Austin Kleon | Substack

A peek inside my pocket notebook

35+ pages of notes, clippings, doodles, and thinking on the page

Jun 3 •

Recent posts

10 things worth sharing this week

Jun 6 •

1:02:51

My chat and draw with Jason Chatfield

The cartoonist interviewed me about attention, showing up, comedy, and how to keep going

Jun 3 •

and

Jason Chatfield

10 things worth sharing this week

May 30 •

Typewriter interview with Sarah Manguso

10 questions for the writer about music, hobbies, and more

May 27 •

Making it easier

10 things worth sharing this week + a gift subscription zine

May 23 •

A zine for gift subscriptions

An analog package for a digital gift

May 22 •

Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

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notebooks

A peek inside my pocket notebook

35+ pages of notes, clippings, doodles, and thinking on the page

Jun 3 •

And what goes on inside them

Jan 7 •

Adventures in making a book your own

Jun 18, 2024 •

Inside my commonplace diary

3 years of quotes piling up and talking to each other

Feb 28, 2023 •

zines

A zine for gift subscriptions

An analog package for a digital gift

May 22 •

Death & Deadlines

A zine about the two things that motivate me

Mar 11 •

Read like an artist!

A new version of an old zine + 10 things worth sharing this week

Feb 21

3 lessons in the soup

A zine about the gumbo in your head

Feb 11 •

typewriter interviews

Typewriter interview with Sarah Manguso

10 questions for the writer about music, hobbies, and more

May 27 •

Typewriter interview with Ross Gay

10 questions for the poet, essayist, and student of joy

Feb 25 •

Typewriter interview with Kelli Anderson

On paper, typography, bicycles, cats, and other wonderful things

Dec 17, 2024 •

Typewriter interview with Lynda Barry

On the magic of music, recreational sleeping, and the smell of dogs

Nov 5, 2024 •

tutorials

An unofficial guide to block printing

Lessons from an amateur

Mar 25 •

3 tricks for self-editing

How to read your work like somebody else wrote it

Jan 21 •

Collage problems

Nothing you can’t fix with a photocopier

Jun 28, 2022 •

Short videos of easy exercises for filling the page

Jun 14, 2022 •

video interviews

1:02:51

My chat and draw with Jason Chatfield

The cartoonist interviewed me about attention, showing up, comedy, and how to keep going

Jun 3 •

and

Jason Chatfield

1:02:01

My chat with musician Walter Martin

A wide-ranging discussion about music, creativity, and enthusiasm

Apr 7 •

and

55:35

A chat with Stephanie Zacharek and Dwight Garner

Two of my favorite critics on writing about books and movies

Apr 16, 2024 •

52:44

Sam Anderson on the exploratory line

Celebrating Michel de Montaigne’s birthday with a conversation about writing and drawing

Feb 27, 2024 •

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