notes on bewilderment

We do what we can. Sometimes that's something.

A space for chat about the nature of creativity, the creative process & the perks & pitfalls of creating with an ADHD brain. Support and inspiration for writers and other artists

I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

Art, meditations, herbal remedies and spiritual deliberations for the collective heart.

Ann Telnaes- Artist, visual storyteller, creator of "Open Windows"

making sense of it

Media, culture, journalism, murder, and the occasional baking of actual pie

A Natural Drift is where I linger over stories about nature and fly fishing, recovery, art, family, teaching, and writing: where I might ponder about how we express the human experience.

Essays about artists and other adults I admire. But also poems, recommendations, and serializing a memoir I'm writing called "Happiness Ruined Everything," chapters of which I'll post probably once a week. Oh, and I don't believe in trigger warnings.

Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences

My personal Substack

The reader is my notebook

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

My personal Substack

Ideas and insights about how to write with power and originality—without the angst. See what happens when you ignite your imaginative intelligence!

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.

Nominated for Best American Essay and Pushcart Prize. Proudly niche since 2006 in posts of 2 minutes or less. A Substack Bestseller in Literature. Subscribe FREE as long as Substack allows. No cost. No risk. No obligation.

Books, art, music, movies

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

Words on the hither and thither, not necessarily in that order.

Home of The Unspeakeasy Podcast (formerly known as The Unspeakable), occasional livestreams, and new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.

144-word essays, book stuff, writing stuff, etc.

Open your world with poetry

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.

Notes, insights and conversations on writing, music, art, philosophy and creativity from the founding editor of The New York Times philosophy series The Stone.

Notes from outside the consternation machine

NibLit is a small bite of literary inspiration. It is a short-form newsletter that interviews creative writers and artists, who are asked the same three questions about why and how they make their work.

Petite, ma grand-mère m’appelait "brave bête" quand je lui sautais au cou. Aujourd’hui, j’ausculte la bête en moi, la brave aussi. Fragments, souvenirs, vertiges. Un journal d’ombres et de feux, de ce qui résiste et s’efface.

Home Is Where We Start, Fig Tree, Penguin.

An impromptu and experimental effort toward joining individual digits (i.e., friends, readers) with soft tissue (reflections, urgencies, doubts, loves).