Substacks recommended by Deborah Copaken

Recommended by Deborah Copaken

A weekly journal about writing my first novel outside the School for Good & Evil.

Soman is not only brilliant, he’s one of the kindest humans I’ve ever met. He also saved me during a very dark time in my life. I can never properly thank him, but I can recommend his amazing substack. And I guess that’s a small start.

- Deborah Copaken

Consider the Spider with Julie Metz

For a lesson in taking your time to do a task with care, consider the spider.

Julie is a brilliant writer.

- Deborah Copaken

Elevate Everything

By Suze Yalof Schwartz

Fashion & Wellness Pioneer, Suze Yalof Schwartz, helps you elevate everything, from your home to your brain. SYS shares tips drawn from her decades as a fashion expert, as well as her experience founding the world's first drop in meditation studio.

Lee Woodruff

Speaker-Author-Executive Media Trainer

Lee is one of those women who supports other women, particularly women writers, and she's also a huge force for good in the world. I admire her enormously, everything she is and does.

- Deborah Copaken

Mutual

By Ginny Hogan

musings on social media, sobriety, and really anything else I find interesting

Samantha Bee

By Plan Bee

Plan Bee is my weekly newsletter and source for all hard-hitting insights on women's health, pop culture distractions, recipes, and blazers, of course.

The Golden Hour: climate, children, mental health

By Anya Kamenetz

The Golden Hour is a newsletter about thriving and caring for others on a rapidly-changing planet.

13 Tons of Love

By Lyn Swett Miller

An ongoing visual 'conversation' in which a mid-life photographer explores the wonders of transformation and renewal at the convergence of compost, climate & creativity.

Lyn is doing deeply artistic work with compost, words, and photos

- Deborah Copaken

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

The Opposite of Addiction

By Julie Merberg

If you love someone who struggles with addiction, take a deep breath and read this newsletter. I get it, and I've got you!

For every parent dealing with an addicted child, this publication is for you.

- Deborah Copaken

Debby's Substack: What to Believe

By Debby Waldman-What To Believe

My memoir, What to Believe, is about secrets, suicide, and the power of denial. Each week I'll publish another chapter. Between chapters, I'll write about mental health, grief, resilience, and hope.

The Nonlinear Life

By Bruce Feiler

A newsletter about navigating life's ups and downs. We're all going through transitions, let's master them together. Life | work | family | meaning

My personal Substack

A weekly newsletter about Star Wars, Video Games, Video Game novels, and adjacent topics.

Shaved Meats, Piled High

By Laura Lippman

Blatant self-promotion for my novels because I never want to have a real job again. But, hey, it's only monthly and it's free.

The Privilege to Feel

By Stephanie Land

Stephanie Land is the New York Times bestselling author of MAID and CLASS. She has the unexpected day job of a public speaker and continues to write about and advocate for survivors and people who parent under the poverty line.

She is amazing.

- Deborah Copaken

Beyond Neoliberalism

By Judith Barish

Rethinking the economy, dismantling inequality, promoting fairness, plus personal reflections on my life

Judith is brilliant.

- Deborah Copaken

Invisible Women

By Caroline Criado Perez

Keeping up with the gender data gap (and whatever else takes my fancy).

Barney's Rubble

By Vincenzo Barney

Literature, history and politics with a dash of Hitchens, a sprinkle of Vidal and a whole lot of rubble.

Nick is brilliant.

- Deborah Copaken

The Grudge Report

By Bess Kalb

Scribbling into the void!

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum

Home of The Unspeakable Podcast. Plus new writing from Meghan Daum!

Brain Health Kitchen

By Annie Fenn

A food lover's guide for taking care of your brain.

With every post, I learn something about brain health and food.

- Deborah Copaken

Ground Truths

By Eric Topol

Facts, data, and analytics about biomedical matters.

Full Stack Family Medicine

By Bertie Bregman

Dispatches from the Front and Back Ends of Primary Care

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

yogafolk

By Erica Morton Magill

a place for practice people.

Ask E. Jean

By E. Jean Carroll

Tormented? Driven Witless? Whipsawed by Confusion? Ask E. Jean is the longest currently-running advice column in American publishing.

Liana’s Newsletter

By Liana Finck

A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things.

Magic + Loss

By Virginia Heffernan

Tech and politics for English majors.

The Vajenda

By Dr. Jen Gunter

Imagine a Venn diagram with overlapping circles labeled: Medical Facts, Feminism, and Fire. You've arrived at their intersection.

FIN: The Fast Forward on Fintech

By Holly Sraeel

FIN features must-know news, analysis, research, and commentary for and about fintech leaders, innovative companies and the funding behind them (formerly James Ledbetter's FIN).

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 🥗

The TueNight Social

By TueNight

A grab-bag of Gen-X goodies: midlife stories, pop culture, and a community for grown-ass women

Margit has been doing this long before the advent of Substack. She's a pioneer and she is brilliant.

- Deborah Copaken

Laetitia@Work

By Laëtitia Vitaud

The future of work, with a feminist perspective

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

a newsletter

By Alison Roman

recipes, stories and unsolicited advice from alison roman

On Substack

By Substack Writers

Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.

Ladyparts

Recommended by Deborah Copaken