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Typewriter interview with Lynda Barry
Today’s newsletter might be my favorite I’ve ever sent out:
I figured a letter sent out on such a Tuesday better be full of delight. Luckily, today we have the marvelous Lynda Barry with us. To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of her masterpiece What It Is, she answered a batch of my questions via the United States Postal Service…
No artist has had a bigger impact on my work, so you can imagine what this meant to me!
You can read the whole interview here.
Filed under: typewriter interviews
Against prognostication
Last Friday’s letter, “Against Prognostication,” began with a collage I made around a drawing Warren Craghead sent me on a postcard and continued:
In brain-scrambling times like these, I like to read old books. I’m currently reading one of Michel de Montaigne’s essays every morning to avoid a.m. doomscrolling. 400 years ago, Montaigne wrote in “On Prognostications” about “the stubborn curiosity of our nature which delights in worrying about the future as if it had not enough to deal with in the present.” He then quotes Lucian: “Let the mind of men be blind to what is to be. May those who fear be permitted to hope.”
The letter ended with this page from Keep Going (which is only $1.99 on ebook for the rest of the month):
You can read the rest of the letter here.
Interview with Dave Gray
My friend Dave Gray interviewed me way back in January for his “School of the Possible.” We talked about creative habits and making a life while making a living. You can watch it on YouTube.
Notebooks and memory
Today’s newsletter was an excuse to link these three books at my spot on the kitchen table — Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, my late summer/fall diary (started on Oahu back in August), and Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three, the final installment in his sketchbook series.
It was also an excuse to post these drawings from my sketchbook:
You can read the whole newsletter here: “On memory and notebooks.”
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