Salt & Flickers
Howie GoldklangA substack (and book) about movement and longing, the strange beauty of running, and our collective search for something real. Subscribe to read for free. Paid subscribers get a signed book mailed directly!
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 63 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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LESS SCREENS, MORE SKY: The Salt & Flickers Experiment #1 is October 24th
Insta has spoken. We get it. More curated experiences. More beautiful brands. More places to buy the feeling of being outdoors.
Junker and I would rather just make the feeling.
So we’re hiking Strawberry Peak. A meditation at the top. W...
ACCESS JOURNALISM IN RUNNING IS KILLING THE WEIRDNESS THAT MAKES RUNNING.
ART PRINTS BY: ERIC JUNKER
hiiii - this article was written in Notes on my phone in pieces over the past week and knocked out in full yesterday. Then, last night, stupid NYC Marathon had to go mucking things up with their dictatorship anno...
Calling It Cringe Lets Them Off The Hook: Part 2
As I was finishing this piece on Monday night, the founder of USAL posted an Instagram story, shirtless, on a couch asking his followers “Do you guys have opinions you want to share with me?”
You can’t make this shit up.
So I sent a DM, g...
HOPE for Run Culture: LIVE. Is This the Kind of Place Running Culture Could Become?
This morning I left the morning Porkchop run and felt that all was right in the run world. I felt cool and at peace with running, whatever that means. “Don’t Play No Games That I Can’t Win” by Santigold played. Windows went down, my brain w...
Episode 27 - Scout Interviews Howie. I Was Lost. A New Way of Running, a New Way of Writing, and a Thousand Strangers Brought Me Back.
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Lately I’ve been reconnecting with people I knew before Salt & Flickers exploded into my life. The book debuted on December 9th, 2025, globally, at #1 in Running Books,...
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Screenwriter & Author of the book SALT & FLICKERS, which debuted #1 across running, poetry, art, and philosophy on Amazon. Podcast too. Founder: Silver Lake Track Club. Writing about alt run culture and other vibey things. Los Angeles.
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