In today’s newsletter I write about Bob Dylan and a movie I haven’t seen based on a book I have read: Dylan Goes Electric!
The comments on this one are extra good. Fellow Dylan fans have much to say.
In fact, the whole letter was an excuse for me to put this at the bottom:
Today’s newsletter includes a free downloadable zine called “More Light!”
It begins:
It gets dark so early these days I find myself sundowning around 3PM. I got so many wonderful notes about the gratitude zines, I decided to revive my creative seasons project and make an interactive winter solstice zine about light.
You can read the rest and download the zine here.
Today’s newsletter is a holiday gift guide that begins with my books:
The book I think would be the most help to almost anybody in the next year is Keep Going, my guide to staying creative in chaotic times. The hardcover of my million-seller Steal Like an Artistand the matching journal are perennial favorites, especially for younger people. Show Your Work! is for people trying to get their work noticed or their business going. If you know an audiobook lover, you can get the whole trilogy for the cost of one book. If you want a “deep cut” for the true weirdo on your list, gift a copy of my CIA-does-haiku poetry collection, Newspaper Blackout. (If you’d like my books signed and personalized for the holidays, order by December 11th from my friends at Bookpeople.)
It ends with the news that paid subscriptions are 20% off until Dec. 25.
In case you missed them in previous years, here are some gratitude zines I made free to download and print.
I’ve loved how people have shared their completed zines with me in Thanksgivings past. To help carry on the tradition, I’ve updated the page with a video explaining how to fold them and a simplified version of the zine for kids.
Please feel free to share them far and wide!
(More on the topic of gratitude in today’s newsletter.)
Last Friday’s newsletter began:
On a bike ride last weekend I chanced upon a neighborhood stop on the West Austin Studio Tour. One of the potters who makes under the name Mud Alchemysaid about her work, “I just go into the studio and play.” I drew her words the next morning in my diary and I’ve been thinking about them since.
You can read the rest here: “Go into the studio and play.”
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