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Marc Stein

Marc’s career as an NBA reporter has spanned more than 30 seasons and writing for the New York Times. Subscribers gain access to a weekly extravaganza of NBA coverage, plus a community immersed in a league that takes zero days off.

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Stained Page News

Paula Forbes has been a professional cookbook critic for more than 10 years. Her Substack covers the cookbook publishing industry and features recipes, interviews, and other opportunities to “geek out about cookbooks.”

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The Drip

Nestled in the “sweet, gooey center at the intersection of hip hop and art history,” Joel Gay Fellowship award-winning writer Elspeth Michaels takes you down into a rabbit hole of tracing sampled tracks and realizing visual puns, to discover how deep those connections go.

By Elspeth Michaels · Launched a month ago

The Fifth Column (A Podcast)

Media veterans Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch host The Fifth Column podcast, a weekly show examining the “screeching partisans and language-policing fanatics” in contemporary journalism.

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Grace Rother’s Newsletter

Unravelling the concepts behind art, quilt-making, and writing: Grace Rother looks at “women’s work” through a queer, non-binary lens.

Launched 5 months ago · $7/month

Radicle

This plant-based publication from activist and gardener Sui Searle highlights fresh voices and perspectives on gardening and horticultural history.

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