Susan Wittig Albert

Aug 19, 2023 | read.substack.com | Susan Wittig Albert |Jack Holmes |Emma Lee-Potter |Marissa Cox

Hello and welcome back to Substack Reads! We take a tour of the way language shapes the world: from journalist Tim Lee and cognitive scientist Sean Trott’s primer on the large language models that power ChatGPT to Sam Kriss on how understanding Chinese can help you understand history, and readers recommend Jamie Schler, who takes a trip into the backstory of a traditional French summer dish. To start, a delightful romp into the past obsession with balloons.

Jul 28, 2023 | susanwittigalbert.substack.com | Susan Wittig Albert

Place & Thyme is a community newsletter for people who are interested in sharing what we know about living in place, growing and using plants, growing older, crafting, reading, writing, and publishing. It is published in 4-5 editions each month. I’m an 80-something writer who migrated from a 15-year university career to a 40-year career in fiction—four long-running mystery series, biographical novels, YA novels—as well as memoir and nonfiction.