The Cosmic Cheeto
Rafael Frumkin, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, Kat Rosenfield, Leah Sottile, Jena Martin, Ali Kriegsman, Gila Pfeffer, Sarah Flocken, Alexandra Hidalgo, Kevin Sampsell, Rachel Haack, LMFT, Brandon, Brodie Crellin| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Karmic Cycles of Beef
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In Buddhist philosophy, saṃsāra is a cycle of life, death, and rebirth with no beginning. It’s characterized by suffering stemming from desire: the imposi...
Trauma Jocks
Should I start a new essay series called Untimely Film Criticism? Should you conquer your fears and publish a series of your own? Only time will tell ;)
Discussed below: The Odyssey, The Devil Wears Prada, the social currency of trau...
Economic Uncertainty and the Cult-Hopping Millennial
I knew Sarah Flocken and I had some novelistic themes in common, but I didn’t know how many! If you liked Confidence, then you’ll love her hilarious and smart debut, Be Well.
Be Well follows the story of Ann Ward, a school-smart twentysom...
Sex & Death, Family & Grief
Brodie Crellin’s A Sense of Occasion is a canny and intelligent debut that defies expectations — and keeps doing so long after you’ve finished reading it.
I was sold on the whip-smart dialogue (think what Amy Sherman-Palladino would sound...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Wife-in-progress, ex-academic, sapphic saltwater sweetie. Novelist: THE COMEDOWN (2018), CONFIDENCE (2023). Short stories: BUGSY (2024). Essays & criticism in The Point, Believer, NYT, Washington Post, Granta, &c. Post-postmodern, unoptimized.
Feminine Chaos co-host, Opinion Editor, The Canadian Jewish News
Culture writer, novelist, and podcaster. On Twitter at @katrosenfield.
Author of Blazing Eye Sees All and When the Moon Turns to Blood. Host of Bundyville, Two Minutes Past Nine, Burn Wild, Hush. Freelance journalist.
I’m a pathologist who writes novels, essays and poems. My podcast is about the recovered memory movement and how we are shaped by culture. The through line is — I want to know why.
obsessed with ambition, the internet, e-commerce and myself.
I wrote a hilarious memoir about losing my parents to cancer, trying not to get cancer myself and then getting it anyway.
I write unhinged fiction for smiley people who are silently enraged (all of us). My debut novel BE WELL (Heliotrope, 2026) is out now! Come for the thoughts on my writing process, stay for the dumb puns.
I'm a Venezuelan writer, filmmaker, and the Crow Chair of English and professor at the University of Pittsburgh. I write about love, motherhood, immigration, books, TV, movies, and how to stay openhearted and optimistic despite our world’s chaos.
Kevin Sampsell is a publisher (Future Tense Books), Bookseller (Powell's), collage artist, & author of books such as I Made an Accident and Sean the Stick. New novel, Baby in the Night, just came out! He writes the substack, Susan's Eyebrows.
A therapist, writer, and mother of five exploring family, relationships, grief, growth, and what it means to live well.
Writer and professor. Guggenheim fellow. National Book Award finalist. Cherokee Nation.
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