Substack Is Where Writers Go to Be Weird

What is an author without an editor? Look to Substack for your answer. You’ll find the novelist Garth Greenwell reflecting on a single paragraph from James Baldwin’s Another Country for 3,500 words; Fuccboi author Sean Thor Conroe on “why Faulkner is goated”; a long post by Joyce Carol Oates consisting almost entirely of snapshots of her cats, Zanche and Lilith; and one by early-aughts alt-lit writer Tao Lin photographed alongside various animals including a camel, a lizard, and a dog named Binky.