Austin Kleon

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 event at First Baptist Church of Austin, 6PM. Ticketed...

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 ...

I asked the great Tim Kreider ten questions about writing, not writing, great writers who are funny, and more. Here are his replies.

Preorder your copy of Don’t Call It Art and complete this form to receive an illustrated PDF that includes: A personal note from me 5 mini posters 5 zines 1 playlist of all the musicians mentioned ...

Easter in East Austin, 2013. The sign reads: “Don’t make your own easter eggs — ain’t nobody got time for that!” Today’s newsletter is about the other kind of easter eggs: It turns out our tweens a...

I had a musical Easter weekend. We watched Wayne’s World for pizza night on Friday, my band practiced for 4 hours on Saturday, and I spent most of Sunday afternoon making a new mixtape: April is of...

From my letter, “Desert not-so-solitaire”: I don’t know how or when it happened, but I’ve somehow become a person who likes being in the desert? It started a few years ago driving from Los Angeles ...

In a recent Tuesday Trio, I wrote about introspection, and quoted Ian Leslie: I’m often struck by how many high achievers are unencumbered by self-reflection. To take an example close to home, I’ve...

Definitely the wildest entry in the typewriter interview series so far: 10 questions for cartoonist Marc Bell.

From my letter, “Analog Mailbag”: From time to time, my friend Warren Craghead sends me drawings on postcards in the mail. One day I decided to put one of Warren’s postcards at the center of a tape...

In Tuesday’s newsletter, I wrote about the comfort of a Rubik’s Cube: When so many of life’s problems are unsolvable, solvable problems are a wonderful distraction. When so many things seem unfixab...

I originally dropped this mix in my “The Return of Spring!” letter and forgot to post it here. I got one side of a cassette perfectly filled with no gaps… and the tape broke. So I had to pivot to a...

I used this drawing by Jules (age 3 or 4 at the time) in my latest letter, “How I get into something new.” One reader said, “I LOVE Jules’ drawing! That overshadowed everything I just read!” The co...