WITI Team | December 27, 2025
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 85
A hidden SAAB dealership, spending $28,000 on Substacks, opening a bookshop, and much more.
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best.
It’s WITI, on the weekend.
Why are these interesting?
I Opened a Bookshop. It was the Best, Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done (HTSI)
And as a bonus, here’s five minutes on why a branch of London’s Daunt Books was just named the most popular bookshop in the world.
The Read Max Year in Review (Read Max)
Max Read asked thirty people (including Ezra Klein and Sam Valenti) for their own idiosyncratic year-end best-of lists, including ‘8 Zingers From The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘Best Merch for the Performative Reader’.
There’s a Hidden, Undemolished SAAB Dealership in Massachusetts (Broke but Boosted)
And this TikToker went to find it.
“I Spend $28,000 on Substack Subscriptions” (Anne Kadet)
An interview with an Upper East Side power user.
How Two U.S. Marxists Wound Up on the Front Lines Against ISIS (Rolling Stone)
From 2017, still totally wild and deeply reported.