Lavery’s household has two Substack incomes. Lavery’s subscription income for those two years. The contract is structured a bit like a book advance: Substack’s bet is that it will make back its money by taking most of Mr. Lavery already has about 1,800 paying subscribers to his Substack newsletter, The Shatner Chatner, whose most popular piece is written from the perspective of a goose. Lavery, who founded the feminist humor blog The Toast and will be giving up an advice column in Slate.
“I think the thing that I’m the most looking forward to about this is to start a retirement account,” said Mr. Hoo boy, this is interesting.Īt NYT, " Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack":ĭanny Lavery had just agreed to a two-year, $430,000 contract with the newsletter platform Substack when I met him for coffee last week in Brooklyn, and he was deciding what to do with the money. Lorenz has of late been accused of stalking teenagers for inside interviews without the kids' parents permission, she's that bad.)īut no! She's getting offered a $300,000 advance to quite the Old Gray Lady and start her own newsletter? Well, I guess you gotta love free-market competition, which is why the New York Times is so freaked and has basically declared all-out war on the newsletter hosting platform, and this Sulzberger fellow, the publisher (or at least he used to be), is putting up some big bucks to go after top talent (some at Substack!) and have his own "by-line" bigwig writers up their game to meet the challenges of the day. Lorenz doxxed Pamela "Atlas Shrugged" Geller's daughters. But I knew how bad and terrible a person she was long ago, because, for one reason, she's been an awful no-good person for a long time, and Robert Stacy McCain wrote about her years ago, after Ms. Lorenz is a very bad terrible person, and Tucker Carlson called her out a few weeks back, and it was glorious. Now that's why I yelled holy crap! when I saw that headline. See, " Substack Offered NYT Reporter Taylor Lorenz $300,000: Report." Now, while you probably can't read the article to which Perlberg is linking, it turns out Mediaite did read it, and they've written up a piece that reveals the mind-blowing information. Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.My tweets are set to private, but in response to Steven Perlberg's tweet, linking his Business Insider piece (which is behind a paywall, of course), I Elizabeth Bruenig's a freakin' self-declared communist? Did she take the 100 percent boost in pay? Or did she decline on principle? Can't say, because the article's behind a paywall, hence, capitalism. Ford will also be featured in the club, which closes out 2021 with Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So, who died earlier this month at age 28. Torrey Peters’ debut novel, Detransition, Baby, is the February pick.īooks by Brandon Hobson, Gabriela Garcia, and Ashley C. It kicks off in January with Black Futures, an anthology on Black creativity and culture edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. The Audacity will also be home to Gay’s The Audacious Book Club, which will focus on “underrepresented American writers.” Gay revealed the entire 2021 lineup for the club, which will feature one book per month. The newsletter will also feature essays by emerging writers on a biweekly basis. “That’s what I hope to do with this newsletter-tell one hell of a story about the world we’re living in, the culture we consume, the things that bring me joy, the things that infuriate me, the things I think we should talk about.” “People curate what they put from their lives into the public sphere but a good writer makes what they curate one hell of a story,” Gay wrote. Gay, author of Bad Feministand Hunger, will debut The Audacity, a Substack newsletter, on Jan. Literary superstar Roxane Gay is launching a newsletter and a book club.