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A podcast about the culture that surrounds you — with Anne Helen Petersen and a bunch of very smart co-hosts

a weekly newsletter about how the internet is impacting how we write and publish books, by extremely online author Leigh Stein

The 52 Project

By Jami Attenberg

A little newsletter about aging and being a 52-year-old woman and being alive on this planet earth, right now. For 52 weeks straight.

Practically Deliberate with Abby Davisson

Actionable insights on intentionality, decision-making, and personal development (like the ones in my book, Money & Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions) that lead to greater wellbeing.

Lit*er*al*ly, Ororo

By Ororo Munroe

Words are my LURVE language. Writing MY truth every week. Lit*er*al*ly.

This woman is a F*CKING ray of sunshine, bitches, and I adore the blunt barbs she brings each week. She's reminding me how to be a better human, which is NOT easy as I'm sort of Larry David, but in a cuter format 😂

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

No F*cks Given® with Sarah Knight

Straight-talking advice and sweary inspiration from a New York Times bestselling author. (Me!)

Disability & Determination

By Jackie

Once upon a time there lived a disabled thirty-something trying to maneuver mental health, relationships, a global pandemic, getting older, and day-to-day life. This is her story...

Zibby's Highlights

By Zibby Owens

I tell it like it is. My mission in my writing and in my literary media company is to deepen the connections between readers, writers, and each other. I do so, in part, by sharing my own thoughts openly and authentically. You'll get all of that here.

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

Unfixed

By Kimberly Warner

Instead of living fixed I'm learning to live well. Subscribe to receive snack-sized chapters from my memoir Unfixed (Sundays) and new media, resources and prompts for anyone searching for solidarity and meaning within adversity (Thursdays).

A Very Good Year

A podcast with a simple premise: each week we invite a guest to select their favorite year of movies, and spend an hour talking about that year.

Harper’s Magazine

The free, weekly features of America’s oldest general-interest monthly.

A Sassy Little Substack

By Sandra Ann Miller

A sassy little 'stack about being authentically happy, right now, as is (no toxic positivity allowed), living big in a small space, and figuring it all out, one misstep at a time. New posts each Wednesday. xo

Over the Influence

By Jo Piazza

A hilarious and often factual romp through the world of social media, old-school media, publishing and whatever else catches our fancy.

Sanctuary + Support for the Midlife Woman

By Skylar Liberty Rose

Proudly pro-aging. Helping women embrace their 40s & 50s and beyond. Disrupting ageism and challenging a culture of anti-aging.

Incidental Comics

By Grant Snider

Impossible thoughts and complicated feelings, illustrated. With bonus musings on how to live a creative life.

Good Humor

From the famous quote, “Arise good humor. Thou hast given me a joust of moral flavor.” Sir Wellington of Argyle, the discoverer of a heavy beef dish and a sock for golfers.

Because Christopher Hitchens couldn't have been more wrong... Women are Funny AF!

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

Life (un)Learned

By Kim Van Bruggen

It’s not you, it’s what you learned along the way.

Drinks With Broads

By Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

A Pop Culture Cocktail Served by the Fug Girls

Eleanor’s Substack

By Eleanor Anstruther

Short Stories, 65 Postcards, The Recovery Diaries, In Judgement Of Others

THE EMPRESS

By The Empress

Exploring what it means to be a woman aging in the world while obsessively curating a less hellish peri/menopause... Between the mother & crone phases, there's a great deal of power in the messy middle—a dynamism that's highly generative and creative.

Womancake Magazine

By Alicia Dara

Slices of wisdom by women age 40+. Wildly inspiring interviews, personal essays, poetry and visual art delivered right to your inbox.

Kurt Vonnegut Radio

By Gabe Hudson

If Kurt Vonnegut had a podcast, it would sound like this.

Love, Stephanie Greene

Lovely heresy and liberating self healing in a cauldron of queerness, spiritual wandering, slow rituals, storytelling, and an ongoing exploration of Third Way.

Shaved Meats, Piled High

By Laura Lippman

Blatant self-promotion for my novels because I never want to have a real job again. But, hey, it's only monthly and it's free.

Joyce Wadler

A humor column, much like the one I did at The New York Times, which was called "I Was Misinformed". But now, the only gatekeeper is me. I hear I will let me get away with anything.

Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen

I read a lot and share what I learn. Spiritual seeker. Pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are so we can re-write a truer version. Podcast host and author of the New York Times bestseller ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR.

Field Blend

By Elyse Chambers

Thoughts on motherhood, womanhood and the stuff of life – serving up beautiful finds along the way.

The Direction of Motion

By Kathy Valentine

A coming of aging story. Also thoughts, music, pop culture, random facts and stuff that interests me.

