Take Note

Summer is almost over, so what could be more appropriate than breaking down the stories in the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue? Ryan Slie joins us, to our delight. Sign up for the Substack newsletter!

Field Notes DDC Standard Issue Factory Floor 

Elton John’s “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues”

Houston Astro Bill Doran

Field Notes Kraft - Amber

Dapper Notes

Walking In Memphis

"The Midnight Zone" by Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff New Novel

Raymond Chandler by Anthony Fowles

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Cattan

4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Oliver Burkeman Archive at The Guardian

Dickerson on the Urgent/Important Matrix

Summer is in full swing as we read strange letters, overhear videos in strange places, look for Gogol in strange stores, and ever so much more.

Some Came Running

Lauren Groff 

Georges Simenon

JustWatch

Field Notes

Dapper Notes

Mulholland Drive

Always Take Notes

Solarpunk

Judge John Hodgman: This is the Name of Your Mullet

Galveston Railroad Museum

Field Notes Coffee Farm Costa Rica

Field Notes DDC Logos

Dave Eggers on Maurice Sendak

Jesse Ball

Arthur Bradford's Dogwalker

Adam's June 2023 Playlist (Apple Music) (Spotify)

The Wager by David Grann

The Collected Maxims of W.G. Sebald

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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