In today’s newsletter I open up my commonplace diary:
You can read the whole letter here.
Name my new book truck
Some friends of the newsletter at Demco made my book truck dreams come true and shipped me this yellow beauty.
Inspired by the librarians at my local branch who give their book trucks names like “Shelvis Presley” and “Trolley Parton,” I’ve decided my new truck needs a name.
You can cast your vote in today’s newsletter.
Typewriter interview with Chase Jarvis
My latest typewriter interview is with Chase Jarvis, who has interviewed me many times over the years. You can read the whole thing here.
I guess this really is a series now? I’m sending out questions to a new batch of folks this week, so stay tuned. (You can read the others here.)
The mind at 4 a.m.
I made this blackout last week and put it at the top of Friday’s newsletter about getting in and out of trouble. Unfortunately, it was prophetic, because I was up at 4 a.m. this morning…
How do you draw time?
Today’s newsletter begins:
When I was finishing up James Kaplan’s 3 Shades of Blue, I was thinking how much I wanted to see a timeline of the lives of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans mapped out on the page. Kaplan presents the jazz musicians’ 3 lives with the album Kind of Blue as a kind of convergence point — in my head I imagined their lives as Massimo Vignelli’s NYC subway map in 3 shades of blue. (Not an original thought, it turns out.) So I got out some graph paper and a pencil and made a few crude (and probably inaccurate) attempts…
Read the rest: “How do you draw time?”
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