Adam visits the whiskey room and tries to make a mystery out of it, Ted observes the goings on at the farmer’s market lemonade stand, Adam works on summarizing stories simply to learn about stories, and we go on about George Saunders and Ezra Klein and stories and whatnot.

Field Notes Trailhead

Uni Jetstream

Uniball One .38

The terrible Rhodia pencil

Ottessa Moshfegh

The Killers by Ernest Hemingway

The Dead Hotel by Kevin Powers on the Stinging Fly

The Ezra Klein Show with George Saunders

Stainless Steel Lamy 2000

Simon Rich

Moose Drool Brown Ale

A Fire in Minnesota. An Arrest in Mexico. Cameras Everywhere.

Hugh Jackman thing

Ernest Hemingway PBS

New Yorker 2021 Summer Fiction Issue

Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney profile by Lauren Collins

Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" [Full text]

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

Tudor Trilogy

Ali Smith on Start the Week

Be The Serpent Podcast

Neapolitain Novels

No Plot? No Problem

How To Write One Song

We discuss what to do with the joists, refreshment concepts, adjacency to John Malkovich, handwriting ergonomics, and Ted improvises a rainy walk to work.

Josh Gondelman’s podcast, Make My Day

It Never Ends by Tom Scharpling

UCLA Ergonomics - Handwriting for Healthy Hands

Field Notes 50th

PaperMate Flair

My Brilliant Friend by Elana Ferrante

It’s the summertime, and Adam and Ted rap about hair stylist conversations, our shared love of Sport Clips, ghost kitchens, commonplace books, and Ted’s dramatic rediscovery of the memo. 

Salads Here (just don’t)

A Capitol Records memo shared by Ryan Walsh on Twitter

Sweet Theft by JD McClatchy

Letts Travelers

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Paul Holdengräber on dublab

Field Notes End Papers

No More Jockeys

Wes Anderson’s film soundtracks play an outsized role in both of our lives, so we decided to hold a draft. Who will win? What does winning mean in this context? Who knows?! Plus, a buddhist chant gifted, a summer beverage series entry that includes some beverage confusion, and ballpark rules violations. 

Pilot Precise V5

Dependency (Copenhagen Trilogy) by Tove Ditlevsen

BBC World War 2 - Witness History radio shorts (The Fall of Paris)

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

Uniball Air

The Story of Film by Mark Cousins

We are joined by Ryan Slie to discuss the fiftieth edition of Field Notes, Blackwing's Independent Bookstore pencils, and how these companies differentiate between their quarterly editions and their collaborations that don't go to subscribers. We also shop the closet to appreciate some slightly older stationery items.

Ryan Slie at Fancy Chimpanzee

Cesar Aira's Ghosts

Jonathan Lethem's "The Crooked House"

Pleonasm

Nanami Seven Seas Notebook

Letts Travelers

Standard Memorandum 2021

Field Notes End Papers

Field Notes Fifty

Pop-Tone paper has been used in Field Notes Just Below Zero, Packet of Sunshine, and Sweet Tooth editions

Main Street Books, Davidson, NC

Blackwing Independent Bookstore Pencils

We discuss why Field Notes is special as they launch their 50th quarterly edition. We go on to talk about: an unfinished finished puzzle; a BFG lexicon; connecting with cute dogs across the street; newspaper target practice; very strong feelings against the Sunday style section; ancient charlatans; and reading a magazine backwards.

Pilot Precise V5

Sakura Pigma Micron

Matt Thomas, who used to read the entire Sunday New York Times

“The Rules of the Confidence Game” by Anna Della Subin, NY Review of Books

Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Journalists

The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth

Field Notes releases its 50th quarterly edition

Field Notes Kraft

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

Bill Wittliff

In A Narrow Grave

John Graves

Edward Hoagland

Pilot Precise V5

Billy Collins MasterClass

John Ashbery