Substacks recommended by Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Recommended by Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Mikal Gilmore

Journalist at Rolling Stone since 1976, author, critic

Lee Zacharias

Writer of fiction and nonfiction

“We can be better people, a better country, if we dare to imagine…”

Douglas’s Substack

By Lloyd Douglas Cotner

My personal Substack

A Psychiatrist Returns from War

By Russell Carr

A retired U.S. Navy psychiatrist shares how he developed PTSD during twenty years of service and how he's found his way back home.

excellent writer!

- Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Joyce Wadler

An occasional humor column, much like the one I did at The New York Times, which was called "I Was Misinformed". But now, the only gatekeeper is me. I hear I will let me get away with anything.

The Virtual Memories Show News

By Gil Roth

Promoting & preserving art & culture, one conversation at a time

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

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

timely, smart, perceptive, engaging. Joyce

- Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Crewdson Trail Log

By Gregory Crewdson

Production notes, picture details, and daily inspirations

Fox at Timber Creek

By Timber Fox

A deep dive every Sunday, often into a place I've explored, and a multitude of short subjects on Wednesday. Forays into the NJ Pine Barrens, forgotten historical sites, and interesting places around the world.

Fiction Attic Press

We publish flash fiction, serial fiction, personal essays, memoir, and the occasional novella-in-flash by new and established writers, plus the "On Writing" craft series. A home for flash fiction since 2005.

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New and unpublished drawings and thoughts for people who want to see more of life, from a New Yorker cartoonist.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...

Liza Donnelly is wonderfully talented.

- Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Jeanette Winterson: Mind Over Matter

By jeanette winterson

Imagination. Ideas. Creativity. Conversation. This is the life of the Mind.

Can We Still Govern?

By Don Moynihan

improving the quality of government, public policy, reducing administrative burdens

Cartoons by Hilary

By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

Weekly cartoons from the sketchbook of New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Ari Melber

An original newsletter by Emmy-winning journalist, MSNBC Anchor, attorney & music obsessive Ari Melber. Facts, fun, and some random thoughts...

Superior insights.

- Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Alphabet Soup

By Etgar Keret

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

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.

America, America

By Steven Beschloss

Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency.

INSIGHT by Frida Ghitis

By Frida

Uncommon Perspective on World Affairs

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

Sree's Sunday Note

By Sree Sreenivasan

A newsletter about digital media, our analog world, and where they meet. Tech, social and life tips from Sree Sreenivasan. Sree is the co-founder of Digimentors and former Chief Digital Officer of NYC, the Met Museum and Columbia University.

strongly worded, unambiguous political & cultural content. highly recommended. Joyce Carol Oates

- Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

The Em Dash—from Carla Zanoni

I’m not good at small talk. Dispatches from my evolving brain, spirit and body.

Drawing Links

By Edith Zimmerman

Journal comics and sketchbook, by Edith Zimmerman.