Substacks recommended by Brock Eldon

Recommended by Brock Eldon

Daily podcasts, book clubs, and courses on the best books and authors ever.

The newsletter 35K+ monthly readers choose to talk about films. TFS connects cinema to the conversations that matter now. Weekly essays that make you the smartest voice in every party, plus regular takes from readers to chew on.

The Junk Man's Son

By New post

Short fiction about the relationship between a scrap picker and his son, addiction, recovery, and growing up blue collar.

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

SUM FLUX

By Sandolore Sykes

Welcome to SUM FLUX, a repository of extraordinary prose.

Andy Futuro

This probably isn't for you, but if it is you're going to want to subscribe right away. Science fiction, horror, and dirtbag literature.

The Metropolitan Review

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

Far From the Tree

By Martina R. Williams

Personal essays about the connection between past and present, making sense of family history in order to know myself and forgive them.

lchristopher

cathexis.

Jaap’s Substack

By Jaap's Substack

My personal Substack

Marginalia Review of Books

Magazine | Think Tank | Research University Reimagined for the Digital Age Marginalia democratizes depth and unites the separated silos of the university, arts, science, and culture into a single space of insight and learning for the public good.

School of Blue

Musings by Richard Frame

Strung Out on Plenitudes

Acquired during a liminal period of provocative confusion, it is possible that this was all misreported.

Three Hundred Tang Poems

By Hyun Woo Kim

Chinese poems from the Tang Dynasty in your inbox, every Wednesday

Pretty Thunder Poetry

Incantations, lies, memory and myth - poetic talismans, and the secret language of plants.

BIBLIOMANIA

By Dilay 𓋹

Literature, philosophy, history, mythology, theology, sociology, psychology, cinema, art, & philology.

Barbara Byar

Barbara Byar is an author and editor. Reader/Writer is her monthly newsletter with news and insights for both readers and writers.

That’s Absurd!

By Trey Hinkle

That’s Absurd! isn’t about anything; there’s poetry, fiction, and writing about trying to be a writer as a long haul trucker.

Natalia's Daydreams

By Natalia’s Daydreams

Delusional love poetry. Short stories. Autofiction. Musings on literature and life.

Vinny Reads

A newsletter providing reviews and commentary on works of literature, as well as essays, and occasional short fiction.

registry of resonance

By RZ Arzy

a free publication about art that keeps sounding after the encounter ends

Bellageist

By Derek James Kritzberg

Science Fiction shorts from the Bellageist universe. Humanity is split into two species by technology that transfers consciousness from flesh to machine. Also snarky reviews and occasionally a horror short.

The Futureness

By Morgan Beatty

Sci-fi novel in progress. A completed novel about high school violence. Short stories.

Tanjim in His Brown Study

By J.M.S. Tanjim

WARNING: THE RABID DOGS OF MY MINDSCAPE ROAM FREE HERE, UNCHAINED.

The Commonplace Book

By Brock Eldon

Essays on Books, Film, and Culture.

Hell Or Hangover

By Alex Muka

A humor & satire newsletter written by an ex(ish)-degenerate turned husband and father for readers who are tired of being bombarded with depressing shit all day. Crack a beer (or your beverage of choice). Read. And laugh.

Traces Journal

By Maya Venters

Traces Journal is a Canadian journal dedicated to promoting arts and letters engaging with the Christian tradition. We publish poetry and prose that seek traces of the divine in our midst.

Janine A. Willis

By Janine Willis

Literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry for readers and writers who value the craft.

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Fiction, mostly.

Rap Fiction

By Andrew Robert Colom

Rap's honesty about power meets fiction's craft: prose poems, flash-fiction battles, and the road to the first Rap Fiction novel.

Immigrant Hagelslag | Dispatches on Belonging Abroad

By Gillian Fletcher

Monthly letters from the gap between where you were and where you are learning to go.

Sam Rasnake

I'm a writer.

Automatic Writer

By Sean Thomas McDonnell

Horror | Noir | Speculative | Westerns

Hoedown of the Vanities

By Cameron Maxwell

Short fiction, essays, poems, and serialized fiction by Cameron Maxwell. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will."

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, art, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

Small Pressings

By Ballerini Book Press

Small Pressings opens the door to the life of a small press and literary journal.

Ruminations of a Form

By Trevor Kuether

Poetry/Prose with a philosophical, spiritual, and scientific bent. Themes of consciousness, meaning, suffering, the I, spacetime, experience, the universe of Zen. A new post every Friday (all poems for now).

Disjointed

By Hamish McKenzie (Disjointed)

Sometimes I feel like writing things, so this is where I write them.

lower midlist

By Peter Shull

Peter Shull is writing contemporary fiction.

Middle American Literature

By Caleb Caudell

Fiction and nonfiction from the Midwest

Local Hero

By Marigold

Essays on literature with a focus on rebellious writers and their work.

Garbage Notes

By Franco Amati

from the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes