Substacks recommended by Karin Lynn Carlson

Recommended by Karin Lynn Carlson

The Metropolitan Review

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

Literature is important. And the landscape is changing. This new lit-mag is exciting.

- Karin Lynn Carlson

Orientations

By Becky Vartabedian

Short notes and orientations to my work and writing in the world.

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

fellow chewer of words

- Karin Lynn Carlson

StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz

By Junot Díaz

“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.

The Lo-Fi Gospel Minute

By Tripp Hudgins

Brief reflections, essays, and the occasional podcast about faith, spirituality, and religion from a progressive Southern white male perspective.

my heart's dear brother. For those with a Christian bent to their soul mulls, Tripp is the best.

- Karin Lynn Carlson

Gristle and Bone

Recommended by Karin Lynn Carlson