The Cosmic Cheeto
Rafael Frumkin, Maria Kuznetsova, Kevin Sampsell, Alexandra Hidalgo, Kat Rosenfield, Jena Martin, Sarah Flocken, Gila Pfeffer, Brodie Crellin, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, Ali Kriegsman| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 160 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Braided Essay That Brought Me to Australia
If you know me at all — whether IRL or parasocially through this blog — then you know I’m a dreamer. Stubbornly insistent upon an interpretation of reality that isn’t everything’s been going to shit and always will.
Sometime after the las...
Sally Rooney’s Church of Love
Sex and striving for the millennial love fiend
This is part two in a three-part series. Read part one here.
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“Ambitious Nude Picnics with Ants.” Fernando Botero, 1982....
Sometimes you meet a bodhisattva
Rest in peace and beauty, Dolly!
Dolly in 1978
I know I’m an American because I feel annoyed and even a little scandalized when I’m running errands and someone else makes their pain my business. I want to stand alone in the self-checkout...
You Have Not Lapsed. You Are Not Fallen.
Here’s a Monday essay to keep you on your toes!
If you’re seeing this, I’m back from the antipodes and my Office Hours are open.
I have a friend, Steve,1 who assures me he is uniquely cursed.
Lately, our phone conversations have...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
A real wife’s wife. Ex-academic, ex-trans sapphic saltwater sweetie. Novels: THE COMEDOWN (2018), CONFIDENCE (2023). Short stories: BUGSY (2024). Essays & criticism in The Point, Believer, NYT, WaPo, Granta, &c. Post-postmodern, unoptimized
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.
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.
Culture writer, novelist, and podcaster. On Twitter at @katrosenfield.
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.
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.
Nice Jewish lady who's survived loss, cancer and a childhood on Staten Island. It's where my great sense of humor comes from.
Feminine Chaos co-host, Opinion Editor, The Canadian Jewish News
obsessed with ambition, the internet, e-commerce and myself.
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