There’s some other important stuff occupying my head and heart this week, so I’m popping in to recommend a few other newsletters you might enjoy.
Sharpest Knife in the Drawer: Stacy-Marie Ishmael, The Main Event: This brilliant thinker recently made a switch from a smaller newsletter platform to Substack, so you can opt into shorter free emails or you can just trust me when I say that she is truly amazing and support her work by getting a paid subscription for more content. I first became a fan when she appeared several times on Another Round (exhibit A, exhibit B) to talk about workplace dynamics and careers, gender and race, and lots more. I’ve also linked to her tweets here before.
Most Meditative: Hannah Hessel Ratner, Words from Hanvnah - Once upon a time I was an intern at Theater J in Washington, DC. Hannah Hessel was the incredibly cool, savvy member of the tiny staff who I would have lost touch with if it weren’t for social media. She is a dramaturg who created this totally intriguing-sounding production that’s currently onstage in Washington, DC. If you’re there, you should get tickets. And wherever you are, if you appreciate musings on theater-making, parenting, the creative process, time management, Millennial Jewish perspectives, good books, and more, you should subscribe to her newsletter.
Queen of Consistency: Ann Friedman, The Ann Friedman Weekly - I imagine many of you already subscribe to this one or are familiar with Ann Friedman because she co-hosts the podcast Call Your Girlfriend with Aminatou Sow. (They’re writing a book, a “memoir-manifesto” about friendship, together next.) It’s hard to explain how influential this media-maker’s trajectory has been on my own, partly because my career looks almost nothing like hers. But I’ve followed her professional steps and strategies and collaborations with loyalty, fascination, and appreciation. She sends her newsletter out every Friday and I proceed to crash my browser by opening almost all of the links she crams in.
I wish I had more of my own words for you tonight. I hope you go drink theirs in. I always do. See you next Wednesday.
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