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P S Y C H O ! (a mixtape)
This mix began as a Halloween party mix (complete with “Monster Mash”) and then morphed into something weirder and scarier, I think: a mix of songs (mostly) about being crazy — maybe even psychotically! — in love. (The more you listen to love songs the more you realize, “Man,…
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On nemeses
I used this poem at the top of my letter, “Everything you can see.” See also: “Do you have a nemesis?”
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Typewriter interview with Lisa Hanawalt
The latest typewriter interview is with artist Lisa Hanawalt.
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On baseball
I love to (mostly) ignore baseball all year and then follow the playoffs religiously. A few weeks ago I wrote a whole newsletter about the game called “Baseball on the brain.” It begins: “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring,…
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Archival issues
I have been writing a special Tuesday newsletter for paid subscribers for five years now, which means there’s a bunch of really good stuff just kind of hiding in the archives over there. I’ve tagged a lot of of it on the newsletter homepage in categories like “notebooks,”…
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Are we a teardown or a fixer-upper?
Last week’s newsletter began: An out-of-town developer tore a house down at the end of my street and cut down every single tree on the lot. As I watched the big T-Rex excavator claw down the walls, a thought ran through my head: If it can be built, it can be torn down. True of…
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Typewriter interviews with Roz Chast and Paul Noth
This was not entirely pre-planned, but: it turns out I’m publishing a typewriter interview with a cartoonist every week of October, and I just now realized they’re all contributors to The New Yorker. The first two are Roz Chast and Paul Noth! (Can you guess the other two?)
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Inside the cartoon library
Curators Jenny Robb and Caitlin McGurk took me on a 45-minute guided tour of one of my favorite places: the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on the OSU campus in Columbus, Ohio. Really fun. Watch the video.
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Learning by drawing
In last Friday’s newsletter, I wrote about helping my sixth grader with homework: I’ve been inspired lately by how many people I admire have moved to an analog notebook-based method of teaching. I really believe that in 2026 plain ol’ paper and pencil is the killer app. For…
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Typewriter interview with Roman Muradov
The latest typewriter interview is with artist Roman Muradov.