23 Newsletter Writers on Their Favorite Newsletters

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Newsletters these days are a vast sea, and your inbox is but a small vessel. Amid the current boom, discerning recommendations are a blessing. Here are 23 prominent sletter slingers with weird, beautiful, funny, and jealousy-inspiring picks.

The Audacity, by Roxane Gay, is a favorite, and not just because she’s my friend and pod partner. Roxane turned her newsletter into a platform, which feels more collaborative than the newsletter genre. She highlights new writers, champions transparency, and builds community. I also recommend The Plug, by Sherrell Dorsey. It’s a weekly brief with really sharp analysis on technology by a Black woman tech pro and with a racial-justice lens. It is data driven and accessible and smarter than 96 percent of all mainstream tech reporting out there.” —Tressie McMillan Cottom (essaying)

“I’d love to recommend David Davis, a newsletter that was originally just about people named David but has since expanded to cover bad dads, fucking your friends, feeling “valid,” and David Hyde Pierce, a long-standing personal interest. It’s charming but not precious, thoughtful, funny, often hot, and cuts through a great deal of treacle.” —Danny Lavery (The Chatner)

“I have a long list of my favorite newsletters on the Tabs page, but if I had to pick one that people probably don’t already know about, it would be Kyle Chayka and Daisy Alioto’s Dirt. It’s loosely about