Austin Kleon

Feb 25, 2025 | workingmethods.substack.com | Matt Ruby |Austin Kleon

Cartoonist and teacher Paul Karasik: “Study something you love in depth.”“Here’s the only thing you need to remember from this talk: ‘Study something you love to death’—I mean ‘depth’! [laughter] ‘Study something you love in depth.’ I just gave you an hour, so tonight give me 45 minutes. Spend 45 minutes tonight studying something you love. Watch the first five minutes of your favorite movie 7 times. You will notice new things.”It’s from a lecture about his book How To Read Nancy.

Feb 4, 2025 | authorstrator.substack.com | Meaghan McIsaac |Austin Kleon

Hoooooooooo boy. The holidays have come on hard and fast this year and I can hardly catch my breath. Between the present shopping, the food shopping, the hosting, the cooking, the decorating, the visits, the pageants......and the kids’ hockey.....I've barely had a second to take a minute to think. I haven’t even gotten to watch all the holiday hallmark movies as I wanted! How are you holding up?

Jan 24, 2025 | jillianhess.substack.com | Jillian Hess |Austin Kleon

‘Tis the season to write about Bob Dylan, considering that a new movie about the Nobel-Prize winning, genre-defying artist will be in theaters next week. I’d guess that Dylan is right when he claims the film will offer “a version of me.” I’ve wanted to write about Dylan’s notes for a while, and now feels like the perfect time. I’m excited to share a few secrets to Dylan’s creativity hidden in his notes. According to his friends, Dylan was always scribbling in his notebooks.

Jan 22, 2025 | strangersguide.substack.com | Abby Rapoport |Austin Kleon

Stranger’s Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. We believe that local writers, journalists and thinkers are best equipped to explain their political and cultural realities and we publish stories that ask us to listen to the complexities of the world. Passport is our monthly letter from the SG team, sharing more about what we’re working on, what we’re enjoying and what’s on our minds.

Jan 10, 2025 | austinkleon.substack.com | Austin Kleon

Hey y’all, Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:Raymond Carver liked to quote Isak Dinesen, who said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. “Someday,” he wrote, “I’ll put that on a three-by-five-card and tape it to the wall beside my desk.” The poet Tess Gallagher said Dinesen’s words were a “quiet banner of determination” that flew over the last decade of Carver’s life.