Top Literature Substacks

Dive into the world of literature with Substack newsletters that offer book reviews, literary analysis, and discussions on classic and contemporary works.

L'ho fatto a Posta logo

Raccontare storie, oggi, non è più solo questione di contenuto, ma anche e soprattutto questione di format. Vince chi inventa i format più interessanti, e per crearli oggi ci vogliono creatività, conoscenza delle piattaforme social, abilità di storytelling. La comunicazione è una materia sempre più correlata all’intrattenimento, ecco perché bisogna saper scrivere format per i brand. Format che sappiano valorizzarne la proposition e che sappiano essere coinvolgenti come una serie TV, una canzone, un talk di intrattenimento.

Story Club with George Saunders logo

#1 Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

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✿ shit you should care about ✿ logo

#2 ✿ shit you should care about ✿

just trying to help make it make sense

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Dracula Daily logo

#3 Dracula Daily

Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens.

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The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad logo

#4 The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

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

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The Bookrat logo

#5 The Bookrat

Just as gym rats live for the next workout, book rats live for the next page. Weekly book summaries by Anthony Pompliano.

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The Booker Prizes logo

#6 The Booker Prizes

Sign up to the Booker Prizes newsletter, where you can discover our long reads, book recommendations, exclusive interviews and much more, from the world's greatest writers of fiction.

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Read Your Color logo

#7 Read Your Color

Get custom book recommendations that are based on YOUR tastes. Take the assessment at ReadYourColor.com.

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Patti Smith logo

#8 Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

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Arts & Letters Daily logo

#9 Arts & Letters Daily

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

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World Builders logo

#10 World Builders

Exploring the art and science of story to help you become a more effective storyteller.

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Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar logo

#11 Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

This is the home of two newsletters. Paid subscribers get Cheryl's Dear Sugar Letter monthly, plus her free newsletter several times a year, which includes her "Tells Us" author series. Free subscribers get everything but the monthly Dear Sugar Letter.

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Emily’s Grocery List logo

#12 Emily’s Grocery List

reading recommendations, writing tips, book news, and more!

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In the Writing Burrow logo

#13 In the Writing Burrow

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

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Things That Don't Suck logo

#14 Things That Don't Suck

One poet's quest to uncover what shifts when we shift our attention

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Romance Bookworms Free Book Alert logo

#15 Romance Bookworms Free Book Alert

Romance ebook deals and steals

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Astro Poets logo

#16 Astro Poets

poetry | astrology | mystery

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The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor logo

#17 The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

A celebration of poetry and historical interest pieces

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Book of the Day from The Next Big Idea Club logo

#18 Book of the Day from The Next Big Idea Club

Transform your day in 10 minutes. Enjoy daily, bite‑sized insights from breakthrough nonfiction books—audio or text—straight from the authors. Trusted by 86K+ learners, our editors choose only the books that matter.

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postcards by elle logo

#19 postcards by elle

curated recommendations, brain food, and longform essays. postcards delivered to you every week.

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Poetic Outlaws  logo

#20 Poetic Outlaws

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

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Summer Never Ends with MKA logo

#21 Summer Never Ends with MKA

Greetings from MKA Worldwide Industries. This is my newsletter where I will share news about my forthcoming books and tour dates, as well as updates from Friends & Fiction—the web show, podcast, and online community I host with three fellow authors.

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Poetry Unbound logo

#22 Poetry Unbound

Open your world with poetry

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The Hyphen by Emma Gannon logo

#23 The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

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The Ghost logo

#24 The Ghost

On writing and life. Long-form musings on the nature of creativity and the essence of everything. Some poems, too.

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Livros Imperdíveis logo

#25 Livros Imperdíveis

A sua newsletter de promoções e indicações de livros 📕🤑🙂

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CRAFT TALK logo

#26 CRAFT TALK

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!)

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing logo

#27 The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

A twice weekly newsletter chock-full of guidance and support from publishing industry insiders. Expect author interviews, guest blogs, giveaways, and more!

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For Dear Life with Maggie Smith logo

#28 For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

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The Commonplace logo

#29 The Commonplace

Noticing what's still beautiful, good, and true in the world. Because it's there—if you have the eyes to see.

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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak logo

#30 Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

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The Bookish Club logo

#31 The Bookish Club

A bookish newsletter by readers, for readers. Each month, we read a book together and chat about it! Subscribe to join a book club filled with unfiltered thoughts, book recs, and more :)

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THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES logo

#32 THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

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Silent Book Club logo

#33 Silent Book Club

No homework. No small talk. Just reading with friends.

