Substacks recommended by Benjamin Errett

Recommended by Benjamin Errett

Short humor writing and original comics for anyone who chuckles, guffaws, snickers, hoots, or otherwise expresses mirth. New posts every weekday!

Greg's throwing all the pasta at the wall with this daily newsletter ... and much of it sticks!

- Benjamin Errett

The Bathwater

By James Braithwaite

The art and mind dribblings of James Braithwaite.

The SS Ben Hecht, by Stephen Silver

By Stephen Silver

A daily newsletter about movies and film culture, by journalist, critic, and essayist Stephen Silver

Writing about movies like a critic at a good newspaper in 1998 -- and the very name of the publication is your indication that Stephen knows what’s good

- Benjamin Errett

From the Desk of Marlowe Granados

The new home of my advice column 'Designs for Living', essays on things I adore (Drinking Alone, My First Apartment), whims, recommendations, glamour. Author of Happy Hour (2021).

Harper’s Magazine

The free, weekly features of America’s oldest general-interest monthly.

Thoughts on a Typewriter

By David Sax

Newsletter written on a Smith-Corona Galaxie 12 typewriter. No revisions. Minor copyedits. One page. One take. Thoughts on analog, digital, technology and the world, plus whatever else fills the (actual) page.

The Critical Thinker

By Ali Almossawi

Practical ideas in your inbox, about reasoning, about language, and about images. A newsletter for curious minds.

Clever explorations of thought grooves, complete with excellent illustrations, a podcast, and videos. The exact opposite of a Gish Gallop!

- Benjamin Errett

That Night in Toronto

By Michael Barclay

Music for the curious, Canadian and otherwise. Toronto live music listings.

Does anyone know Canadian music better than Michael Barclay? The answer is “Eh?” (No)

- Benjamin Errett

Honesty is the Best Probably

By John Bluff

Analog Humans in a Digital World

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

Brilliant scholarship on reading & writing presented with flair and wit. Take note!

- Benjamin Errett

Shit for Breakfast

By E. Sjule

A bi-weekly selection of drawings, comics, works in progress and behind-the-scenes from a New Yorker cartoonist doodling her way through life. Newsletter released on Monday mornings.

How About This

By Mark Dykeman

Thinking in paragraphs and paper, reflecting on knowledge and ideas both old and new with a particular interest in psychology and sociology; also featuring replies from interesting people about their creative passions. Canadian, Atlantic.

This engaging olio of interviews, observations, and articles adds up to a one-man arts section in a newspaper that ought to exist.

- Benjamin Errett

An Aging Author's Daily Diversions

By M. Louisa Locke

The daily events in the life of an older independent author of historical mysteries and near future science fiction.

An impressive author doing the work and showing how it’s done, every single day!

- Benjamin Errett

Gobbledy

By Jared Blank

Weekly dive into the language of marketing. Marketing Brew said it was "laugh-out-loud funny." (I can't promise that.) It's been called "A must-read for marketing nerds." (I think he meant "nerds" in a nice way.) New column every Wednesday.

A consistently amusing weekly measurement of the distance between the English language and software marketing copy

- Benjamin Errett

Paul Wells

Politics and culture as though they mattered.

Can one man fill the giant gaping void where Canadian journalism once lived? On most weeks, Paul Wells comes closer than anyone else.

- Benjamin Errett

Chris Arnade Walks the World

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

An insightful and frequently surprising view of places you’ve always wondered about.

- Benjamin Errett

Mind the Moss

By Miles Howard

Unusual hiking in New England

Read Max

By Max Read

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

I Might Be Wrong

By Jeff Maurer

Comedy, politics, and swearing in pretty much equal amounts.

If you think Last Week Tonight could have been an email, this newsletter proves you right.

- Benjamin Errett

Arty Har-Hars

By Myq Kaplan

favorite writings, jokes, words, thoughts, poetry, ideas, and fun units of the day, week, and/or all time

Something Good

By Mark Slutsky

Good things from Mark Slutsky.

Just what it says on the label, by the inspired creator behind Sad YouTube

- Benjamin Errett

TEXT!

By Adam Smyth

literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of 1st personness

Continually fascinating explorations of what words on paper are really saying.

- Benjamin Errett

Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

By Phoebe Maltz Bovy

All the clothes, interiors, and cultural politics of TV shows very much not of the moment.

One-of-a-kind voice that turns even the minutiae of a kitchen renovation into witty vignettes

- Benjamin Errett

The Colour | Newsletter | Lab | Community

By Toronto Ink Company

Foraged colour, found pigments and natural markings from Jason Logan the author of Make Ink.

The Commonplace

By Thomas J Bevan

Fiction and essays on the extraordinary nature of ordinary life.

An impressive collective of writers forging their own paths, together

- Benjamin Errett

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

At The End Of The Day

By AtTheEndOfTheDay

A news perspective that puts people first -- relationships, caring, social fairness and the greater good

A human take on the news, and a deep breath in email form.

- Benjamin Errett

It's Chip Zdarsky's Newsletter, Okay?

By Chip Zdarsky

your ONE STOP shop for chip tips and chipomics (chip comics)

Chip is the world's greatest detective, and I'm proud to have known him since he was a mild-mannered graphic columnist at a suburban national newspaper.

- Benjamin Errett

SHuSH, by Kenneth Whyte

By ken whyte

The world of non-fiction from Sutherland House (and beyond)

Loving books, questioning culture, supporting authors & always interesting.

- Benjamin Errett

Garbage Day

By Ryan Broderick

A newsletter about having fun online.

Imagine you accidentally throw out some valuable jokes, and by the time you realize it, they're already at the dump. Just call Ryan; he's already there, sifting through it all to find your lost USB drive.

- Benjamin Errett