Substacks recommended by Heather Havrilesky

Recommended by Heather Havrilesky

what i hear driving uber and lyft rideshare passengers around los angeles in this economy

Notorious horndogger and longtime blogger Tony Pierce drives an Uber in LA and he's got great stories to share. Even when I think one particular rider won't interest me, there's a twist, and the next thing you know, I'm crying. Ride sharing is caring!

- Heather Havrilesky

Badreads

By Lauren Hough

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

Lauren Hough is funny, honest, direct, and utterly unique.

- Heather Havrilesky

Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Cultural Pith, Terrible Secrets and Quality Rants. Two fresh original pieces and two obscure throwback articles a month, with audio performances and oil paintings for all.

Everything Cintra Wilson writes is vivid, emotionally propulsive, unselfconscious, and very funny. How do you do that?! She just added a paid subscription option. Please support this great writer!

- Heather Havrilesky

The Real Sarah Miller

A newsletter for people who like the work of (the real) Sarah Miller.

Sarah's dispatches are hilarious and weird and they make my life better. There's always something unforgettable in her posts. She's a great writer.

- Heather Havrilesky

Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

This is the home of two newsletters. Paid subscribers get Cheryl's Dear Sugar Letter monthly, plus her free newsletter several times a year, which includes her "Tells Us" author series. Free subscribers get everything but the monthly Dear Sugar Letter.

Dear Sugar showed me how gratifying and wise an advice column could be! I never would've started writing Ask Polly without reading Cheryl Strayed's writing first.

- Heather Havrilesky

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 🥗

Who wants to read about salad? I do now, thanks to Emily Nunn who is extremely entertaining and makes vegetables look far sexier than they actually are. Nah, I'm in love with veggies now thanks to Emily. Magical!

- Heather Havrilesky

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.

Daniel Lavery is brilliant and this newsletter cheers me up and makes me laugh regularly.

- Heather Havrilesky

ASK MOLLY

Recommended by Heather Havrilesky