# A reading life

A literary newsletter for anybody who wants to live an intellectually inspired life.

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## [A NY Times editor told me — respectfully — I was wrong 🫠](https://petya.substack.com/p/a-ny-times-editor-told-me-respectfully)

_2026-08-13_

On thrillers, genre-ism, and being trapped by one’s own taste

## [Source Material: a conversation with Stacey Yu](https://petya.substack.com/p/source-material-a-conversation-with-44c)

_2026-08-06_

The author of KITTEN on the broken promise that inspired her debut novel

## [Everything I read in July](https://petya.substack.com/p/everything-i-read-in-july)

_2026-07-30_

On solitude, creative life and finding hope by escaping one’s self.

## [The Reading Life of... Kim Ourada](https://petya.substack.com/p/the-reading-life-of-kim-ourada)

_2026-07-23_

A discerning eye, real taste, and no compulsion to plant a flag

## [This is NOT a Julia Cameron // The Artist’s Way hate-post](https://petya.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-julia-cameron-the-artists)

_2026-07-16_

Notes from my search for a journaling practice that doesn't end in existential catastrophe.

## [Mid-Year Review: reading, art writing, notebooks](https://petya.substack.com/p/mid-year-review-reading-art-writing)

_2026-07-09_

The invisible strings that hold us together

## [Everything I read in June](https://petya.substack.com/p/everything-i-read-in-june)

_2026-07-02_

On planning not to read, off-season reading and really, REALLY, really good Substack writing advice.

## [The Reading Life of... Stacey Yu](https://petya.substack.com/p/the-reading-life-of-stacey-yu)

_2026-06-25_

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](https://petya.substack.com/p/the-reading-life-of-austin-kleon)

_2026-06-04_

What he reads, how he reads, and why he'd rather talk about books than recommend them

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## [Everything I read in May](https://petya.substack.com/p/everything-i-read-in-may)

_2026-05-28_

Featuring artistic devotion, dystopian longing, difficult mothers, and Anne Carson in the frozen north