There’s a consistent debate within the Substack community about what the actual purpose of the platform is. In my mind it’s a fairly...

Think of any daring, talented and interesting writer—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Didion, Sontag, Kerouac, Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Baldwin,...

For those of you not paying attention, Claudine Gay is the current (hopefully temporary) president of Harvard University. She’s a Black...

I’m a published writer and developmental editor; I’ve been doing both for around 14 years. Along the way I successfully edited many books...