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

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

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

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

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

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

The Fabelmans Spoiler

Salman Rushdie on The New Yorker Radio Hour

CityCast Chicago

Dapper Notes

Texas Monthly 50th Anniversary Cover

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

Sometimes we don't like notebooks, and we get into it by way of Murakami and Saunders.

Field Notes Snowy Evening

Schon Design Pocket Six

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Nemone on BBC6

Lessons by Ian McEwan

Midori Traveller's Notebook

Anderson Pens Vintage Pens

Field Notes Hatch Print

Lamy Tipo

Platinum 3776

Standard Memorandum 2023

McDonald Observatory

Dapper Notes Flying To

Lady Into Fox by David Garnett

Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Dinner by Cesar Aira

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah