Kate Chronicles

Ahoy! I'm Mandrake Pan, Author, Arcanologist, & Man-About-Town. I Am Also a Collector & Organiser of Many Hidden Mysteries & Peculiar Phenomena, Some of Which You Can Find Here!

The personal Substack of the world's greatest living writer. Honest.

The creative life, and what it means to be a woman making slow, chewy art

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

I write about a smorgasbord of subjects, always with a dash of hope. if you love reading about humanity, literature, writing, cinema, video games, and other related and unrelated stuff, let's connect.

Short Stories, A Memoir In 65 Postcards, The Recovery Diaries, In Judgement Of Others, This Writing Life, Soundscape Stories

An old woman's weekly observations on all kinds of things, including but not limited to rants at the world's injustices, from a faraway land.

Life through the lens of a curious vegan, absurdly optimistic creative. Centeredness & Clarity through creativity in the way we see things.

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

Weighty matters, COVID, the next thing

The 10 most useful and inspiring links we've clicked on this week

Emails from Orwell - a project from The Orwell Foundation

A delightful weekly newsletter that is sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant & often full of useful recommendations & weirdly enchanting ideas

Harmonizing Science, Faith, and Life

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

A weekly newsletter of mental health musings from a New York Times best-selling author who has a master's in psychology and has been mentally ill since childhood!

A place to explore the way the short story works.

mixed feelings is a newsletter and obsessively-online community that deals in all things existential (and, in some cases, welcome respite from that). Subscribe, for all your multitudes.

Meditations on living with hope, skill, and patience. Published every M, W, F

Eight curated literary submission opportunities every other Sunday for all genres.

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

Seeking spiritual strength in the mess

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

emotional messes & intimate conversations

Hot takes on cool records.

Stories for people who enjoy humor with a side of humanity and a dash of insight

Fiction writing exercises, craft essays, and reading recommendations from Matt Bell, author of APPLESEED and REFUSE TO BE DONE. Publishes monthly.

Russian psychedelia in exile 🍄

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.

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