Notes from a bookseller/writer. Creativity and commerce, publishing and human nature, recommendations and regrets, trouble and desire.
Bookseller in Portland (not at the big place). Novelist and essayist. New novel, EPIC AND LOVELY, coming fall 2025 from WVU Press.
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.
Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.
the substack formerly known as sicker/sickest (2019-2021), now about way more stuff than illness but it was always kind of like that? anyway hi, 2023!
cultural criticism, historical deep dives, & flights of pop culture fancyโwith footnotes
In which Margaret & Sophie & Karen boss the Internet with impeccable discernment & insouciant charm. Cultural recommendations & commentary every Friday evening.