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Typewriter interview with Tucker Nichols
10 questions for the artist about pictures + words, color, humor, and dancing
Jan 13 • Austin Kleon

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Dubious practices
10 things worth sharing this week
Jan 9 • Austin Kleon
12 tips for a great family movie night
A dozen things we've learned from our favorite family ritual
Jan 6 • Austin Kleon
100 things that made my year (2025)
A list of good things in 2025
Jan 2 • Austin Kleon
What was your favorite book of 2025?
Not necessarily the best, but your favorite!
Dec 30, 2025 • Austin Kleon
Making the year endless
10 things worth sharing in the final week of 2025
Dec 26, 2025 • Austin Kleon
Glad tidings
A few links and a quick message of thanks
Dec 23, 2025 • Austin Kleon
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featured letters

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The letter that changed my life
The artist who wrote it could use our help
Jul 1, 2025 • Austin Kleon
4 posters to hang in your studio
Motivational slogans that have helped me
Feb 4, 2025 • Austin Kleon
7 questions I ask myself
When I don't know what to do next
Jan 28, 2025 • Austin Kleon
100 quotes that helped me write
From last year’s commonplace diary
Jan 14, 2025 • Austin Kleon

notebooks

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A peek inside my pocket notebook
35+ pages of notes, clippings, doodles, and thinking on the page
Jun 3, 2025 • Austin Kleon
My 4 notebooks
And what goes on inside them
Jan 7, 2025 • Austin Kleon
The Edge Index
Adventures in making a book your own
Jun 18, 2024 • Austin Kleon
Inside my commonplace diary
3 years of quotes piling up and talking to each other
Feb 28, 2023 • Austin Kleon

typewriter interviews

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Typewriter interview with Tucker Nichols
10 questions for the artist about pictures + words, color, humor, and dancing
Jan 13 • Austin Kleon
Typewriter interview with Elizabeth McCracken
10 questions for the author about writing fiction
Dec 2, 2025 • Austin Kleon
Typewriter interview with Matthew Zapruder
10 questions about poetry, negative capability, music, and typewriters
Nov 11, 2025 • Austin Kleon
Typewriter interview with Pam Grossman
10 questions about magic and creativity
Oct 14, 2025 • Austin Kleon

zines

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A zine for gift subscriptions
An analog package for a digital gift
May 22, 2025 • Austin Kleon
Death & Deadlines
A zine about the two things that motivate me
Mar 11, 2025 • Austin Kleon
Read like an artist!
A new version of an old zine + 10 things worth sharing this week
Feb 21, 2025
3 lessons in the soup
A zine about the gumbo in your head
Feb 11, 2025 • Austin Kleon

mixtapes

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A Christmas mixtape
Some favorite holiday music, books, and movies
Dec 16, 2025 • Austin Kleon
A day too long
A new mixtape and 9 other things worth sharing this week
Nov 7, 2025 • Austin Kleon
A stack of mixtapes
8 hours of music for pure and impure moods
Oct 8, 2025 • Austin Kleon
No fun! (a mixtape)
Music for a hot, dusty October country
Oct 8, 2025 • Austin Kleon

tutorials

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An unofficial guide to block printing
Lessons from an amateur
Mar 25, 2025 • Austin Kleon
3 tricks for self-editing
How to read your work like somebody else wrote it
Jan 21, 2025 • Austin Kleon
Collage problems
Nothing you can’t fix with a photocopier
Jun 28, 2022 • Austin Kleon
One page diary
Short videos of easy exercises for filling the page
Jun 14, 2022 • Austin Kleon

video interviews

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1:02:00
Penny Lane on the art of filmmaking
A chat about creative constraints, why kids are the best artists, owls, and more...
Dec 22, 2025 • Austin Kleon and Penny Lane
1:07:33
Making Art in a Noisy World
Questions from Panio Gianopoulos + 10 riffs on our conversation
Nov 24, 2025 • Austin Kleon
1:04:41
The Art of Messing Around
A chat with Priya Parker about Halloween, gathering, jokes, pranks, and other creative mischief
Oct 27, 2025 • Austin Kleon and Priya Parker
1:07:11
The Art of the Newsletter
How to write something you’d want to read
Oct 7, 2025 • Austin Kleon and Sarah Fay, PhD
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