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Recommended by Rani Monson

Free Puppies

By Laurel Cummings

Where comedy meets commerce. 🐾

What's not to love? Insider insights on the comedy industry and funny writing gigs that pay real money.

- Rani Monson

🐒 Monkey Girl

By Allison Lau

Reclaiming my story, one monkey, one essay, one chapter at a time.

Across fact & fiction, a reminder that we all have so much in common.

- Rani Monson

Butt + Chair

By Laurie Frankel

Novels, reading novels, writing novels, loving and/or raising humans who read and/or write novels

The No Stress Club

By Jennifer Galante Han

Weekly fashion commentary from someone who actually works in it - written to make you laugh and look better.

The Bob

By Bob Eckstein

Sharing Cartoons, Humor & Writing Tips

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

MUTHR, FCKD

Deep thoughts and petty bullshit about feminism, pop culture, and the human condition by journalist Vivian Manning-Schaffel. Gen XXX. Unbothered.

VETTED

By Jamie Lewin

Fashion designer, stylist & expert shopper. 25+ years in the industry. Bringing you trend reports, styling advice and what’s worth buying. Weekly newsletter every Sunday. FALL STYLE GUIDE LAUNCHING OCTOBER.

Fashion Soup

By Lindsay Sword

Fashion industry insider serving up delicious design, classic style, and good clothes.

What worked, what didn't & why -- at all the price points.

- Rani Monson

Resting Rich Face™

Beauty, interiors, life — taste required.

It's Not Sustainable with Tiffanie Darke

By Tiffanie Darke: It's Not Sustainable

Love fashion but feel guilty? Me too. Let's change this.

Millennial AF

If you're too tired for late nights, too young for early-bird specials, & are still mad low-rise jeans are back, you've come to the right place.

Because Staci is happy to drop the f bomb as needed

- Rani Monson

Geezer magazine

By Laura LeBleu

Geezer is the only print magazine for Gen X. We explore the agony and ecstasy of aging—because midlife is weird in ways no one warned us about.

A feel-good pub we all need to read, no matter our age.

- Rani Monson

Good For Your Age

By Cheryl

Reporting on the beauty industry, aging, and wellness BS through a Gen X lens

Real talk - the only way I like it

- Rani Monson

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

Panic Mode. With Wine.

By Melanie Erickson

Stories from a recovering rule-follower collecting Silver BBs of hope, wisdom, and courage...because life doesn’t hand us a Silver Bullet when you need one. You bring the panic. I’ll bring the wine. (And maybe bruschetta.)

Red Purse of Justice

By Amy Benavides

The Red Purse of Justice is full of secrets and stories about espionage and terrorism in Europe during and after the Cold War. It’s important to document this information as the Cold War warriors pass away.

From a woman who's lived many lives with lots of stories to share

- Rani Monson

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.

My first Substack I ever paid for. Because the truth is always stranger and better than fiction.

- Rani Monson

Operating by John Brewton

Weekly Reporting on the History & Future of Operating Companies

I Want to be Her!

By Andrea Linett

A shopping and style blog by Andrea Linett, creative director, author, former Sassy and Harper's Bazaar editor, and co-founder of Lucky Magazine

It's my first read of the daily. I want pretty much everything. And I get ideas on how to shop my own closet. Love the mix of old & new -- with personality.

- Rani Monson