Archive - A reading life

May 2025

Issue 123: How poetry is changing the way I read

On conscious learning and embodied change

May 29

Issue 122: The Reading Life of... Charlee Brooks

On late starts, building a life around reading and the intoxicating magic of bookish friendship 🥹🥹🥹

May 22

Issue 121: My Brain on Books

Journal pages, quotes, and thoughts from Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter

May 15

What is your Substack even about? And do you like it?

A recording from Petya K. Grady and Sarah Fay - SW@W's live video

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Issue 120: Reading carnivorously.

Protecting my reading self

May 8

Issue 119: Everything I Read in April

Bypassing intellect, landing in the gut

May 1

April 2025

Issue 118: The knowledge of feeling

A year of reading "wrong"

Apr 24

Issue 117: The Reading Life of... Erika Veurink

On fifty-page reading stretches, life without TV and friends who know your book taste better than you

Apr 17

Issue 116: My notebook ecosystem (as a book nerd)

Yes. It's a thing.

Apr 10

Issue 115: Everything I Read in March

Who am I when I stop performing? What happens if I rewrite the story entirely?

Apr 3

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