Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon

@austinkleon.bsky.social

I’m a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com

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Jan Melvil Publishing
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Hrajte si. Zkoušejte. Blbněte.🎨💃🎭 A neříkejte tomu umění.😉 Austin Kleon se vrací s knihou o tom, že tvořit můžete i jen tak. Pro radost. Bez tlaku na výsledek. 🧵⤵️

Austin Kleon
@austinkleon.bsky.social

Fun Saturday watching baseball with the family, with brief interruptions by ads for The Department of War and Megan Fox talking about dick pills ⚾️ 🇺🇸

Austin Kleon
@austinkleon.bsky.social

People precious about books as objects should have to work in a library or a bookstore for a week and see how many books get tossed

Tim Carmody@tcarmody.bsky.social

Some people cannot tolerate any physical violence to books but imo if you bought it it’s yours

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Levi Stahl
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Best lines Don’t Look Back in Anger, remembered as accurately as I can manage: Liam: You have to care a lot to really not give a fuck. Noel: You write a song & someone hears it & puts it in their life & says, that’s mine now. That’s what you want.

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Clayton Cubitt
@claytoncubitt.bsky.social

a better world is possible

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social

The heart of end times fascism is an abandonment of this world. Heaven is either celestial or computational, but not earthly. Not here. It’s why so many people are already rising up. Most people actually like it here. Thank you to CNN International’s Amanpour for having us.

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Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social

Annie Dillard was a Pittsburgher like me. I wanted to be a writer, in high school, and when I read PILGRIM for class, it changed my understanding of what being a writer could be. I remember being caught off guard by how funny she was, and how elegantly that could modulate into revelation. Thank you.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” has died at 81.

nyti.msAnnie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
Austin Kleon
@austinkleon.bsky.social

I love how my boys don’t have any hangups about stuff I would’ve turned my nose up at when I was their age — in the car today we played a little game of “tell me when you hear Michael McDonald” with “Ride Like The Wind” and “Peg” 😂

Austin Kleon
@austinkleon.bsky.social

MASTER AND COMMANDER feels to me like many of my favorite experiences with art, where you begin with bewilderment — “WTF is this?” — and maybe even annoyance, but something keeps pulling you back so you just give yourself over to it, and eventually you lock in and you’re hooked

Austin Kleon@austinkleon.bsky.social

Mid-life bromance reading continues

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Tricia Lockwood
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I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%

Austin Kleon
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This is one of THE major issues that comes up when my wife edits stuff from academics who are trying to reach a general audience

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social

The academic tic I've most had to scrub from my writing practice — at book length esp — is the impulse to always be arguing against somebody, to make an intervention by discrediting somebody else's intervention. I learned a lot of good habits in grad school; that's not one of them.