Writing About Reading

Exploring ideas across culture, technology, society, life, and creativity in a weekly newsletter and occasional long-form essays. Studying scenes to make sense of the world.

Where fiction and philosophy like to hang out and talk about maybe starting a band.

fiction craft, publishing demystification, weird books, other things

Highlighting the best journalism about cryptocurrency.

On culture, media, and motherhood

Bird photos, notes about reading, and the odd essay from the novelist Caleb Crain

Bite-sized book reviews by distinguished and engaging writers, direct to readers‘ in boxes. Editor Ann Kjellberg is a multi-decade veteran of The New York Review of Books and founder of the literary magazine LIttle Star