Worth Reading

Vacancy: Room 19 In the fall of 2022, writer and cultural critic Ezra Calloway (The Thinnest Curtain; The Dogs Keep...

The Sound of Breaking Fifteen years ago, I fell through a skylight and landed in the middle of someone else’s...

Marielle Heller doesn’t need explosions, plot twists, or high-concept gimmicks to move you. She works in the margins—between words, between...

By Eliot Granger The instant the body leaves the known—drops from soil into sea, from bed into dream, from sense...

Mark Tremonti doesn’t chase the spotlight—he earns it, brick by brick, riff by riff, in a black T-shirt, head down,...

If you ever wondered what would happen if a metal drummer mixed horror movies, bodybuilding, and a splash of theater...

By Rowan Ashcroft I was asked sometime in early July to write about The Hidden Thorns, the first and only...

By Marshall Grant On March 17, 1983, Julien Mercier scribbled in his notebook: “They think The Hollow Kind is too...

If a Gibson Les Paul were dropped into a cauldron of whiskey, Norse mythology, and Southern-fried doom, it might crawl...

Before Substack newsletters, Twitter threads on postmodernism, or literary hot takes went viral at 2 a.m., there was Levi Asher—typing...