The New Now

By Russell C. Smith

Essays, prose poetry, novel chapters, short stories, noir prose poems, flash fiction, art, life, freedom of thought.

Gorgeous, thought-provoking prose and ideas...

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

Force Majeure by Alicia Dara

A Gen-X mid-life womanifesto. Life-affirming, love-learning and limitless.

A singular voice teaching others to tap into theirs. Seriously, she's a witch of the highest order. Alicia, I will never stop using the word "invagination" in place of "imagination" and it's all because of you! 😂

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing

Free-thinker. Writer. Book editor. I strive to tell the truth to the best of my ability in my writing; I try to be as authentic as I possibly can be. Find more of my published work at: https://www.michaelmohrwriter.com/

Saratonin

By Sara Benincasa

A delightful weekly newsletter that is sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant & often full of useful recommendations & weirdly enchanting ideas

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

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

A Special Place In Hell

By Meghan & Sarah

Two girls, one pod.

Gary’s Journey Through Hell

By Gary Shteyngart

Nine Circles +

The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie

New writing from the award-winning author, psychologist and mythologist. A gathering place for hags, lovers of myth, fairy tales and archetypal psychology, and all those seeking the enchanted life.

homeculture is becoming the pocket observatory

By Meg Conley

Collecting light from the seen and unseen.

The Long Middle

By Lisa Renee

Letters about life in the middle.

In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

By Sara Petersen

Unpacking my obsession with momfluencer culture to destroy the myth of the perfect mama.

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

The Hyphen is an independent newsletter for curious readers from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

The Midst

The gateway drug for the modern midlife experience. Also an independent media project by the makers of Venus Zine and Jumble & Flow.

Poor Man's Feast

By Elissa Altman

The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, nature, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).

Girls of a Certain Age

By Kim France

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.

Tone Knob

By Nick Parker

Taking a nerd's-eye view of brands doing interesting things with their language and tone of voice. Monthly. Written by Nick Parker. www.nickparker.co.uk

Witty... and oh-so-informative deep dives into the world's most remarkable brands. You will not regret, people. You will learn!

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

They're Not All Gems

By Wendi Aarons

Emma Straub's Newsletter

Bestselling novelist and bookstore owner Emma Straub has a lot to say, and this is where to read it.

Kill Your Darlings

By Paul Bogaards

Updates and stories from the frontiers of book publishing.

Oh, the witty, violent delights of publishing... (cackles) THIS is a good one!

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Unruly Figures

By Valorie Clark

Stories of real people who refused to play by the rules.

Mad Woman

By Amanda Montei

Feminist analysis of books and culture + other hysterics by Amanda Montei, author of TOUCHED OUT and other stuff.

Publishing Confidential

By Kathleen Schmidt

News and analysis about the book publishing industry that you won't read anywhere else.

The Spread

By Rachel & Maggie

What would make the perfect women’s magazine? Juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal examinations of women’s lives—and none of the advertiser obligations. Welcome to the Spread!

These women are on fire. You will want to be in some wacky coven with them and they might just say, "Yeah, get over here..." 😂

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

Day In The Life

By Tom a pissed off cat

A satirical look at American, Canadian. UK politics seen through the eyes of an extremely pissed off cat who is baffled by the behavior of the two-legs in his orbit

When Tom a pissed off cat talks... America listens. Why? Because an angry feline essayist, who's both goddamned practical and f*cking hilarious, is exactly what this crazy current zeitgeist needs. You're welcome, world!

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Writing

By Amber Sparks

Useless and flailing observations about writing that will not save you

Ignore Previous Directions

By Mandy Stadtmiller

How to thrive and survive in the creator economy with AI.

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

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

Girl Trouble

By Diana Whitney

Join me for Girl Trouble, a monthly newsletter of my favorite books & feminist heroes.

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

By Carissa Potter

emotional messes & intimate conversations

The 914

By 914Editor

Dispatches from the elite northern suburbs of New York City. Delivered infrequently, but always at either 9:14 a.m. or p.m.

The cleverest... There's never an instance where I'm not learning a new word from this gem of a newsletter. Plus, who knew a WEED WRENCH was a thing? Not this girl. I LOVE that branding.

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

FEMINIST GIANT

By Mona Eltahawy

Global feminist resistance to patriarchal fuckery

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

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

The TueNight Social

By TueNight

A grab-bag of Gen-X goodies: midlife stories, pop culture, and a community for grown-ass women

sweater weather

By Brandon

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Singular cultural criticism and craft. Love me my stories about all the feels... and the gilded rage.

- Alisa Kennedy Jones

Adventures In "Journalism" by Sari Botton

Highlights and lowlights* (*mostly lowlights) from one Gen X lady writer's rather circuitous career path.

Both Are True

By Alex Dobrenko

Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to one, and friend to all.

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you