Elissa Altman

@elissaaltman · Poor Man's Feast · Substack profile · Literature

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Elissa Altman has 48,772 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 63 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 47.

Followers read 6 days ago

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 48,772; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: not shown; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 63; +2 in 30 days
Recommends: 47
Bestsellers rank: not on a board

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Elissa Altman on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	48,772

Leaderboard positions

Not on a category leaderboard right now

Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.

Recommendations

63 publications recommend Elissa Altman; 2 started in the last 30 days. Elissa Altman recommends 47, and 11 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Oct 2024 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2022-05	1
2022-07	1
2022-08	2
2022-11	1
2023-01	3
2023-05	1
2023-11	1
2024-01	1
2024-06	1
2024-10	3
2024-11	1
2024-12	1
2025-01	5
2025-02	2
2025-03	3
2025-04	4
2025-05	4
2025-06	4
2025-07	3
2025-08	3
2025-09	1
2025-10	1
2025-11	1
2026-01	2
2026-02	1
2026-04	1
2026-05	1
2026-06	1
2026-07	3
2026-08	2
2026-09	2
2026-10	2

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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.