A Bakersfield writer's Ghost newsletter, now memorialised after the author's reported death in 2025, with later issues offering wry personal essays, comedy-writing history and a shared magazine feature. It reads as a mix of dark humour, self-deprecating asides and promotional notices.
Website: https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/
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.
Duffel Blog publishes satirical news articles that parody U.S. military life, the Pentagon and national politics in the style of a wire-service report. Readers get absurdist, darkly comic takes on current defense and foreign policy events.
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