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Advice for Privileged Wannabe Writers
Plus: The pencil brand named for a cartoonist, a new baseball storytelling newsletter, Bolaño, and advice for our divisive times.
Mar 8
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January 2024
The denim jacket
Writing Prompt Sigrid Nunez’s cure for writer’s block: Start with the words “I remember…” Notebooks of the Week Ted On the latest episode of the…
Jan 31
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December 2023
Contested roads and happy holidays from Take Note
Ted here, with some stray thoughts grasped from the holiday whorl. ~ Writing with: A Blackwing matte pencil, which is wholly too soft for my taste as…
Dec 22, 2023
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I Feel Compelled to Make Lists
Dec Pods Ryan Slie joined us for #190. You will laugh! We talked about bumper stickers and the December Field Notes edition. Ted and I discuss the state…
Dec 12, 2023
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November 2023
Mississippi Sunsets and Miss Marple
Good morning! Adam here. I’m listening to Lauren Laverne’s morning show on Radio 6, as I try to do every weekday morning. Occasionally I have to remind…
Nov 22, 2023
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Morning Poems, Zadie Smith, and Cousin
Morning Poems For the last few days, I’ve been trying to write poems in my notebook as soon as I wake up. I use the words rumbling in my head as I rise…
Nov 7, 2023
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August 2023
Six Songs from a Summer Notebook
Adam here. I finished a notebook a couple of weeks ago. (Field Notes Surplus Green with Hazard Yellow edition.) A few pages feature attempts to draw…
Aug 30, 2023
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Recently Noted
Underlined, copied, and blogged
Aug 17, 2023
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Touching the dice
“A universe of misfortune was at Bruno’s fingertips, he only had to touch the dice.” — Jonathan Lethem, “A Gambler’s Anatomy,” a backgammon novel if you…
Aug 7, 2023
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July 2023
Diaries Speaking from the Past
I didn’t realize until after I made the list below that there was a theme to the stationery topics I’ve been thinking about this week. Travel through…
Jul 11, 2023
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June 2023
What Do You Write in that Little Notebook?
Adam here. I finished a notebook today. (A Field Notes Trailhead. The best.) It took about six weeks to fill it up, which is typical for me. I wish I…
Jun 27, 2023
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April 2023
One Terrifying Eraser to Rule Them All
Plus: A mysterious airport pencil.
Apr 5, 2023
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