![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The impact of its inclusion of literary heavyweights, however, is less clear.ĮXPLAINER: All you need to know about newsletter platform Substack, and how it works Substack has rightly earned disruptor status in terms of how it lets writers and creators engage directly with their readers (and monetise this engagement, if they so choose). This isn't even taking into account the numerous comics books writers of note who have signed on to the service in the same time frame, including Black Widow writer Kelly Thompson and Batman's James Tynion IV, or the non-fiction authors like Anand Giridharadas and Matt Taibbi who have been serialising their works on Substack. Within weeks, yet another acclaimed author had joined the Substack ranks - Chuck Pahlaniuk. ![]() The author said he wanted to speak 'freely without any gatekeepers or intermediaries' - although it is difficult to imagine that even the famously fatwa-ed Rushdie, celebrated as he is, has had to deal too much with either gatekeepers, or intermediaries in his publishing career. This September, when Salman Rushdie announced that he would soon be publishing on Substack, the email newsletter service for writers, it seemed like a curiosity. ![]()
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