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Episode 181: Beware, Julia Jul 10, 2023

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Summer is in full swing as we read strange letters, overhear videos in strange places, look for Gogol in strange stores, and ever so much more.
Some Came Running

Episode 180: Gloria Jun 16, 2023

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Solarpunk

Judge John Hodgman: This is the Name of Your Mullet

Galveston Railroad Museum

Field Notes Coffee Farm Costa Rica

Field Notes DDC Logos

Dave Eggers on Maurice Sendak

Jesse Ball

Arthur Bradford's Dogwalker

Adam's June 2023 Playlist (Apple Music)(Spotify)

The Wager by David Grann

The Collected Maxims of W.G. Sebald

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Episode 179: Primo Tolstoy Jun 05, 2023

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Adam reflects on his experience with Martin Amis, Adam’s archive is all screwed up, Ted bounces around San Francisco and reads a couple of books. And a correction: Ryan Slie was not reading Anna Karenina.

Field Notes Leap of Faith

Martin Amis

Kinokuniya San Francisco

Lamy Flagship Store San Francisco

City Lights bookstore

The Real Work by Adam Gopnik

Episode 178: Noise May 19, 2023

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All Known Metal Bands

Dapper Notes Playground

Field Notes Craft Plus

Pentel Calme

The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross

Kundun Soundtrack Phillip Glass

Eric Nusbaum on Take Note

Radio 3 Record Review

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the Twentieth Century

Episode 177: Natural Dream Talent Apr 21, 2023

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We talk more about notebooks for a specific purpose, wherein Ted gives up on his dream journal while Adam thrives as a dream journaler. Meanwhile, Packaging World breaks news of new Pentel packaging: we break it down.

Dapper Notes

Pentel Reimagines Blister Packs as Plastic-Free, Packaging World magazine

Saving Time by Jenny O’Dell

Episode 176: Stuck Truckhorn Apr 04, 2023

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We talk journals for specific purposes (aka a good excuse to start another journal) and Ted shares his books and stationery explorations in Charlotte, NC. And listener Scott B. builds on our discussion of refilling Pilot pens.

Main Street Books, Davidson, NC BOOKS!

Good Postage

Elisa Gabbert

Fine Point Communications

Write Notepads Paper Journal Banana

Episode 175: Conduit Mar 20, 2023

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John Prine "Lake Marie"

The Decembrists "Don't Carry It All"

Michael Marra "The Lonesome Death of Francis Clarke"

Buster Keaton "One Week"

Uni Ball Jetstream

Uni Ball Signo 207

The Rest is Noise

Kakuyo Lead Pencil 1.3

Field Notes Unexposed

Dapper Notes Playground

Baseball Prospectus 2023

David Lynch Weather Report

Radio France La B.O.

Klimt (Malkovich)

Rodin

BBC3 Sounds of Cinema Animals Behaving Badly

Episode 174: Parading Mar 01, 2023

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Adam returns from Mardi Gras to share tales of the spectacle and we ponder privacy settings spurred by news of an unsettling Roomba-related breach.

Sue Halpern: Private Eyes

Episode 173: Bedtimify Feb 16, 2023

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The Fabelmans Spoiler

Salman Rushdie on The New Yorker Radio Hour

CityCast Chicago

Dapper Notes

Texas Monthly 50th Anniversary Cover

Episode 172: Backdraft Feb 01, 2023

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Adam makes a song recommendation that becomes a cultural tidal wave in Ted’s household, and they swap yarns about going for the double cheeseburger, cabin fireplace safety, radical baseball honesty, and more.

Spy novelist Mick Herron

Field Notes Hatch Print

Michael Marra on Spotify

BBC Radio 3 (DJ honorific to Sarah Mohr-Pietsch)

Robert Burns

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