There are different types of newsletters and creative uses of newsletter technology. Finding.email and Reading.email intends to label and sort newsletters by type to let people better discover great newsletters.
The first large categories comes from books: fiction and non-fiction. So many newsletters are non-fiction, we tend to forget about fiction. But Reading.email launched promoting poems and reading is in our name. We will continue to support fiction and one step is outlined below.
This Week's Promoted List
Fiction list started when reviewing Elle Griffin's Novelleist newsletter where she showed other fiction newsletters. Several of those are in this list on both Reading.email and Finding.email. "Fiction in 50" provides a different tiny story everyday. Joseph W. Knowles is posting his “Defying Conventions” novel currently with another one planned. "Mark Starlin Writes" is the umbrella for several fiction newsletters "Baron Britpop Blastfurnance" and "Elise Bossioneau". K.B. Bailey is releasing "Something Deep" in the Solar Flow newsletter. Erik Wennermark's newsletter includes several projects. "The Links" is a three minute soap opera released three times a week.
Interest in serial fiction by email is rising as book publishers struggle. There are still stories to tell. Substack Spotlight is hosting Elle Griffin in a June 30th event on this topic. A free Substack account is required to attend.
So far Reading.email has focused on reading the latest email so I'll have to consider providing options for reading fiction where you probably want to read the first sent.
This Week's Promoted Newsletters
The Sequence newsletter covers Artificial Intelligence. This week I listened to Ezra Klein's podcast "Is A.I the Problem? Or Are We?" I was particularly stuck by how advancements in AI are also changing neural science and vice versa. For a different take I looked at The Sequence newsletter. It is not introductory material but shows depth of material that is AI. A fascinating field.
Press Watch from Dan Froomkin provides weekly review of the press and their US national coverage. He previously worked at The Washington Post. The newsletter is not always critical. He like the new editor of The Washington Post and hopes for bolder leadership. (Note: I worked a The Post for almost two years.)
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