The Grudge Report

Recommended by Bess Kalb

P.S. by Plum Sykes
From the desk of the Original Voguette

Butt News
By Lindy West
we're here to watch movies and talk about butts, and we have a lot of both, don't even worry about running out AT ALL

MouthBrain
By Zoë Komarin
A place for food, stories, recipes, and all my antics

The most approachable, funny, feel-good, best vibe cooking/kitchening writing/videos I have ever encountered.

• Bess Kalb

Snack Chat
a letter about appetites
Trust me on this one.

• Bess Kalb

Hung Up
By hunter harris
Movies, tv, the celebrity industrial complex, and personal pop culture obsessions. Delivered twice a week to your inbox, written by Hunter Harris.

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. www.lianafinck.com

The Chatner
By Daniel Lavery
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.

The Sharpening with Amber Tamblyn
Creative practices for political catharsis.

The Best Bit
By Clare de Boer
Notes on appetite and recipes to delight it

The Audacity.
By Roxane Gay
Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Big Salad
By Joanna Goddard
Life advice, fun finds, and dating gossip — from Joanna Goddard and the Cup of Jo team.

Even though I am an adult with children and a mortgage, reading Big Salad makes me feel like I'm a teenager hanging out with my cool big sister who lets me borrow her clothes and copy her makeup and dissect her conversations with her boyfriend. It's an essential service, and without it I would be simply adrift.

• Bess Kalb

Miranda July
Off the cuff MJ writing/videos/picts/audio for paid subscribers and an ongoing All Fours Group Chat for everyone (not a book club! A place to talk about your own life.)

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith
A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Bright Spots
By Chris Duffy
Every Saturday, comedian Chris Duffy sends out a true story to make you laugh and then includes links to 1 great thing, 1 funny thing, and 1 interesting thing.

The Green Spoon
By Greta and Fanny
Cooking simple + delicious food for young kids and their exhausted parents.

Abortion, Every Day
By Kylie Cheung @ Abortion
All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

Wait, What? with Aparna Nancherla
A newsletter for all who feel consistently "out of it" (fine, everyone else too)

Jacqueline Novak, Quality Notions
Comedian of GET ON YOUR KNEES, the Emmy-nominated "poetic treatise on the blow job," now streaming on Netflix. "Brilliant" - NY Times. Author, HOW TO WEEP IN PUBLIC: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows. Co-host of Poog.

How lucky are we to get to read whatever my favorite living comic is thinking on a given day.

• Bess Kalb

Emma Straub's Newsletter
Bestselling novelist and bookstore owner Emma Straub has a lot to say, and this is where to read it.

Crème de la Crème
By Aminatou Sow
A delightful newsletter featuring things Aminatou Sow is reading, obsessing over and laughing at.