Substacks recommended by Adam Nathan

Recommended by Adam Nathan

A collection of the finest newsletters with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, with special love given to the under 500 subscriber stacks out there.

Notes from Treatment

By Anonymous

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

Enfant Terrible

By Remy Bazerque

Spleens, sins, and dad-related exhaustings from an award-winning writer/director, currently avoiding work on a screenplay.

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

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, A Memoir In 65 Postcards, The Recovery Diaries, In Judgement Of Others, This Writing Life, Spotlight

The Queen.

- Adam Nathan

Inner Life

By Joshua Doležal

An open conversation about the life of the mind.

A bona-fide literary salon. Twice a week. You never know what you're going to get, but it's going to be good. This will grow. Get in early.

- 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, every Friday

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

- Adam Nathan

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

Jovino Santos Neto - Writing from the Heart of Music

Music, Nature and Life.

Grammy-nominated and insanely talented musician, but much more than accolades from a committee in Beverly Hills. Something deeply joyful and generous will be found here. Have a listen.

- 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

Castalia

By Sam Kahn

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

The smart guy I was intimidated by in college (through no fault of his own.)

- 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

An authentic look at the many dimensions of wealth—including class, capitalism, and generational privilege

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

Slack Tide by Matt Labash

By Matt Labash

Taking life as it comes, not necessarily in that order

Cantankerous, irreverent and funny in a completely American way – and just sentimental enough to make the whole thing work.

- Adam Nathan

The Common Reader

By Henry Oliver

Essays for interesting people about talent, literature, and biography. "One of my favourite Substacks." Helen Lewis

Remember your first wide-eyed day in college? Henry Oliver is the guy you thought was going to be teaching all of your classes.

- Adam Nathan