Substacks recommended by Susie Bright’s Journal

Recommended by Susie Bright’s Journal

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Honolulu Blotter

By Scott Kikkawa

Vintage crimes in Territorial Honolulu and peripherally-related ephemera.

Ottolenghi

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipes, ideas and behind the scenes at Ottolenghi. Fresh off the grill or straight from the oven, topped with a sprinkle of dukkah or a spoonful of chilli sauce.

YO is a beautiful, attentive writer. His international embrace, the people’s culture of food, is a tonic to the weary and hungry heart.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Today in Fascism

By Judith Levine

A daily chronicle of the U.S.'s descent into authoritarianism and of the movements that are resisting it.

Judith Levine is a veteran maestro at calling the daily news like it is, with peerless historical vantage points.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Open Secrets Magazine

Open Secrets is an online magazine and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep "secret." Contact Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel at opensecretsmag at gmail.com

Confessions, dicey ones, about situations right under our nose that everyone is afraid to talk about.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Jon Bailiff

Drawing, Painting, Climate/Art/Change, Conflict Art

This is my lover and BFF. He is sui generis. Art art art

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Psychiatry at the Margins

By Awais Aftab

Exploring critical, philosophical, and scientific debates in psychiatric practice and the psy-sciences

Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter

Non-fiction horror stories. Politics, history, travel.

Our Oracle, Our Athena, Our Walt Whitman. Sarah is our poet warrior on the road like Kerouac never dreamed.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Girls of a Certain Age

By Kim France

Style advice, shopping picks, pop culture, and opinion for over-40 women and the over-40-curious, from former Sassy staffer and Lucky Magazine founding editor in chief Kim France.

Okay, listen up, style babes. Kim France was the editor of Lucky Magazine. Need I say more?! Her taste is TO DIE FOR. Her writing unerring. Welcome to the fashion intelligentsia.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Ijeoma Oluo: Behind the Book

Writing, life, and writing life

The Dworkin Report

By Scott Dworkin

Insight into national politics and elections from a seasoned and fearless independent journalist, delivered to your inbox daily so you can stay inspired and informed—while you push back on Trump and corporate media.

Throw out your Xanax, quit the pain pills. Scott is here with the true tonic: accurate and inspiring reporting on how we are NOT going to take this lying down

- Susie Bright’s Journal

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Emily is funny and tasty and unerring in her seasonal aptitude testing. She just “gets it”— beautiful aesthetic, beautiful writing. Yum.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

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By Default Friend

An emotional scrapbook of the Internet.

Science and tech writing, from people who write like poets— and think like artists.

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Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Did I try the Cox Diet? Hell, yeah. You could read nothing but Heather every day, and be informed than most of North America. Her steady gaze and unshakeable eye on the ball is what we’re all craving.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Cocktails With Suderman

By Peter Suderman

The home bartender's guide. Tips, tricks, techniques, and recipes. A new edition most every Friday, and sometimes in between.

Does cocktail history and innovation make you giddy with excitement? Me too. Peter is our writerly comrade in all beverage contemplations.

- Susie Bright’s Journal

Ken Klippenstein

No-nonsense reporting on the U.S. national security state and politics.

Ken will listen with the most extraordinary ears, and find out the truth from sources others ignore at their peril. Superb political analysis.

- Susie Bright’s Journal