Recommended by Peak Notions with Laura Kennedy
As I Was Saying captures the feeling that reading magazines used to create, but with less ultimately exclusionary gloss and aspiration and much more relatable, comforting and gritty reality. Reading As I Was Saying feels like being in the company of a friend you could trust with your secrets (and in a world on fire, we need more of that).
Few writers can generate the sense of clarity, humour and constructive anger in the darkness that Auslander does. He is the sort of writer I will read regardless of the topic he's covering, rendering anything he touches interesting simply because of how he looks at it.
Tom Cox's writing brings the reader to a profound understanding of human experience through biting humour, technical mastery and a delicious blend of the absurd and the pragmatic. He is almost obscenely talented.
Farrah is a rarity - a highly-respected and successful legacy media figure who does not write in deference to or fear of consensus. Her writing explores topics like motherhood, body image and feminism with radical honesty and openness.
I learn something astonishing and fascinating every time I read Mike's Substack. He brings a joyous curiosity to being alive that can be eroded by life, age, and consecutive tax returns. His writing invigorates the reader and makes them feel curious and engaged in the way we all did as children.