Rising on Substack this week: Culture

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Marina Hyde

55k followers · #75 Culture Bestsellers

+40 in 30 days 41 in all

40 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Cool Stories About Art

248k followers · #76 Culture Bestsellers

+39 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 73 in all

56 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

shit you should care about

844k followers · #41 Culture Bestsellers

+21 in 30 days 55 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Diabolical Lies

98k followers · #2 Culture Bestsellers

+20 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 64 in all

37 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Jordan Younger

67k followers · #11 Culture Bestsellers

+19 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 59 in all

44 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Dean Blundell

114k followers · #10 Culture Bestsellers

+17 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 65 in all

40 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Jessica Valenti

283k followers · #8 Culture Bestsellers

+16 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 79 in all

41 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Roxane Gay

308k followers · #27 Culture Bestsellers

+16 in 30 days 86 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Sam Harris

506k followers · #6 Culture Bestsellers

+14 in 30 days 73 in all

33 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

A. Eevie Bateman

8.8k followers · #88 Culture Rising

+13 in 30 days 51 in all

27 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Sari Botton

223k followers · #28 Culture Bestsellers

+12 in 30 days · +2 in 7 days 108 in all

26 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Kate Bowler

192k followers · #25 Culture Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 59 in all

23 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.