WOODRUFF

Recommended by Frederick Woodruff

Tarot | An Exploration Project

By Cynthia Giles

Tarot in many dimensions--for everyone from serious practitioners to the newly curious

Aaron Mate

By Aaron Maté

Reporting and analysis by award-winning independent journalist.

Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone

A rumination on the collapse of culture on the left. Is it really that bad? Yes, it is really that bad.

The Chris Hedges Report

By Chris Hedges

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

Christian Nightmares Newsletter

A satirical look at the world of evangelical Christianity.

JUDGEMENT

Writing That Someone (Maybe You?) Paid For

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Substack Reads

Your guide to great writing happening on Substack, plus the home of "The Active Voice", a podcast by Hamish McKenzie.

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Out of It

By Mary Gaitskill

Notes from outside the consternation machine

One of my favorite (and a fellow Saturn in Scorpio) writers in the world.

- Frederick Woodruff

The Microdose

An independent journalism newsletter supported by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

3 by 7

By Arj

I'll send you three (3) songs a week (7).

Sabian Daily

By Marah J

the sabian symbols.

The Sabian symbols delineated one by one.

- Frederick Woodruff

BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power.

Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Cultural Pith, Terrible Secrets and Quality Rants. Two fresh original pieces and two obscure throwback articles a month, with audio performances and oil paintings for all.

Because the universe celebrates the unique, surprising and beautiful, it has given us Cintra Wilson. And she's a damn good painter too. ♥️ ADORE!

- Frederick Woodruff

Deplatformable Newsletter

By Paul

Subscribe to get actionable small business marketing lessons that will get you new subscribers, customers and supporters. Not the worst way to spend a couple of minutes today.

Subtle Maneuvers

By Mason Currey

A fortnightly newsletter on routines, rituals, and wriggling through a creative life, from the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Fire Escape Bonsai

By Max Falkowitz

A plant killer's chronicle of growing little trees in the big city, by Max Falkowitz.

Simon Owens's Media Newsletter

By Simon Owens's Tech and Media Newsletter

A newsletter about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content. This newsletter is free to subscribe to.

Simon is a master of maneuvering the Substack Universe (and all media publishing outlets that exists in the universe). I read his SS the instant it arrives in my inbox.

- Frederick Woodruff

Racket

By Matt Taibbi

Regular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter.

Glenn Greenwald

Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.

Garbage Day

By Ryan Broderick

A newsletter about having fun online.

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

S/FJ

By Sasha Frere-Jones

photographs enthusiasms essays speculation interviews conjecture

Lorem Ipsum

By Margot Boyer-Dry

A newsletter on what's (un)cool and why

Yin Yang and You

By J Starsinger

I write about Modernia, based in Metaphysics with the occasional bout of righteous indignation.

the shimmering void

By Ben (the shimmering void)

think clearly, feel deeply

MOVIELAND

By John Calendo

MOVIELAND conjures up the Hollywood Hallucination in essays and the serialization of a novel about Hitchcock, Hollywood, and the Occult.

The serialized novel. Hitchcock, Hollywood, and the Occult. Characters coming out of the screen. Real people getting swallowed up in the insanely tense world of Hitchcock. My Moon in Scorpio loves it.

- Frederick Woodruff

Herb Sundays

By Sam Valenti IV

Weekly playlists by curators.