Substacks recommended by Alexandra Auder

Recommended by Alexandra Auder

Readings at Parkside & Tent Editions

Style advice, shopping picks, pop culture, and opinion for over-40 women and the over-40-curious, from former Sassy staffer and Lucky Magazine founding editor in chief Kim France.

had so much fun on Kim's podcast.

- Alexandra Auder

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

duh

- Alexandra Auder

The Dream Baby Press Substack

By Dream Baby Press

Dream Baby Press is here to make literature a little more exciting. Join us for The Love/Hate Lists, A Writing Club in Burger King, Writing Prompts, Erotica, and things you'll probably want to share with friends ❤️

Luke Likes Glue

By Luke Goebel

Luke Likes Glue is Luke Goebel's Substack in which he interviews crazy people. And geniuses. And his sane friends occasionally. All two of them.

Italics Mine

By Edan Lepucki

The life a novelist/mother in Los Angeles.

extended scenes

By Jenn Romolini

ambition+ aging but sometimes i talk about clothes/face creams (from the former co-host of the 'everything is fine' podcast and author of the memoir 'ambition monster')

The Querent

By Alexander Chee

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

duh

- Alexandra Auder

MUTHR, FCKD

Deep thoughts and petty bullshit about feminism, pop culture, and the human condition by journalist Vivian Manning-Schaffel. Gen XXX. Unbothered.

Amra Brooks

Mother Is a Place, Dopamine Books in 2026. I offer individual manuscript reviews and editing services as well as private writing workshops.

Reading the City

By Tyler Wetherall

a newsletter of bookish events in New York City

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, art, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

duh

- Alexandra Auder

Canal Street Dreams

By EDDIE HUANG

Super Lyrical Writing from Chef Eddie Huang the owner of Baohaus, Author of NYT Bestseller Fresh Off the Boat, Host of Huang's World, and Director of Vice Is Broke. Each week you get an essay and podcast from Eddie as well as his wife, Natashia Perrotti.

I liked what he wrote about that guy who shot that other guy.

- Alexandra Auder

Miranda July

Off the cuff MJ writing/videos/picts/audio for paid subscribers and an ongoing All Fours Group Chat for everyone (not a book club! A place to talk about your own life.)

can't help it I loved the book too.

- Alexandra Auder

Selling Out

By Natasha Stagg

Mostly New York-based missives from the author of Surveys, Sleeveless, Artless, and Grand Rapids.

Great hair xo

- Alexandra Auder

Peter Trachtenberg: Not Dark Yet

Writing about literature, music, politics, ethics, history, and the end of the world. In no particular order.

he da real deal. xo

- Alexandra Auder

My personal Substack

Books, art, music, movies

duh

- Alexandra Auder

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Everything You Want to Eat

By Emily Claire Baird

Get inspired to eat better and order out less. Recipes, kitchen strategies, and unfussy real-life notes from a private chef and mom feeding clients, kids, and herself.

yes, she may be my cousin but I TRULY love her recipes and use them everyday. I JUST the pounded chicken breast. So easy!!

- Alexandra Auder

Astro Poets

poetry | astrology | mystery

Art Hang by Vero Santes

By Veronica Pesantes: Miami Art Hang

In this bi weekly newsletter I talk about Latinx art, culture & healing. I approach life and writing from a decolonizing, social justice perspective that is constantly questioning injustice and seeking peace and a good laugh.

- Alexandra Auder

Dinner: A Love Story

By Jenny Rosenstrach

A newsletter devoted to reading, eating, and family dinner, however you define "family" and however you define "dinner." Written by the bestselling author of the Dinner: A Love Story book series including, most recently "The Weekday Vegetarians."

Attention Economy

By Leigh Stein

honest advice about making a career as an author today

Unrealistic Character

By Alice Carrière

Just a dissociated writer keeping it unreal.

Food Processing

By carla lalli

Recipes, stories, and time-tested recommendations from Carla's kitchen.

MAGICAL OVERTHINKERS

By Amanda Montell

A newsletter about modern-day delusion: thought spirals, wild ambitions, cults, language, and more...

The Chris Hedges Report

By Chris Hedges

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

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.

The Royal We

By Roddy Bottum

Fiction and pieces of my upcoming memoir, writing, words, opera, noise, crafting, tap dancing, quicksand

The best man, the funniest man, the hottest man, the most generous man...and the icing on the thong? Amazing writer.

- Alexandra Auder

"It's Ottessa, bitch."

By Ottessa

"I give of myself unto thee." -Ottessa Moshfegh

I think about Lapvona every day.

- Alexandra Auder

Dear Diary

By Michelle Tea

A newsletter about the daily whatever, including art, tarot, movies, the occult, literature, gossip, food, queerness, sex, diary and the rest.

After Class with Cadence

By Cadence Dubus

a newsletter and podcast about our bodies and how to live in them from an all bodies inclusive feminist perspective. sometimes funny, hopefully always useful.

So smart, so fun, so luscious, so strong. Read her shit. xo

- Alexandra Auder