American Orphan

Strategic child and family policy intelligence. Separating signal from noise.

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A newsletter about experimentation, connection, and how to find more creativity in daily life.

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

Books and other stuff.

A newsletter about creative practice by a fiction writer; awakening, inspiration, psychology, healing, sobriety, motherhood, and grief. I promise, it's all connected.

If culture is a reflection of society's soul, then this substack is an exorcism.

From the manosphere to the atmosphere. What's wrong with men? Why don't they believe in climate change? And how are we going to fix this mess?

Writing from journalist, Christine Kenneally, about science, history, trauma, mystery and the world of “Ghosts of the Orphanage”.

adoption politics

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

Dispatches from a novel-writing, book-guzzling, anxiety-riddled, overly-sincere, melancholic-optimist

Craft essays and criticism on writing, books, and fat liberation from the author of Housemates, Fat Swim, and The Third Rainbow Girl.

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

A critical review of the beauty industry prioritizing people, not products.

Occasional musings and writings about art by Grace Byron. Cover Image: Greer Lankton

Monthly commentary on history, climate change, political tom-foolery, literature, and the media from the author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (out January 14th, 2025 on Pantheon).

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

@jennygzhang on culture, media, the internet, and more, approximately once a month