A portable routine

In this week's newsletter: traveling, curious elders and youth spies, ear and eye candy, and more...

In this week's newsletter: curious elders and youth spies, ear and eye candy, and more... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, The Keep Going tour continues! Tonight: Cleveland. Next week: Chapel Hill, Atlanta, and Nashville. More upcoming dates here. (Scroll down for t-shirts!) Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:  When you're on the road, you need a portable routine.   How young people can help you hold on to your curiosity as you age.   Diary of a song: How Lizzo made "Juice." (This is some major Show Your Work! nerdery for music lovers.) You can see the rest of the series here.   The legend of Keanu Reeves.   Travel tip: take a picture of your hotel room number.   Tomorrow is Independent Book Store Day, and some participating stores are giving away free Overheard on the Titanic prints. Find an indie near you and go support it!   The art of redaction.   Getting my photo taken by Clayton Cubitt was a highlight of last year. For a limited time, you can commission him to take your portrait, too!   Ear & eye candy Soul food: I highly, highly recommend seeing the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace.   RIP Rhino Records whiz Gary Stewart. Thanks for reading. If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to someone who'd like it or, even better, buy them a book! If you're seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here. xoxo,  Austin PS. Only a few days left to get a Keep Going t-shirt or sweatshirt! Austin Kleon is the author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. Subscribe to this newsletter   Copyright © 2019 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 19885 Detroit Road Box #222 Rocky River, OH 44116 You're getting this email because you signed up for it at austinkleon.com. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Amazon Affiliate links offset the cost of sending these missives. (And pay for diapers.)

Put it on a t-shirt

In this week's newsletter: what I'm reading, listening to, looking at, and more...

In this week's newsletter: what I'm reading, listening to, and looking at... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, The turnout for the Keep Going tour has been so awesome. Sacramento set the bar high this week with over 150 people. Tonight I'm at Tattered Cover in Denver, and next week I'm in Boston, Washington, D.C., Richmond, and Cleveland. I would love to see you and draw in your books. Bring a friend or two or three. (See more tour dates here.)  Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:  To celebrate the release of Keep Going, for a limited time Cotton Bureau is selling Keep Going t-shirts and sweatshirts!   I'm reading Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Seth Godin's This Is Marketing. (I find the way Seth redefines marketing as service really helpful.)   Oliver Sacks on the healing power of gardens. (From his last collection, Everything in Its Place.)   A podcast about the inventor of kindergarten. Featured are authors of two books I recommend: Alexandra Lange's The Design of Childhood and Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, which makes the brilliant case that many of the great Modernist artists and architects were influenced by the invention of kindergarten.   On "operational transparency," or why showing what you do adds value to your work.   The mysteries of mummy portraits from Ancient Egypt.   Ear candy: since I've been traveling so much, I've been listening to an old favorite, The Magnetic Fields' The Charm of the Highway Strip. (Here's a photo of me and Stephin Merritt. That was a fun interview.)    Last weekend I took the Coast Starlight Amtrak from Seattle to San Francisco, and it was really fun. (And yes, I listened to "Born on a Train" several times.)   Eye candy: Since I was staying in The Presidio after I got off the train, I watched the Andy Goldsworthy documentaries, Rivers and Tides and Leaning Into The Wind. (I wrote about Goldsworthy's work when my youngest turned three. He's also a big inspiration for my six-year-old's driftwood sculptures.)    Shut up and listen and give yourself a decade. Thanks for reading. If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to someone who'd like it or, even better, buy them a book! If you're seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here. xoxo,  Austin PS. Come see me on the road! Austin Kleon is the author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. Subscribe to this newsletter   Copyright © 2019 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 19885 Detroit Road Box #222 Rocky River, OH 44116 You're getting this email because you signed up for it at austinkleon.com. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Amazon Affiliate links offset the cost of sending these missives. (And pay for diapers.)

How disconnection boosts creativity

This week: how disconnection boosts creativity, how musicians make money, and more...

In this week's newsletter: how disconnection helps creativity, how musicians make money, and more... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, Book tour rolls on. Lots of airplane mode. Tonight: Seattle. Next week: Sacramento, Corte Madera (SF/Marin area), Boulder, and Denver. (Friends in San Francisco: I *might* do a last-minute pop-up signing at the Book Passage in the Ferry Building this weekend. I'll announce it on my Twitter and Instagram if it's gonna happen.) Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:  How disconnection boosts your creativity. (An excerpt from Keep Going.)   I caught the Hilma af Klint exhibit at the Guggenheim while I was in NYC, and I couldn't believe how much some of her paintings reminded me of W.E.B. Du Bois's infographics. If you can't make the show, the catalog and the book collecting her notebooks are both worth a read.   Reading Robert Caro on researching his LBJ biographies made me want to get his new book, Working. (See also his interview with David Marchese.)   What it's like to grow up with more money than you'll ever spend. (I like Disney's idea of earning it in reverse.)   How indie musicians actually make money.   Why four-panel comics now dominate our screens. (Featuring Nathan Pyle's strip, Strange Planet.)    Oliver Sacks on smartphones, from his last essay collection, Everything in its Place.    New books from friends of mine: Clive Thompson's Coders (an excerpt, "The Secret History of Women in Coding" ran in the NYTimes) and Mike Monteiro's Ruined By Design.    Eye candy: Famous movie scenes borrowed from paintings.   Neil Gaiman on why writers need to pretend they're in Groundhog Day. Thanks for reading. If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to someone who'd like it or, even better, buy them a copy of Keep Going! If you're seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here. xoxo,  Austin Austin Kleon is the author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. Subscribe to this newsletter   Copyright © 2019 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 19885 Detroit Road Box #222 Rocky River, OH 44116 You're getting this email because you signed up for it at austinkleon.com. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Amazon Affiliate links offset the cost of sending these missives. (And pay for diapers.)