Recommended by Jenn Pike
poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video
Sherman Alexie was always held up as an example of a great writer as I was earning my degree in creative writing at University of Washington. I admit there is a sense of awe for me that he and I are both on Substack. And his writing is just as good now as it was then.
Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.
I love reading the slices of people's lives they choose to share.