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Before and After the Book Deal logo

#34 Before and After the Book Deal

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry from an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

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Sub Club logo

#35 Sub Club

Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers delivered to your inbox weekly.

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The Clearing by Katherine May logo

#36 The Clearing by Katherine May

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

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Memoir Land logo

#37 Memoir Land

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.

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Patti Callahan Henry  logo

#38 Patti Callahan Henry

Stories Are My Thing: A newsletter and thoughts on writing, reading, and inspiration for the creative life with NYT bestselling author of eighteen novels, and Founder and co-host of Friends and Fiction.

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Book Club for Aspiring Authors logo

#39 Book Club for Aspiring Authors

This a community publication to showcase introductions or sample book chapters from authors of the ILLUMINATION community.

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R.F. Kuang logo

#40 R.F. Kuang

on what i'm writing, what i'm reading, and where to find me

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Monday Monday  logo

#42 Monday Monday

Personal essays and creative quandaries

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Showcase logo

#43 Showcase

Lovely words and writers as they see themselves. Object & Idea.

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Andrius Tapinas  logo

#44 Andrius Tapinas

Kronikos ir Echoskopijos. Podcastai. Paveikslų analizės. Rašomo romano fragmentai ir komentarai. Knygų draugija. Ir dar daug visko

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Agents and Books logo

#45 Agents and Books

The FAQ on how to find an agent and how to write books, all in one place.

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Noted logo

#46 Noted

Tips from the world's best note takers

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Obvious State logo

#47 Obvious State

In pursuit of wisdom and beauty. A graphic artist's take on classic literature and modern culture.

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americanbaron logo

#48 americanbaron

writings about my life and stuff.

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🗒 Notas al margen ✨  logo

#49 🗒 Notas al margen ✨

Inspiración y herramientas de escritura creativa.

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John Paul Brammer  logo

#50 John Paul Brammer

Writing, art, and more from John Paul Brammer.

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Alphabet Soup logo

#51 Alphabet Soup

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

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Ijeoma Oluo: Behind the Book logo

#52 Ijeoma Oluo: Behind the Book

Writing, life, and writing life

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Rene Webb’s Newsletter logo

#53 Rene Webb’s Newsletter

The weekly newsletter for USA TODAY Bestselling Romance Author Rene Webb.

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Escaping Flatland logo

#54 Escaping Flatland

I write essays about relationships, thought, and agency. I hang with our kids. We live on a pine covered island in the Baltic Sea. That's about it.

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Chris’s Saturday Special logo

#55 Chris’s Saturday Special

Life Lessons for the Start Up Writer

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Salman's Sea of Stories logo

#56 Salman's Sea of Stories

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

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The Well by Jorden Makelle logo

#57 The Well by Jorden Makelle

A once-per-month newsletter from writer/entrepreneur Jorden Makelle. Subscribe for personal updates and photos, freelance life/business updates, and fiction writing updates!

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Hungry Dogs with James Patterson logo

#58 Hungry Dogs with James Patterson

Telling stories, combating insanity, and talking to humans.

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Belletrist logo

#59 Belletrist

Belletrist is an online reading community dedicated to books and the people who love them. We choose a new book to read at the beginning of each month and invite our online community to read along.

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Great Reads By John Biggs logo

#60 Great Reads By John Biggs

A digest of great reads and other cool stuff by John Biggs.

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Johnathan Bi logo

#61 Johnathan Bi

Studying the great books, sharing my learnings through lectures & interviews

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Say Less by Larry Smith & The Six-Word Memoir Project logo

#62 Say Less by Larry Smith & The Six-Word Memoir Project

The art of short-form storytelling for self-expression, focus, and connection at work, home, and more .

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CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY with Evelyn Skye logo

#63 CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY with Evelyn Skye

I’m Evelyn Skye—NYT bestselling novelist, podcast host, and believer in the quiet power of creativity & kindness. Subscribe for behind-the-scenes of publishing, reflections on storytelling & ambition, and what it means to live a literary life with heart.

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Looking at Picture Books logo

#64 Looking at Picture Books

Conversations about how picture books work.

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Amie’s Substack logo

#65 Amie’s Substack

My personal Substack

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The Common Reader logo

#66 The Common Reader

Nerdy literature newsletter. Helping you make the most of your reading.

