Periodic reminder that you can submit your work for The Best American Science and Nature Writing, so easily, right here: jaimegreen.net/basn

▶️ Episode 933 is now live! I had another great and searching conversation w Elisa Gabbert, whose new essay collection, ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF, is now available from FSG Originals. 🎧 wherever you get your podcasts. 📺 watch it on youtube.

There’s a poem in Reginald Shepherd’s second book that begins with a line from a poem in his first. I love that. Repeat your best lines because nobody’s listening, nobody’s paying attention!

Next Wednesday, 8/14 at 7pm at Une Année Brewery in Niles through StoryStudio Chicago & Niles-Maine Library! Geek Out with Elisa Gabbert & me about Larry McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE. Whether you've read all or some or none of it, it will be fun! Giddy-up.

I complained to a friend about that midlife trapped feeling and she said, I know, I totally get why Dante was like, "time to write the Inferno!"

reading this on the train and gasping periodically so everyone knows i think the color combinations are audacious yet tasteful

A stupid question I have liked to think about for years: What's the classic example of a classic example?

Is there a name for this typographical feature, kind of a cross between a subhead and a marginal caption?

Tonight! Right near the leaning tower of Niles! Elisa Gabbert & I will see you Une Année Brewery for StoryStudio Chicago's Geek Out to discuss Larry McMurtry's epic masterpiece LONESOME DOVE!

When two people are cosmically drawn to each other and then driven apart by a betrayal that later “seems inevitable”? Janet Malcolm looooves that

I’m obsessed with the scene in Gimme Shelter where they listen to the recording of “Wild Horses.” It captures that pure rare crazy brief experience of being satisfied with something you’ve written

Come hang out with us!

My typewriter interview with writer Elisa Gabbert is up! Great fun. Read it here: austinkleon.com/2024/08/27/typ…

Boston area folks, I'll be at the Brookline Booksmith this coming Tuesday, in conversation with the great Laura van den Berg. I hear there will be wine and snacks (two of the things which, along with books, make life worth living!)

I just read some transcribed quotes that I apparently said which make me sound zany and freewheeling but make no mistake: I love control. I will rearrange the dirty dishes in your dishwasher