Substacks recommended by Caroline Smrstik

Recommended by Caroline Smrstik

Living Elsewhere

By Gregory Garretson

Outside perspectives on the world, with all its craziness and beauty.

A Word About...

By Benjamin Dreyer

Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.

Reading Benjamin Dreyer is an education and a delight.

- Caroline Smrstik

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

A writer, a thinker, a wandering soul. I've never been able to decide if I love Elif Shafak's novels or her essays more.

- Caroline Smrstik

5 Big Ideas by Jen Hitze

5 Big Ideas by Jen Hitze is newsletter about intelligence, intuition, and self-improvement. 5 Big Ideas reaches thousands of readers across the globe each week.

The Recovering Line Cook

By Wil Reidie

Recipes, techniques and stories from a British restaurant cook living in Finland.

Wil Reidie has also made his home in a different culture and language, and writes eloquently about that (and cooking, and Finland, and recipes, and life).

- Caroline Smrstik

The Villager

By Tom Cox

New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

Evocative writing with a strong sense of place. And Tom Cox does it his own way.

- Caroline Smrstik

SubMakk

By Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

Rebecca Makkai shares generously about her experience as an author and practicing her craft. She is also really funny, has an excellent eye for Zillow and for absurdity in general.

- Caroline Smrstik

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Joyful cookery, a broad definition of salad, and well-written. With Emily Nunn, my Salad Days will never be over.

- Caroline Smrstik

The Cosmopolitan Globalist

By Claire Berlinski

Edited by essayist Claire Berlinski, this is Substack's top forum for the discussion of international news among readers and writers, around the world, who are concerned about the future of liberal democracy and the gathering storm of global war.

You should expect more from your news, like a view of the world that is not penned in Manhattan. Claire Berlinski and The Cosmopolitan Globalist deliver.

- Caroline Smrstik