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Between the Lines by Tucson Festival of Books logo

#67 Between the Lines by Tucson Festival of Books

The official newsletter of the Tucson Festival of Books. The Festival is March 15-16, 2025. Books are forever. Your weekly reminder: you're part of a community that values literature all year long.

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La Octava Poesía logo

#68 La Octava Poesía

Un espacio para hablar poéticamente de todo. Con pasión, sensibilidad e intensidad sobre las cosas que nos mueven. Todos los domingos.

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A Writer's Notebook logo

#69 A Writer's Notebook

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

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The Marissa Meyer Newsletter logo

#70 The Marissa Meyer Newsletter

Welcome to the new home of The Marissa Meyer Newsletter, where you'll get the latest on book releases, movie and TV news, The Happy Writer Podcast, where to find merch and more!

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personal canon logo

#71 personal canon

finding meaning in life through literature, art, design, and culture ✦✧ through weekly posts and enthusiastic conversations

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Camilla Isley logo

#72 Camilla Isley

Writer, book worm, cats lover, coffee addict, shoe hoarder.

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Werk-In-Progress logo

#73 Werk-In-Progress

Life itself as a creative process.

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The Elif Life logo

#74 The Elif Life

Dispatches from the author of The Idiot

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SubMakk logo

#75 SubMakk

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

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Rekt logo

#76 Rekt

Essays, serialized books, and poems by Michael Rectenwald

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#77 BIBLIOLIFESTYLE

Thoughtfully curated books, cozy rituals, literary and lifestyle guides, BYOB club, and lots of seasonal joy!

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#78 Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

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Kristin’s Substack logo

#79 Kristin’s Substack

New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel (The Book of Lost Names, The Paris Daughter), who is also one of the author hosts of Friends & Fiction, keeps in touch with readers about upcoming events, book news, and great reads she's excited about. Sig

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Out of It logo

#80 Out of It

Notes from outside the consternation machine

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Poetry Today logo

#81 Poetry Today

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

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Collective World  logo

#82 Collective World

We connect and cheerlead thoughtful and poetic creatives.

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Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe logo

#83 Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

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.

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Kotter’s Substack logo

#84 Kotter’s Substack

My personal Substack

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Editora Anticítera logo

#85 Editora Anticítera

Editora que resgata grandes autores

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Writers Circle logo

#86 Writers Circle

Enjoy tips about writing and publishing from a senior editor at Penguin Random House.

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Chapter Break logo

#87 Chapter Break

Writing advice and book publishing insights from industry leaders and established authors put together by your friendly neighborhood book editor!

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Relance’s Substack logo

#88 Relance’s Substack

My personal Substack

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SoCreate Weekly Digest logo

#89 SoCreate Weekly Digest

Your friendly SoCreate Screenwriting Software sidekick guiding you through the fun, fulfilling world of screenwriting. From novices to pros, we've got your creative journey covered!

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Kitap Kulübü logo

#90 Kitap Kulübü

Yavaşlamak, genişlemek ve derin düşünmek için tam teşekküllü bir kitap kulübü. Daha fazla bilgi için hakkında sayfasını ziyaret edin.

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Uma Palavra logo

#91 Uma Palavra

Relatos das minhas escavações nas ruínas da linguagem.

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#92 Leer por leer

Leo novelas, ficción, no ficción, biografías... Leo mucho dramón y mucho menos comedia de lo que me gustaría. Leo sin complejos y sin buscar nada. Y me encuentro de todo. También escribo. Pero poco.

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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN'S DIARY logo

#93 CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN'S DIARY

Criticism, essays, etc.

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#94 Rarasaur

Rarasaur blog is an imperfect glimpse into the frightfully wondrous (and frightful, and wondrous) life experiences of author & dinosaur Ra Avis. P.S. You are loved. Joy sustains the revolution. Life happens everywhere, and we celebrate anyway.

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#95 Footnotes and Tangents

Slow reads of great books. Book guides and a reading community to help you get more from the best stories.

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#96 It'll Be Fun, They Said

Writer in London working at a tiny indie London bookshop + latest news from my book - Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

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Kafka’s Substack logo

#97 Kafka’s Substack

My personal Substack

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Misfits & Daydreamers logo

#98 Misfits & Daydreamers

Where writers come for publishing, craft, and creative life advice from a NYT bestselling author — because a curious writer is a thriving one

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Cup of Stars logo

#99 Cup of Stars

Inconstant essays, nostalgia, big feelings, writing thoughts, food, rage.

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Whale Weekly logo

#100 Whale Weekly

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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