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Manda M @bettesays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love @austinkleon.bsky.social's typewriter interviews and today's is a nice antidote to the timeline if you need one. Sidenote: Quiet floor time is so underrated. Unsurprisingly, I THRIVED in the Montessori preschool environment. austinkleon.substack.com/p/typewriter...

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Typewriter interview with Roman Muradov

10 questions for the artist about lying on the floor, lineage, cats & kettles, and more...

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People precious about books as objects should have to work in a library or a bookstore for a week and see how many books get tossed

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I tried to get my 13-year-old to do this with the mammoth Steve Jobs biography he picked to read for class

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amyalynx.bsky.social @amyalynx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...a few clues...

back cover of the book - Just Make Stuff: 1/throw out the instructions, 2/don't take things too seriously, 3/give yourself the space and materials, 4/permission to be bad, 5/Believe in Magic, 6/think outside your head, 7/Problems of output are problems of input, 8/Borrow a kid!, 9/Nothing is wasted, 10/you don't need a vision

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amyalynx.bsky.social @amyalynx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

wonderful book... always a good time to make stuff, add some balance to life, let the fun factor be high ~

Don't Call it Art, 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again, book by Austin Kleon

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Only one I haven’t seen is THE LEFTOVERS? Guess I should get on that

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Best lines Don’t Look Back in Anger, remembered as accurately as I can manage: Liam: You have to care a lot to really not give a fuck. Noel: You write a song & someone hears it & puts it in their life & says, that’s mine now. That’s what you want.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a better world is possible

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard was a Pittsburgher like me. I wanted to be a writer, in high school, and when I read PILGRIM for class, it changed my understanding of what being a writer could be. I remember being caught off guard by how funny she was, and how elegantly that could modulate into revelation. Thank you.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 08/08/2026

"I’ve never felt like having kids and making art were that different because you don’t know where any of it’s going. There’s this vast uncertainty to it..." Collin Mitchell interviews @austinkleon.bsky.social about Don't Call It Art (@tarcherbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/QyelfmI

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I love how my boys don’t have any hangups about stuff I would’ve turned my nose up at when I was their age — in the car today we played a little game of “tell me when you hear Michael McDonald” with “Ride Like The Wind” and “Peg” 😂

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

MASTER AND COMMANDER feels to me like many of my favorite experiences with art, where you begin with bewilderment — “WTF is this?” — and maybe even annoyance, but something keeps pulling you back so you just give yourself over to it, and eventually you lock in and you’re hooked

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Mid-life bromance reading continues

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Who asks you to form an opinion? —John Stuart Mill, letter

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Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sorta knew about this but there was more or less (with exceptions) a two year gap in recorded music in the US from 1942-1944 due to a musicians union strike against the record companies over royalties. This Wikipedia entry touches on it but the mind boggles at what must have been lost.

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1942–1944 musicians' strike - Wikipedia

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I need to spend a lot of time at my desk for the next few weeks, so I have the second-screen portal open to my favourite virtual co-working companions, the salmon-fishing bears of Katmai National Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...

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LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org

YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve seen COMMANDO a hundred times and never noticed this dude in the airport

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James Kochalka Superstar @kochalka.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was delighted to see American Elf get mentioned in Don't Call it Art by @austinkleon.bsky.social Unfortunately, the publisher no longer sells the American Elf books, not even the digital editions. However, I post new American Elf fairly regularly over here: patreon.com/kochalka

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ohhhhhh this is so completely my scene!

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Happy 45th birthday to Love Action by the Human League, released as a single on this day in 1981

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16/07/2026

Ideally, you should read this article on an IMAX 70mm screen. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

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Words from the 'Odyssey'

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Will every single item on this week’s list refer, somehow, to The Odyssey? Yes, my friends…” austinkleon.substack.com/p/choose-you...

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Choose your own Odyssey

10 things worth sharing this week

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh.”

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I FOUND ONE!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Meg, upon hearing this news: “Recession indicator!” 😂

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I did this when I was 9 and it rules

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is one of THE major issues that comes up when my wife edits stuff from academics who are trying to reach a general audience

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The best thing I’ve read this year is Willa Cather’s DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP The best thing I’ve read this year that mentions Willa Cather’s DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP is the latest @tricialockwood.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Patricia Lockwood · Diary: A Tradcath Wedding

Recently I had an opportunity to check in on the state of American Catholicism. The occasion was a tradcath wedding...

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

probably once a week I think about this line from @tricialockwood.bsky.social's NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS: "You’ll be nostalgic for all this, too, if you make it."

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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They obviously don’t read the same astrology websites m’lady does 👀

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Jack H Christal-Gattanella @jackherbert.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One of my favorite shots of all time

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Christelle Maris @chhhmaris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’ve started reading @austinkleon.bsky.social’s new book, “Don’t Call It Art”, and it’s wonderful as always. I feel that it’s entering my life at the perfect time, I need to remember to just have fun. 👌🏻

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 17/06/2026

if you haven't read @austinkleon.bsky.social's new book "don't call it art" yet, go buy it. it's good. i read it over the weekend and immediately just started doing shit even though my inner critic said "this is goofy" bookshop.org/p/books/don-...

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Don't Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again

10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again

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TCHQ Communications @tchqcommunications.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some books you read once. @austinkleon.bsky.social "Steal Like an Artist" I've read several times in 13 years and gifted to half the creative people I know. His new book, "Don't Call It Art," is out, and I'm digging into it this week. It's worth your time: amzn.to/4fHCq8J

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David @dcarew.com · 11/06/2026

I stopped by a local bookstore this afternoon to pick up a copy of @austinkleon.bsky.social ‘s new book

Don’t Call It Art: 10 ways to create like a kid again by Austin Kleon. It is a square book with a pink cover

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I've taught PERSEPOLIS (book & movie) more times than I can count. Two epic masterpieces, but, more than that, two texts that find their way to young people. I've never had a class that didn't *get* PERSEPOLIS, and that's a miracle of its own. Satrapi's voice and imagination are so alive. RIP.

little Marjane in bed talking to a giant bearded god in the clouds

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