Austin Kleon

My latest typewriter interviews are with two cartoonists — one is a fully-drawn and pithy eye feast from Adam Koford, and the other a surprisingly wordy meal from Kevin Huizenga:

I used a quote from Patrick O’Brian’s Post Captain to start my letter, “No urge to be doing”: “There are days… when one sees as though one had been blind the rest of one’s life.

A near-Herculean feat of transcription, if I do say so!

Listen to my new mixtape on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube “Fogust Groove” is a mixtape I made of a bunch of yacht rock and blue-eyed soul I played for my kids while we were driving around the coast of California last week: I first heard these songs as a

An author is never more vulnerable than when they have a book coming out, so I’ll often reach out to their publicists and snag them for an interview.

See my letter, “Inside the man is a teenager.”

Artist and filmmaker Erik Winkowski’s “Zinemail No. 1” and “Zinemail No. 2” (and now “Zinemail No. 3”) are some of the most interesting uses of the Substack platform I’ve ever seen, so I asked him if he’d do a typewriter interview.

A blackout I put at the top of my letter, “Summer Catch-up.”

My latest typewriter interview is with cartoonist James Kochalka.

I’ve been trying to go about the summer Friday newsletters with a sense of lightness, the way I make a collage out of scraps in my drawer — I pull out what I’ve saved, push it around until it makes sense (or nonsense), and glue it down.