My personal Substack

To help you tell your best story, a novelist, editor, and poet explores our evolved, biological predisposition toward storytelling

A newsletter about visions, transformation, and writing. Currently, I'm focused on writing a serialized memoir about my former life as an Evangelical.

Trusted by 40K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch. Collaborations welcome.

For the timid and brave, the published and unpublished, honest in-the-weeds missives from the writing trenches.

A creative journal with dirt in the corners.

An odd array of poems, stories, essays, and other verbal peculiarities penned by Tom Vandel.

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Novelist and journalist, often called a Southern writer. My writing is funny, smart, and sometimes quite moving.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.