Recommended by Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler
Jeffrey Streeter has lived an interesting life, all around the world. Now, he has brought it back home to write about it, in graceful prose, with sensitivity and generosity. If you subscribe, you'll have just sat down beside an interesting person you'll enjoy talking to, and you'll want to do it again.
John is a professor of English who communicates his love of literature, music, and so much more in a very accessible and engaging manner. His students are lucky to learn from his and you will be too -- plus gain access to that "personal canon" he's sharing.
Jim Trainer comes out of a poetic and writerly tradition you'll pick up on pretty quick, maybe in the press pool. He lives the life, writing it, reading it, binding it, publishing it -- poetry of hard surfaces and frank feelings and striking turns that touch. Poetry that's real and true.
Eleanor's lived a life that provides a lot to share. She's living it with intensity still, sharing small and larger moments daily in sentences to cut to the quick of experience. Read her.
Susan is a bold and penetrating critic and writer of long, deep scholarly experience, who writes on Substack in accessible and still enlightening style. She always offers something out of the ordinary.
Inner Lives, the joint Substack project of Mary Tabor, Joshua Doležal, and Sam Kahn, who each have their own distinct Stacks, is rich with the variety they each bring to it and of the guest Substackers, one each week, they invite. It's really a splendid array of arts and letters and deep thinking..
Rona Maynard is one of my favorite writers on Substack. As a writer, I admire her craft, in a sentence and in telling a personal story. As a person, I admire the acuteness of her insights and her human empathy. You'll never not enjoy reading her.
Tara is a delight as writer and thinker. She offers up little-known gems from the literary past and is always touching on the humane side or our literary passions. She'll be a welcome part of your weekly reading.
Writer, teacher, woman of love and Letters, from philo to philosophy and romcoms too, this memoirist digs into her life and learning to share in many ways. I always look forward to reading her.
David Roberts may or may not be a Bodhisattva but he's definitely a mensch. He responds to the world and examines his place in it with sensitivity and generosity and the openness to change marked by his new and developing career as a writer. He has a lot of subscribers for a reason.
I wrote somewhere that to be perceived by Diedre Lewis is to be perceived. Maybe she'll think that too great a weight of responsibility. But when she comes across people and takes them in, she sees something, a part of them and of their lives, that radiates in her prose. It's a gift she has and for her readers.
