Substacks recommended by From Life with Victoria Olsen

Recommended by From Life with Victoria Olsen

Award-winning children’s author will post excerpts from works-in-progress, reflections on writing, and stories both humorous & otherwise from personal experience.

A delight! Well-crafted personal essays rich in texture and insight.

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

A fascinating window into historical women's lives-- full of texture and detail!

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Two Houses. Two Painters. Two Parents.

By Eliza Anderson

Stories of art, feminism, grief, and Time excavated from the Soho loft where I grew up. Stories of life with my long-divorced parents, the painters Mimi Weisbord and Lennart Anderson, illustrated with their work.

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

For the close readings and long perspective in Jeffrey's insightful essays.

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Beautiful Things: Letters from Abroad

By jodi {fiftybeautifulthings}

"The world, she thought, is certainly full of beautiful things..." Letter writer. Travel lover. Lover of beautiful things.

Between the vivid photographs and well-researched travel writing, you'll feel like you're there with Jodi as she shows you around on her travels.

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Amazement Seeker

By Rona Maynard

Celebrating discovery in art, writing and the moment as it flies

Rona's voice is inimitable and her posts always illuminate something from a new angle. I look forward to each one!

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Audacious Women, Creative Lives

By Anne Boyd / Audacious Women

Inspiration from audacious, creative women in the past , plus opportunities to connect--because we're all in this together.

Anne has created a wonderfully supportive community of people thinking intentionally about where and how to live creatively.

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

Laurie shares her unique voice and vision here, generously.

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Ghost Stories

By Ruth Franklin

For people who think critically about books. An insider perspective on book publishing, writing criticism, and my biography currently in production, THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK. Also featuring an occasional group read of Israeli and Palestinian authors.

A fascinating glimpse into books and the writing life through Ruth Franklin's eyes.

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Poor Man's Feast

By Elissa Altman

The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, nature, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).

Writing and food artfully intermingled.

- From Life with Victoria Olsen

Wondercabinet

By Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler's Fortnightly Compendium of the Miscellaneous Diverse.

Lawrence Wechsler's wide-ranging interests and insights into art are not to be missed.

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Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

A great sampling of memoir essays from many sources, coming at you weekly

- From Life with Victoria Olsen