American Orphan

A newsletter about experimentation, artists, creativity, loneliness, and connection.

An occasional newsletter on writing, revision, and reading. Filled with many little happies (and sads, okay) and recommendations along the way.

A newsletter about the writing life, books, creative inspiration, wellness, psychology, motherhood and motherloss, grief, wonderings on the afterlife, and makeup reviews. I promise, it's all connected.

"Life is too important a thing to ever talk seriously about it." --Vera, or The Nihilists. Weekly recs in bad taste, bad taste only!!

Little essays and things about creativity, parenting, science, and maybe occasionally basketball.

Updates about "Ghosts of the Orphanage" (Public Affairs, US; Hachette, Australia), and a mix of history, crime, science, mystery

The Culture We Deserve

adoption politics

We're here to talk about books and do a little shit-talking.

Emi Nietfeld, former software engineer turned writer, dissects her successes, failures, and shenanigans for your learning and entertainment.

jo shares her passions with you, the reader, in case you should also become passionate about those passions.

Irregularly timed dispatches from my travels in the world of adoption

Craft essays and criticism on writing, books, and fat liberation

reading and recipe recommendations and ruminations

rantings and ravings about b00ks i like and dislike, articles i write and read, and whatever else i feel like, at totally irregular intervals

Musings on motherhood, culture, success, writing, and women ~having it all~ delivered from my elder millennial perch.

I write about the things that bring us together and drive us apart: our communities, poverty, equity, disability, addiction, food, foster care, family and family separation.

The world's first Beauty publication! (Everything else is just about appearance.)

Writing, books, art. Kinship, broadly construed. Advocate for acknowledging tough family histories honestly, open-heartedly, and with imagination.

Essays, criticism, and interviews on food, culture, and media sent out on Monday morning. Paid subscribers receive additional posts on Fridays and have access to commenting, the recipe archive, and more.

About books, TV, movies, and higher etiquette. Also God sometimes. Also Taylor Swift.