Substacks recommended by Daniel Knauf

Recommended by Daniel Knauf

Looking for festive feel-good reads? Hallmark with heat? Presenting the Betting On Christmas collection. Standalone romance reads featuring all the hijinks you expect from a high society NYC wedding, a momzilla and a hilariously mismatched wedding party.

Oren's Mad Musings

By Oren Nichols

A home for Oren Nichol's work online. Updates, excerpts, stories, blog posts, and more.

Wonderful stuff!

- Daniel Knauf

Montani Monitor

By Mason Jack

Rambling thoughts about politics and history in West Virginia

Vagabond's Travel Guide

By BowTiedVagabond

The Sovereign Adventurer's Vade Medum.

We Who Write

By AJ Whittier

We Who Write is a screenwriting blog that provides practical tools and resources that will help writers at all stages of their careers, from beginners to seasoned professionals.

Screenwriting for screenwriters, purveyors of the sweet science. Subscribe and learn.

- Daniel Knauf

Yer Pal Skipp

By John Skipp

NOTES ON HUMAN BEINGNESS, ART-O-TAINMENT, AND A CREATIVE LIFE WORTH LIVING

Fictionistas

By Meg Oolders

A collaborative community for fiction writers on Substack

House Inhabit

By Jessica Reed Kraus

Where pop culture deep dives mingle with quality conspiracy theories, lifestyle highlights, and trending water cooler gossip

If you enjoy your meat raw, Jessica serves it up blood rare. True crime, pop culture and gossip makes for a heady stew. Subscribe and prepare to be dazzled.

- Daniel Knauf

Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

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

The greatest living novelist and Brahmin of the Northwest, Chuck is a writer’s writer. Subscribe and be one of the cool kids.

- Daniel Knauf

Astro Poets

poetry | astrology | mystery

For those of us who believe that 1/12th of the 9 billion humans on planet Earth are having the same kind of day. Clever. Funny. Smart. Subscribe and be delighted!

- Daniel Knauf

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

I love Bari and I love what Bari loves. Don’t be a shmuck. Subscribe!

- Daniel Knauf

Glenn Greenwald

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

Considered a fascist by the left, a snowflake prog by the right, Glenn is loathed by all the right people! He’s my go-to for the straight dope!

- Daniel Knauf

John Waters Unchained

By Unchained by John Waters

The truth always has a future . . . 'The truth is like a lion, you don't have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.' — St. Augustine

If you can’t make it down to The Cat & Fiddle in Boys Town to watch him hold court, this is the next best thing.

- Daniel Knauf

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Politics ala mode. Even if you couldn’t care less, you can fool your friends into thinking you are obscenely informed. This quick read is the equivalent of a superpower!

- Daniel Knauf

Racket News

By Matt Taibbi

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.