Take Note

We get into it on appliances singing songs to us, the perils of the corn maze, fencing studio signage and wisdom, we skirt the Waymo suits, Ted shares some meme-worthy tombstone inscriptions, and of course we ponder trying National Novel-Writing Month.

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Take Note Tweet of Oct. 8

Ted misnamed Lydia Davis (it’s not Laurie Anderson), regarding a Granta story about the voices of everyday things, can’t find the link

At North Farm by John Ashberry

TK & The Holy Know-Nothings

Colson Whitehead and Nabokov using index cards, Take Note blog

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Commander Cody on Letterman

"The beauty, eccentricity, and precariousness of life on the river side of the New Orleans levees." (The source of that beached corpse quote)

Waxahatchee

Rockin' the Suburbs Podcast

My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy

At North Farm

The Silken Tent

Adam reads the same poem all month and finds a discrepancy at the wire, Ted bakes in peacetime, Adam witnesses some A-plus sideline coaching, and we discuss what it’s like to misplace a notebook. We also discuss the new Field Notes Harvest edition.

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The Silken Tent by Robert Frost

King Arthur Baking Company baguette-making tutorial

Field Notes Harvest edition

My Quotable Kid from Chronicle Books

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: Get reading for episode 140!

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Fancy Chimpanzee Ryan Slie

Humblebrag

CW Pencils Closing

Field Notes 52 coming September 20

The Joys of Reading Many Books at Once

Adam and Ted discuss Sally Rooney’s new book Beautiful World, Where Are You?, but not before revisiting a decades-old saxaphony scandal, re-learning how to be in the world, bringing out the tried and true “Stickin’ With It” segment, and prepping Adam to start a month-long poetry-reading project.

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I Think You Should Leave by Tim Robinson

r/panelshow

r/extinct_hockey

The Silken Tent by Robert Frost

V by Tony Harrison

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Adam and Ted discuss purch, long sentences, and hyperobjects

Swann's Way

Javier Marias

Henry James

Lydia Davis Essays One

Cuyahoga

Timothy Morton's Hyper-Pandemic

Tales of the Big Bend

Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence

Timothy Morton talks on Youtube

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