A NY Times editor told me — respectfully — I was wrong 🫠
On thrillers, genre-ism, and being trapped by one’s own taste
A reading life
A literary newsletter for anybody who wants to live an intellectually inspired life.
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Source Material: a conversation with Stacey Yu
The author of KITTEN on the broken promise that inspired her debut novel
Everything I read in July
On solitude, creative life and finding hope by escaping one’s self.
The Reading Life of... Kim Ourada
A discerning eye, real taste, and no compulsion to plant a flag
This is NOT a Julia Cameron // The Artist’s Way hate-post
Notes from my search for a journaling practice that doesn't end in existential catastrophe.
Mid-Year Review: reading, art writing, notebooks
The invisible strings that hold us together
Everything I read in June
On planning not to read, off-season reading and really, REALLY, really good Substack writing advice.
The Reading Life of... Stacey Yu
One of my favorite online readers on sniffing books, reading kinks and what returns her to her normal reading rhythm
The Reading Life of... Austin Kleon
What he reads, how he reads, and why he'd rather talk about books than recommend them
Everything I read in May
Featuring artistic devotion, dystopian longing, difficult mothers, and Anne Carson in the frozen north