Take Note

Adam shares his “grand” European experiences. Ted shares his pencil conundra which spurs invigorating stationery conversation. 

Metric Coffee, Chicago

Last One Laughing Season 2 with Richard Ayoade

https://www.instagram.com/takenote_pod/

Slow Horses Book Series

Big Boy No. 4014

"Big Boy" by David Sedaris

Minney

New Yorker 2026 Fiction Issue

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yoseka Stationery, Brooklyn

Ohto Fude pen

Hitotoki ring notebook

Maruman Spiral Note notebook

Best of the Best Show

The Atlantic: The Unfinished Revolution

The New Yorker: Who is Your Favorite American

The Battles of Saratoga

Field Notes Foiled Again

Penco Glider Pen

Sharpie S-Gel

Anvil Card En Queso Emergecy

Cafe Writer Nanami

Kokuyo Campus Notebook

Alan Rickman's diaries

T-shirts, tats, and bumpers stickers are the currency of the realm; Adam observes a fellow named Dennis making the most of his notebook space; and we talk the new Field Notes Explore American series.

leuchterm bullet journal pocket notebook

john dickerson: the most important job in the world

field notes: explore america

printmaker dave bull

Pilot Fine Liner

Pentel Brush Sign Pen

Pilot Razor Point II

Pentel Mattehop

Field Notes Hatch Print Edition

Joshua Beckman

A Book Relevant to Our Interests

It’s the busy season. Some whaddya gots lead naturally into a discussion of free writing and half-conscious writing, and we discuss There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. 

In Our Time podcast

Music Box Theatre Chicago

Clairefontaine My Essential notebook

There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

They Do Not Always Remember by William Burroughs

DoodleBob

Greenlights Journal

Last Tango in Brooklyn

Don DeLillo Secret Hockey Novel

What We Can Learn from Writing in Journals

Trader Joe's Blueberry Lemonade Sparkling Water

Nanami Seven Seas Journal

Train Dreams in The Paris Review, Summer 2002

"Dirty Work" by Steely Dan

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Steinbeck stage

The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

Opinel knives

Leonard Cohen on Austin City Limits

The War Room

There is No Antimimetics Division [Book Club!]

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CW&T Mechanical Pencil

Field Notes Expedition Edition

BBC Start the Week - Fun and Games

Brick

James Acaster

Piranesi - Don't read the blurb