Notes from Erin

About the Substack

Notes from Erin is your literary soundtrack, pairing books and music through essays, playlists, and recommendations.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Essays, pairings, and interviews built around books and music. Your literary soundtrack.

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Subscriber-only pairings - the playlist and reading list behind every issue
  • The pairing archive - every book and album I've paired, with notes, in one place
  • Behind the pairing - notes on what didn't make the newsletter

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $5 a month
  • $40 a year

About Erin Ashley

lifelong reader, music lover, and retired music critic.

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