Substacks recommended by Brian Gabriel Canever

Recommended by Brian Gabriel Canever

Home of Essay Camp and The Book Supplement.

Seeing Through Film is about cinema, television and our relationship with the visual media landscape that surrounds us.

One of the best film essayists around, whose since branched out into exploring visual art in words. When Thomas Flight's name shows up in my inbox or my feed, I click. For those of you care about what's below the surface of film.

- Brian Gabriel Canever

Austin Kleon

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

The master of creativity, curator of the best content on the internet for curious weirdos and artists. I wouldn't still be writing online if it weren't for his "Steal Like an Artist" trilogy.

- Brian Gabriel Canever

Chris Arnade Walks the World

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

Volumes.

By Matthew Morgan

Volumes is about the places where books and life overlap. Words happen here.

The New Fatherhood

By Kevin Maguire

"Like one big group text with other guys fumbling their way through fatherhood." — Esquire

The Hurst Review

By Josh Hurst

Adventures in listening.

I wish I could write about music, across so many epochs and genres, as thoroughly and descriptively as Josh Hurst does. If you love discovering new music, he's got the recs!

- Brian Gabriel Canever

Hello, Writer!

By Linda Caroll

A place for beautiful words, gentle humanity and people who love the art of writing

Between Frames

By Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Through the lens of cinema and personal storytelling, Between Frames is about finding wisdom in the pauses, the silences, and the in-between moments that define how we live, work, and connect with the places and stories around us.

Elaine is one of the most human storytellers working—an artist who could've sold out but stayed independent to remain truer to the people she documents and be uncompromised in her art. And if you ignore that, she was nominated for an Oscar. So go and subscribe. Now.

- Brian Gabriel Canever

Lauren Orr

Take a look at my personal thoughts and other adventures!

Great, honest writing by a young bibliophile. It'll remind you what it was like to be in your early 20s fighting to stay curious and find joy in an increasingly fast and frightning world.

- Brian Gabriel Canever

STORIES TALK GOOD

By Sam

"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense." - Mark Twain

Funny, visual writing that is like chicken soup for the Appalachian soul. Sam is the campfire storyteller in the computer. I love every tale he tells.

- Brian Gabriel Canever

SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB

By Social Media Escape Club

Break up 💔 with social media

I find myself frequently referencing Seth's Substack to my college writing students, Millennial parent friends who are struggling with the balance between analog and digital life, and anyone else who feels trapped but yearns to be free of the addictive and hollow nature of today's social media. This is a weekly source of encouragement as I navigate my own journey of working smartly as a creator in the digital age.

- Brian Gabriel Canever

Narratively

Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity.

First-person essays about things you can (and cannot) imagine experiencing. One of the best platforms I've found for discovering new voices and teaching students to write narrative.

- Brian Gabriel Canever

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

A place for those of us who want to feel like we're digging through our grandparent's old letters buried in a cigar box in their closet—except our grandparents are Kurt Vonnegut and Flannery O'Connor.

- Brian Gabriel Canever