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Feline Sonata: When Love Goes Wrong
Welcome to bestselling, award-winning author and Substack Growth Strategist Sarah Fay’s personal Substack.
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The Sadness of Speed Reading
In graduate school, I tried speedreading to survive an impossible workload. It taught me how to process words—and how to stop feeling them.
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On Rereading Edith Wharton's 'House of Mirth'
Chihuahuas, sobbing for fictional characters, and the tragedy of Lily Bart
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On Proving Ourselves and Letting Go
My Paris Review Interview with Javier Marias
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What Will Really Matter on Your Deathbed
I’ve never been around someone who was dying until today.
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What's one thing you'll fear less?
What’s one thing you’ll be fearless about?
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On Fasting and Being Fed in the 1990s
My boyfriend Chris went out to our backyard vegetable garden and returned with two armfuls of freshly picked yellow squash.
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What's one thing you'll try to be less exceptional at?
We’re obsessed with being ultra, super, exceptional—at least in the U.S. Ultramarathoners. Super communicators. What’s one thing you’ll try to be less…
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Thich Nhat Hanh Has a Cold
I met the late Thich Nhat Hanh in 2010 when I interviewed him at his monastery Plum Village in Southern France.
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Is FX's 'The English Teacher' at the Forefront of Mental Health?
Answer: Yes. A look at the Kayla episode of "The English Teacher" and how it may just change the conversation around the mental health crisis.
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What will you simplify this month?
“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
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The Shame of Not Reading
A look at how easy and painful it can be to let books go. Easy because at the time I lost my ability to read, bookstores had shuttered. Painful because…
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