Culture Shlock | Malcolm Fleschner

Recommended by Malcolm Fleschner

Hello, friends. Welcome to The Best Newsletter, my weekly attempt to make sense of the overwhelming barrage of shows, movies, books, articles, and everything else the media-cultural world throws at us these days.

The Gene Pool

By gene weingarten

Humor. Outrageous discussions, surprising observations, live chats, polls, and the weekly Invitational humor contest (formerly The Washington Post's Style Invitational). Significant misanthropy tempered by a warm heart.

Tangentially Speaking with Chris Ryan

Small-batch, hand-crafted, artisanal. From bestselling author and OG podcaster Chris Ryan.

Reading Chris' book Sex at Dawn changed my life. I'm hoping that by reading his Substack maybe it will change back.

- Malcolm Fleschner

The Invitational

By Pat Myers

Links from Pat Myers, Empress of The Invitational, the irreverent weekly humor/wordplay contest recently canceled by The Washington Post but now run by the Empress and Czar Gene Weingarten at GeneWeingarten.substack.com.

The Invitational is the funniest (formerly) newspaper-based weekly humor contest consisting entirely of reader-generated content in the world -- bar none!

- Malcolm Fleschner

Aaron Mate

By Aaron Maté

Reporting and analysis by award-winning independent journalist.

Writing by Kyle Thiermann

By Kyle Thiermann

I reject the idea that surfers can't spel.