The TueNight Social

My work is grounded in 1980s Bushwick, Brooklyn, a neglected Black and Brown neighborhood that I left when I was 13. I return to my home hood in my stories to make visible the invisible, & chronicle my life in the tradition of Esmeralda Santiago.

Letters about life in the middle.

Life advice for spirited women: parenting, family, midlife, books, careers, fashion, beauty, things to make you smile.

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

One small step for woman, one giant leap for...never mind. Enough with the baby steps.

The reader is my notebook

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Global feminist resistance to patriarchal fuckery

Change. Loss. Grief. These are some of the blanks we face in life. And somehow, we find ways to fill them in.

An inclusive newsletter sharing, dishing and contemplating the evolving world of midlife women's health news, opinion and essays. We might not have all the answers, but we try to figure it all out.

Advice from Heather Havrilesky, author of Ask Polly, formerly of New York Magazine

I’m not good at small talk. Dispatches from my evolving brain, spirit and body.

Robert Christgau's weekly newsletter. Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.

Stirring the pot, with meditations, musings, recipe-lettes, and lots of crumbs thrown in. From longtime food writer Kim O'Donnel.

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

In which Margaret & Sophie & Karen boss the Internet with impeccable discernment & insouciant charm. Cultural recommendations & commentary every Friday evening.

Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.