Substacks recommended by Adam Nathan

Recommended by Adam Nathan

For the past 8 years I’ve managed a drug and alcohol treatment center. Names and locations have been changed…

A powerful view into the existential life dramas of drug and alcohol treatment. You will not want to visit, but you will want to see. "Anonymous" is your guide.

- Adam Nathan

Coincidence Speaks

By E.T. Allen

Life is no accident, and patterns point the way

She's Gone Chilaquiles

By Anna Schott

Chips and salsa, essays, memoir, food analogies

Mirth as Medicine

By Ana Bosch

Confessions of an Opinionated Oncologist

Alannah Nathan

Weekly insights into the world of hospitality, including design, business, and sustainability.

Somewhere at the intersection of style, food, restaurateur background stories and Michelin stars. She's who I'd want to go to dinner with. She is also my daughter so I get to. So do you.

- Adam Nathan

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Death & Birds is like opening a hymnal.

- Adam Nathan

Unfixed

By Kimberly Warner

When broken is the fix.

In The Garden Of His Imagination

By David E. Perry

Where this photographer, storyteller shows and sometimes, tells...

Insane talent in the photography of the natural world, and not so shabby as a writer either. Take a peek.

- Adam Nathan

Holly Starley's Rolling Desk

Stories from the road, on connections, human and otherwise

Guardening the spheres…

By Bertus

A both hands approach to becoming panoramic…

I am not reading his work as often as I should, and you probably aren’t either. Let’s commit to fixing that.

- Adam Nathan

Eleanor’s Substack

By Eleanor Anstruther

Short stories, serialised fiction, essays and interviews.

The Queen.

- Adam Nathan

FORD KNOWS

By Mr. Troy Ford

From Award-disdaining LGBTQ+ Author, Mystic & Kook, Mr. Troy Ford | Essays, stories & peculiar tidbits for lovers of reading, writing, & sundry curiosities - basically, a fruit basket with fur, most Mondays

Mr. Funny Bone meet Mr. Tickle. Troy Ford is an unmitigated delight. Superstack him.

- Adam Nathan

Homecoming

By Julie Gabrielli

NatureStack journal, Building Hope essays, climate fiction, and my singing dog.

Catch & Release

By Ben Wakeman

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

Be about the 4,000th person to discover Ben Wakeman. Imaginative, polished, and, above all, big-hearted. You can read or listen. Substack is held up by pillars like Catch & Release.

- Adam Nathan

Feel The Rhythm

By Tommy Swerdlow

"The Rhythm" is a piggy bank to hold my pennies. The phrase comes from Cool Runnings a movie I wrote thirty years ago.

Life Litter

By Jill

No brand, no message. What’s left

Put away your pens.

- Adam Nathan

Songs That Saved Your Life

Rock history written from a queer lens.

One of my favorite weird and wonderful niches on Substack. "Rock history from a queer lens." Whether you think it is for you or not – it is.

- Adam Nathan

Mary Tabor "Only connect ..."

By <Mary L. Tabor>

The arts, books, movies, all things literary, a course: Write it! How to get started, The Writing Life, Write it! course, (Re)Making Love: a memoir in serial chapters, Who by Fire: a novel in serial chapters

A master of the intimate and confessional.

- Adam Nathan

Stunning Sentences

By Nina Schuyler

Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences

She makes me want to write a better sentence.

- Adam Nathan

Sparks from Culture by David Roberts

By david roberts

A rare opportunity to gain a perspective about wealth, class, and capitalism from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency

Michael Acoustic

A newsletter for beginning guitarists and musicians!

And now for something completely different. Someday when I've practiced enough, I hope Michael will let me play guitar with him. A weekly class in acoustic guitar and pictures of Mika the cat.

- Adam Nathan

Snaps

By Deirdre Lewis

sketches, flash fiction, musings and observations

I wrote a whole article talking about how great she is: "Three Substack Recommendations." I'm not sure I need to make much more of a case here. Go.

- Adam Nathan