We’ve rounded up a number of passerby-sourced Substacks to spruce your inbox, or more exactly: overshadow the bi-weekly, useless “system update” emails in your feed and all the things you have to respond to.

We’ve collected ten podcasts that will provide you with hours upon hours of laughs, rabbit holes to tumble down, tender revelations to carry forth into the next seasons, and more chatter to delight and inspire you when you don’t feel like being completely alone.

A collection of books that run 150 pages or less, recommended by the passerby community, spanning from coffee table reads to autofiction to graphic novels. It’s summer, and we want balcony reading — something to sift through in the long golden hour, slurping mint lemonade with our shades on.

Here we have curated a selection of potential entry points to Critical Theory — books that approach politics in ways that genuinely challenge and indict the status quo while offering alternative ways of thinking, behaving, and conceptualizing in a politicized society.

To impress with cultural acumen, to fill an existentially barren pause in conversation, to build upon the giddiness that comes with the intimacy of sharing something important or unhinged or beautiful… All these and more are reasons to keep a host of YouTube rabbit holes in your arsenal.

Poetry often gets a bad reputation for being too oblique or esoteric to reach anyone who isn’t thirteen years old and heartbroken or pursuing an MFA. The following collections of poetry by fifteen fascinating writers all speak earnestly and plainly about the nature of existence and of language itself.