Recommended by Naomi Kanakia
Because reading alone is overrated. My minor obsessions curated as book lists, and what to read now from the Executive Director, Tucson Festival of Books🌵. All views my own.
I like Abra's taste--she reads mainstream literary and commercial books mostly, and she writes about them in a thoughtful way
Pseudonymous contemporary upmarket fiction. Bildungsromans, romance, humor and local color. Occasional essays on themes relating to the fiction.
A great story writer, and a key link in the Substack fiction community. If you want to know what the platform's native fiction writers are doing, he's a must-follow.
"The funniest philosopher on Substack" - Henry Oliver | "Sharp and witty, with great humor always underlain by an earnest desire to figure things out." - Justin Smith-Ruiu
This Substack is by, I think, a PhD in Philosophy. It is absolutely wild--uses very silly thought experiments to explicate philosophical principles.
Enthusiasms for the best in graphic literature + Q&As with their makers + SHOULD WE BUY A GUN? a graphic novel about a couple, their country, and the gun debate aimed to help heal our polarized divide & now ENNEAGRAM SUPERHEROES comics and coaching.
Reviews backlist graphic novels that have a particular seriocomic sensibility that I, personally, really find matches my own taste
