Adventures In "Journalism" by Sari Botton

Open Secrets is an online magazine for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep "secret." Contact Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel at opensecretsmag at gmail.com

Essays on recovery, creative practice, relationships, and the bold moves that liberate us.

If Kurt Vonnegut had a podcast, it would sound like this.

Dispatches on writing, editing, and navigating the vortex of publishing

Everyday life and music from the original Mod Housewife

writing, ceramics, occasional horse content, and a lot of feelings

The Handbasket is 100% independent journalism by writer and reporter Marisa Kabas. It can now be found at https://www.thehandbasket.co/

My work is grounded in 1980s Bushwick, Brooklyn, a neglected Black and Brown neighborhood that I left when I was 13. I return to my home hood in my stories to make visible the invisible, & chronicle my life in the tradition of Esmeralda Santiago.

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry by an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

On writing, craft, worry & joy.

How Eric Avery and Dave Navarro made music after Jane's Addiction broke up

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

A newsletter for people who like the work of (the real) Sarah Miller.

One small step for woman, one giant leap for...never mind. Enough with the baby steps.

Tormented? Driven Witless? Whipsawed by Confusion? Ask E. Jean is the longest currently-running advice column in American publishing.

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

The reader is my notebook

That was tough. Let's go for a walk.

Music and life as a listener in the 1990s

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

A critical review of beauty culture from “the woman the beauty industry fears” (the Sunday Herald).

Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive twice weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.

Slice-of-life comics by Edith Zimmerman.

Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.

An award-winning newsletter centering immigrants with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness and encourage storytelling

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)

Essays, criticism, and interviews on food culture, media, and politics sent out on Monday morning. Paid subscribers receive additional posts on Fridays and have access to commenting, the recipe archive, and more.

Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)

photographs enthusiasms essays speculation interviews conjecture

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.