A literary newsletter for anybody who wants to live an intellectually inspired life — especially when life makes that hard.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 181 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Everything I read in June
About twenty years ago I stole my friend’s copy of Hayden Herrerra’s biography of Frida Kahlo and boarded a flight from Munich to Philadelphia. I opened the book as soon as I buckled my seatbelt and did not look up for ten hours straight. T...
The Reading Life of... Stacey Yu
In February 2024, while writing Lifequakes — a newsletter about life transitions — I wrote a post about discovering BookTok via a podcast interview with . I was a little shy about it but was in a hard, dark stretch and looking for a way bac...
The Reading Life of... Austin Kleon
is a writer, artist, and designer who has spent his career mapping what it actually looks like to live and work as a creative person. His books — Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work! and Keep going — have been a lifeline for me at multiple...
Everything I read in May
A quick note for our friends who are new here: every month I write a post about everything I read. Sometimes the books cohere thematically and I am able to talk to them as a group, other times the only thing connecting them is that they all...
The Reading Life of... Naomi Kanakia
I have wanted to talk to for a long time. We first met, as so many wonderful literary friendships now begin, through Substack — bonding over our shared love of classic literature1 and the ~~pleasures~~ terror of building a reading life in...
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