![]() Recently relaunched for the Substack era, the daily emails (sent out Monday to Thursday) link to everything from tech criticism to showbiz news, and capture the frenetic energy of having 30-plus tabs open in a browser at any one time. These carefully constructed essays include an argument in defence of the power of words online (penned in active opposition to the image-led culture of Instagram), and the so-called democratisation of culture on the internet.įirst started way back in 2013, this internet-obsessed missive was one of the pioneers of the newsletter form. Sean Monahan (co-founder of K-HOLE, the trend-forcasting agency who coined the term normcore) is the writer behind 8Ball, a weekly newsletter on culture, trends and tech. ![]() Occasionally scrappy, peppered with screenshots scraped from the depths of the internet, and always engaging. With a rich plurality of voices, it’s not quite your typical newsletter, yet not quite a magazine. Image via Dirt Dispatches from the Internetĭescribed as ‘a daily newsletter about entertainment online’, Dirt invites a wide range of contributors to pen texts on anything from a potato-shaped house in Idaho to The Sims computer game, alongside a regular round-up of ‘the week in streaming’. Here are the best of the bunch, sure to keep you entertained and informed on all the latest cultural goings-on. Subscribe directly to defeat the social-media algorithm, ensuring a curated feed that goes beyond the dreaded doomscroll. Expect weird and wonderful musings on raves, Prince, pickles, Instagram, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and everything in-between. Over the last year, these newsletters have moved into the mainstream, with high-profile writers striking lucrative deals with prominent publishing platforms such as Substack. The result? An array of completely independent newsletters, containing everything from razor-sharp cultural criticism to handy round-ups of the latest museum news, delivered direct to the inboxes of subscribers. ![]() Tired of the editorial constraints of traditional outlets and clickbait headlines, a growing number of writers are taking matters into their own hands. It might sound counterintuitive, but much of the best writing today isn’t being published in newspapers or magazines. Image credit: Anton Hickel, Portrait of Marie-Thérèse, Princesse de Lamballe, 1788
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