Substacks recommended by Thomas Pluck | What Pluckery Is This?

Recommended by Thomas Pluck

This must be the place! It's a beautiful world and these writers and artists will inspire you with their love of our only home.

A directory of nature-focused substacks.

- Thomas Pluck

A Word About...

By Benjamin Dreyer

Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.

Simply a delight to read, always.

- Thomas Pluck

Earth Hope

By Amanda Royal

Collecting environmental success stories from around the globe, because hope is the foundation of progress. Writing solutions-based eco-news seasoned with media critique. Focusing on solutions. Inspiring action.

Fearless Green

By Rebecca Wisent

Owl in America || Notes from an American Environmentalist: chronicling the Trump years from an environmental lawyer’s perspective

Under The Influence

By Ray Banks

Mainlining cinema from 1966-1980.

Great deep dives into lesser-known films.

- Thomas Pluck

Nature Moments

By Sydney Michalski

nature photography + nature stories to inspire you to be curious, be amazed, and then do it again!

Kent’s Substack

By Kent Peterson

I usually type about one page a day here on an old manual typewriter.

A daily typewritten delight.

- Thomas Pluck

Laura Erickson's For the Birds

Laura's birding blog—usually a fleshed-out transcript of my radio program/podcast, with photos.

Birds!

- Thomas Pluck

EastKeep

By Anna E

A newsletter about teaching, tribal education work, adventure, and community/solitude from the 2014 Montana Teacher of the Year.

Release McCracken

By Elizabeth McCracken

Occasional notes from Elizabeth McCracken

Easy By Nature

By Bill Davison

Exploration and insights into re-wilding your yard, neighborhood, and spirit.

A wonderful nature newsletter.

- Thomas Pluck

Mister Slang

By Jonathon GREEN

The world of anglophone slang

The Sultan of Slang is now on Substack. Always a delight to read, whether you're a lover of language or not. If he were French, I'd say he serves up the esc-argot....

- Thomas Pluck

The Weekly Anthropocene

By Sam Matey

Dispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.

Planet Carnival

Exploring The Tradition and customs of the annual bacchanal

A scholar of Carnival across the world, I always learn something new from his articles.

- Thomas Pluck

True Crime Report

By Steve Huff

True Crime, most of the time.

Steve Huff writes about crime with grit and pathos.

- Thomas Pluck

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

On writing, living with cats, being a widow, movies, running, my current workshops & what we are reading, books, art, comedy, nature, gardening, friendship, more.

Writing chat by one of our greatest living writers.

- Thomas Pluck

Badreads

By Lauren Hough

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

One of my favorite essayists, living life brilliantly.

- Thomas Pluck

I Can't Eat My Guinea Pig....

By Charlie Hamilton James

Misadventures and misunderstandings from a Nat Geo photographer, filmmaker and artist, occasional writer and otter obsessive

a great memoir in progress

- Thomas Pluck

Rock & Hawk

By James Freitas

Nothing more timely, nothing less real

Excellent reading and photography.

- Thomas Pluck

WanderFinder

By Hannah

Nature & misadventure. Join me here or on Instagram @WanderFinderLust. Views are my own.

A great weekly read about travel, nature, birdwatching, and more.

- Thomas Pluck

sara by the season

By Sara

a little bit of everything, but seasonal of course

Beautiful and smart writing about our place in nature, and more.

- Thomas Pluck

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

A newsletter about ownership, property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons.

Always worth reading: our relationship to the land.

- Thomas Pluck

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

Always a delight!

- Thomas Pluck

Field Notes

By Christopher Brown

Reports from the edgelands

Fascinating explorations of the urban wilds and much more.

- Thomas Pluck

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

The only political newsletter I read.

- Thomas Pluck

Lynchline: The Scott Lynch Newsletter

By Scott Lynch

Commentary on fantasy, science fiction, pop culture, games, and the craft of storytelling from an internationally best-selling fantasy author.

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Little Shell poet and teacher, always enlightening.

- Thomas Pluck