Chortle is a short-form humor newsletter by comedy writer Greg Nix with rotating contributors, mixing personal anecdotes and witty takes on everyday life and cultural absurdities. Readers get brief jokey essays and lists, such as riffs on baseball playoffs, rainy-day activities and modern tech frustrations.
Website: https://www.chortle.blog
A Substack of comic literary and historical writing, including modernized retellings of classics like Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods, rankings of oddities such as London livery company mottos, and curated archival finds like children's Rorschach responses. Readers get witty, erudite essays and humor pieces, with occasional housekeeping notes about subscription pricing.
A personal essay newsletter by a freelance writer whose work appears in outlets like The New York Times, Esquire and The Guardian. Each issue is a funny, observational piece of creative nonfiction about home life, family, aging and daily rituals.
Garrison Keillor shares humorous personal essays on aging, writing, city life and memories of small-town America, including archival Lake Wobegon monologues. Readers get gentle observational comedy and wry reflections in his familiar storytelling voice.
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