We discuss the new releases from Blackwing and Field Notes before whaddya gotting as Adam anticipates a mid-life crisis as indicated by an interest in whales, the Kindred Spirit mailbox on the North Carolina beach (a bit of heavy content there, so TW), and delve further into our ongoing meditation on notebook usage for creative writing.

Field Notes Trailhead

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (actually published in 1998, not 1987 as I joked about)

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Blackwing Lab 7.29.21 non-repro blue pencil

Kindred Spirit mailbox

UNC Wilmington archive

The blackest ink

Apica C.D. Notebook

Narwhal fountain pen

Marlon and Jake Read Dead People podcast

Timothy Morton appears on Beatie Wolfe’s podcast at dublab

New Yorker Summer Fiction issue

The Libby app by Overdrive, for libraries