Three emails I rarely leave unread
Damien Willis, Las Cruces Sun-News [Photo: Chris Lang]
I have written before in this space about my ever-growing number of unread emails. (As of this writing, it’s up to 104,820.) By and large, those are not personal emails; I’m typically pretty good at opening and reading those, even if I struggle to find the time to respond to them all. I need to get better at that.
Instead, most of those unread emails are either notifications from social networks, promotional emails I still receive from my days in radio, or the dozens of different newsletters to which I subscribe. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a breaking news junkie. This has led me to sign up for more email newsletters – news alerts, roundups, briefs – than I’ll ever be able to read.
There are a few, however, that I nearly always make the time to read.
The Browser is one of the few email newsletters for which I actually pay for a subscription. I’ve been a subscriber for about six months, and I’m still not sure whether I usually open it because I know I’m paying for it – or whether I continue to pay for it because it’s nearly always worth opening. Either way, it seldom disappoints.
The Browser has a knack for scouring the internet to find some of the most interesting articles on the internet. On Saturdays, they send an assortment of the “best of the week,” and on Sundays a variety of podcasts worth checking out.
My only complaint, if I have one, would be that it tends to skew a little British – and a little academic – at times. Still, it’s very much worth the $5 a month I’m paying for it, I believe. Find out more at https://thebrowser.com/.
Best Evidence is another great newsletter I always make an extra effort to open. Regular readers of this column will know that I’m a true crime fanatic. As such, the Best Evidence newsletter keeps me informed about the latest books, documentaries and television series I can’t afford to miss. The newsletter is produced by the true-crime podcast The Blotter.
For $5 per month, Best Evidence offers a paid subscription for its newsletter – offering a newsletter ever weekday. However, you can subscribe for free to get one newsletter per week, along with a Wednesday email with details about the latest episode of the podcast. I currently just subscribe to the free newsletter.
Fans of books and literature might also appreciate Lit Hub Daily, the daily newsletter from the Literary Hub website. Each newsletter is jam-packed with the latest news from the world of literature. This includes reading lists, news about new releases, analysis of classics, think-pieces about reading and writing and more.
On the whole, it contains a lot of interesting information that I tend to find useful. And, on occasion, it puts something on my radar that ends up in my Amazon cart.
These are just few of the emails that seldom go unread. If any of them sound interesting to you, I’d suggest you check them out.
Damien Willis is a columnist for Pulse, writing primarily about entertainment and pop culture. He may be reached at dwillis@lcsun-news.com or @DamienWillis on Twitter.
— Originally Published in the Las Cruces Sun-News, 02/27/20
