Buy the book Finally — finally! — after 7 years, there’s a new book of mine out in the world: Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again is now available wherever you buy books. Don’t Call It Art is a creative liberation handbook of art lessons I learned while being a […]

My latest mixtape captures my attempt to get over the depression and anxiety that can accompany “The Gulp” in between when you finish something and finally push it out into the world. (Don’t worry, it has plenty of bops!) It’s also the first time I’ve ever given a mixtape an epigraph. (From James Hollis’s Finding Meaning […]

The latest typewriter interview is with Brad Neely. Several people told me this is the best one yet.

From my letter, “Fledging season”: I spent an afternoon scanning diaries from 2023 for a speaking gig and I came across all the spring entries from when we had owlets in our backyard owl box. I was obsessed with those owlets and I couldn’t help comparing them to the two young humans we had in […]

I can’t stop making zines! Issues #6 and #7 of my Deleted Zines from Don’t Call It Art are available for free in today’s newsletter.

I made a zine for Mother’s Day that you can download, print out, and fold into a booklet. See item #2 in today’s newsletter!

I’m doing a very limited number of events to promote the release of my new book Don’t Call It Art. Monday, June 1 in Austin, Texas: BookPeople, 6PM. Details here. Wednesday, June 3 in Nashville, Tennessee: Parnassus Books, 6:30PM. Free event, but registration required. RSVP here. Monday, June 8 in Cleveland, Ohio: Cuyahoga County Public […]

Author David Epstein makes his public drawing debut in the latest typewriter interview!

The snails have returned! And I shared some recent snail mail in the newsletter.

I have been struggling with what Jonathan Lethem calls “The Gulp” in The Ecstasy of Influence: “For me, there’s a weird, unfathomable gulf—I almost wrote gulp—between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has voyaged out like some spacecraft on a research mission, populated […]