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If you’re getting this already, you’re pretty clever. Or else I’m bad at keeping secrets. But welcome to Cup of Coffee! Cup of Coffee is a daily baseball newsletter from me, Craig Calcaterra, that is live as of today and which will begin updating every weekday morning beginning on Monday, August 17. I’m going to make official announcements about it on social media and everywhere else I can think of later this morning.

To start off my new Habitually Chic Substack, I thought I would answer some questions that I’m often asked, as well as some from the Aesthete interviews from HTSI so new followers can get to know me. Habitually Chic was a nom de plume I chose in 2007 when I decided to start a blog while I was working for an interior designe… ncG1vNJzZmigkZe2tcHApaOym5iesG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ivlaGwsLnEZquoZZiWr6rA1JqjpbFdmLWqr4xrZ3itpKKstLvUq5qedVVnk6O%2BzrCqnl1ie7Oiv8eipqeZnpmvpq3UrbBfraSirK6xw6KspnWimq6lsdFr

Hey y’all. Thanks for joining me for the inaugural issue of Karen’s Corner—a once-monthly bonus issue of “One First.” If you’re looking for deep analysis of the Supreme Court and its history, you … won’t find that here (Steve will be back Monday, apparently to talk about a Justice whose nickname was “Old Bacon Face”?). Consider this more like the One First After Dark, where we get real about all things in the legal profession, parenthood, and life more generally.

Share I wrote my book The Parent Trap about parenting and inequality (not the movies with Lindsay Lohan or Hayley Mills, which I do love but regrettably did not contribute to in any way) because I wanted to accelerate two big shifts. First, a cultural shift. I wanted people to start embracing that child development is too complicated to expect individual parents to do it well on their own with a little love and elbow grease — and that’s ok!

Folks, from now on, my Substack will be where I share with you my linguistics podcast Lexicon Valley. As many of you know, Mike Vuolo and I did that podcast for Slate for many years, after Mike and my now Booksmart colleague Bob Garfield had helmed the show for years before that. However, last summer we took the show to our new podcast emporium, Booksmartstudios.org. That is: the show continues, despite that Slate now archives the shows we did for them under the title of the language podcast that replaced ours under their banner, Spectacular Vernacular.

Welcome to In Zoe’s Kitchen, a weekly newsletter where I’ll share two seasonal and veg-forward recipes to inspire your meal planning for the week. The impetus for this newsletter: I love cooking. I love reading—and trying—new recipes. And I also love when friends or family reach out to me to ask, “What should I cook this week?” But I am not a recipe developer. Instead, each Saturday, I map out my meals for the week, pulling inspiration from newsletters, cookbooks, recommendations from loved ones, or my own personal recipe archives.

Well, it’s a new Substack run by Scott Mendelson, infamous film journalist, kill-joy movie critic and bloviating box office pundit. Yes, I’m taking the plunge and hoping for the best. This site will be free throughout December before going at least somewhat paywalled in early 2024. Kids, cats and nonstop supplies of Zevia soda cans are expensive. This will be a regular run of deep-dive analysis and (when applicable) deadpan commentary. Think box office punditry, film reviews, news analysis and think pieces.

Hello. I’m George Saunders, a writer, and a professor in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. In my most recent book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, I explored seven short stories by four of the great Russian masters (Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol, and Tolstoy). A lot was going on in the world as I wrote it, but working on it always made me feel happy and stable. Focusing all of my energy on the stories (reading them closely enough to write about them, revising and revising my essays, obsessing over the meaning of a paragraph or the nuances of various translations) felt immersive and stimulating – the very opposite of burying my head in the sand.

I think that Kagurabachi’s popularity was just a perfect storm of events. Bear with me for a moment. Jump is going through another transition period. My Hero Academia and Black Clover are in their final arcs, and Jujutsu Kaisen is getting close to its end too. Those are some of the most popular titles in Jump because of how action-packed and mainstream they are, and people are naturally going to be looking for more.