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Full access: £4/month or £40/year to access Currently, where she goes deep on her favourite tracks. Her high-school friends were regularly festooned with them and now she’s taken her compulsion to Substack, where she posts 10-track Spotify lists along with artist interviews and reflections on her eclectic mixes. Full access: £5/month or £40/year.Īmaya Lim: Record Store Californian writer-musician Amaya Lim is a compulsive playlist-maker. It features videos, shards of music and poetry, a serialised book called The Melting (behind the paywall) and ruminations on whatever’s going through the revered US musician-author’s head on any given week. Patti Smith A pandemic project that’s still going strong, Patti Smith’s intimate newsletter is “thoughtful and eloquent” according to Observer pop critic Kitty Empire. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images And Lauren Hough has a great newsletter called Badreads. Samantha Irby has a fun newsletter that I enjoy. I also read From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy, which is mostly about the ethics and politics around food. Hot Dish with Sohla El-Waylly: she’s a really talented chef and I love her newsletter. I do think that there should be more rigorous standards about things like that. It’s like no, that’s misinformation and dangerous, and. There are definitely people on the platform who are espousing ideas that I think are toxic – and that’s not just, oh, we disagree politically. I think Substack needs to have higher standards in terms of content moderation. And every week, I do a weekly roundup of interesting or troubling things that I’ve read. I curate an emerging writers series, where every two weeks I publish an essay from a writer who has only published three or fewer things, and they’re paid $2,000 (£1,600). I’ve had many blogs over the years and there’s something really nice about that kind of writing that’s not necessarily as formal as something you would publish, but that is still thoughtful and directed towards a specific audience. Why did you decide to start a newsletter?īecause Substack invited me to create one. Her Substack newsletter, The Audacity, launched in 2021 and now has more than 85,000 subscribers. Roxane Gay is an American academic and the author of books including Bad Feminist and Hunger. As well as posting her own ever-acute cultural criticism, she gives a voice to emerging writers and runs a book club devoted to underrepresented American authors.
Roxane Gay: The Audacity “Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints” is the tagline for author and academic Roxane Gay’s newsletter, which has acquired more than 85,000 subscribers since 2021. A fascinating peek under the literary engine cover. He’s also serialising a new novel with input from subscribers. He runs a writer’s workshop where (for a fee) he’ll read and respond to submissions of up to 5,000 words. SJ Watson: Compendia Bestselling British thriller writer SJ Watson ( Before I Go To Sleep) is one of the more inventive literary Substackers.
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Full access: free for a month or so, then £5/month or £40/year. Now he’s taken his teaching online, exploring the inner workings of short stories with nearly 100,000 subscribers and responding with characteristic generosity to questions about craft and the writing life. Story Club with George Saunders For the past 25 years, Booker prize-winning author George Saunders has been running a writing course for a lucky few students at Syracuse University.
Photograph: Ramin Talaie/Ramin Talaie for The Guardian The financial side is handled by Stripe Substack takes 10%, and Stripe levies a 3% fee, but after that it’s all yours (and the tax collector’s). If you want to charge subscribers a monthly fee, there’s a simple button to activate it. Substack is free for authors, operationally reliable and easy to use. Substack, though, they can understand, because well-known writers (including a few famous hacks) appear to be earning serious money from it. But MSM was never much interested in blogs – possibly because many journalists, like Samuel Johnson, regard anyone who writes for nothing as an imbecile. It’s actually been around for ever (since 2017, ie 42 internet-years ago) and you could think of it as the continuation of blogging by other means (and indeed, the tradition of conspiracy-theorising is alive and well on Substack). Substack – the American tech platform that enables anyone to create, publish, and (if they wish) get paid for a subscription newsletter – has belatedly become the New New Thing in mainstream media (MSM) discourse.
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