Julie Steward

Thousand Yard Stare

By Gordon Skene

Missives, Treatises and Manifestos

How Not to F*ck Up Your Face

By Val Monroe

philosophical and practical advice for anyone who's ever looked into a mirror

WHOLESOME PEOPLE

By Martin Brodsky

interviews, essays and fiction

Poetic Outlaws

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

Words | Pictures

By Bruce Harris

I am a creative writer and picture taker from the Midwest. Photos paired with short prose. Personal essays. Short stories. Poems. Other stuff. Not publishing on Substack right now, but I am still reading my favorite writers here. bruceharris.net

My Favorite Classical Music

By Vitaliy Katsenelson

Thursday highlights about a classical piece or composer along with Saturday classical picks for a beautiful start to your weekend.

Love, Kara Q.

By Kara Quinata

From Silence to Screams: A Writer's Tale of Life's Sagas and Confessions

Luna's Substack

By Luna Sofía Miranda

My personal Substack

This woman is beyond brilliant. Movie star, director, author, and much more, Luna is someone I’m honored to know.

- Julie Steward