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What was your favorite book of 2025?
Not necessarily the best, but your favorite!
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Making the year endless
10 things worth sharing in the final week of 2025
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Glad tidings
A few links and a quick message of thanks
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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...
 • Austin Kleon and Penny Lane
Holiday Whac-A-Mole
10 things worth sharing this week
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A Christmas mixtape
Some favorite holiday music, books, and movies
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Open rebellion
10 things worth sharing this week
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Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.
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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
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4 posters to hang in your studio
Motivational slogans that have helped me
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7 questions I ask myself
When I don't know what to do next
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100 quotes that helped me write
From last year’s commonplace diary
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notebooks

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A peek inside my pocket notebook
35+ pages of notes, clippings, doodles, and thinking on the page
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My 4 notebooks
And what goes on inside them
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The Edge Index
Adventures in making a book your own
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Inside my commonplace diary
3 years of quotes piling up and talking to each other
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typewriter interviews

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Typewriter interview with Elizabeth McCracken
10 questions for the author about writing fiction
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Typewriter interview with Matthew Zapruder
10 questions about poetry, negative capability, music, and typewriters
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Typewriter interview with Pam Grossman
10 questions about magic and creativity
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Typewriter interview with Kate Bingaman-Burt
10 questions about daily drawing, teaching, the Honda Fit, and more
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zines

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A zine for gift subscriptions
An analog package for a digital gift
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Death & Deadlines
A zine about the two things that motivate me
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Read like an artist!
A new version of an old zine + 10 things worth sharing this week
3 lessons in the soup
A zine about the gumbo in your head
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mixtapes

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

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An unofficial guide to block printing
Lessons from an amateur
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3 tricks for self-editing
How to read your work like somebody else wrote it
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Collage problems
Nothing you can’t fix with a photocopier
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One page diary
Short videos of easy exercises for filling the page
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video interviews

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