Austin Kleon
@austinkleon.bsky.social
I’m a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com
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Best lines Don’t Look Back in Anger, remembered as accurately as I can manage:
Liam: You have to care a lot to really not give a fuck.
Noel: You write a song & someone hears it & puts it in their life & says, that’s mine now. That’s what you want.
Liam: You have to care a lot to really not give a fuck.
Noel: You write a song & someone hears it & puts it in their life & says, that’s mine now. That’s what you want.
September 17, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Best lines Don’t Look Back in Anger, remembered as accurately as I can manage:
Liam: You have to care a lot to really not give a fuck.
Noel: You write a song & someone hears it & puts it in their life & says, that’s mine now. That’s what you want.
Liam: You have to care a lot to really not give a fuck.
Noel: You write a song & someone hears it & puts it in their life & says, that’s mine now. That’s what you want.
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a better world is possible
The heart of end times fascism is an abandonment of this world. Heaven is either celestial or computational, but not earthly. Not here. It’s why so many people are already rising up. Most people actually like it here. Thank you to CNN International’s Amanpour for having us.
September 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
a better world is possible
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Annie Dillard was a Pittsburgher like me. I wanted to be a writer, in high school, and when I read PILGRIM for class, it changed my understanding of what being a writer could be. I remember being caught off guard by how funny she was, and how elegantly that could modulate into revelation. Thank you.
Breaking News: Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” has died at 81.
Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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September 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Annie Dillard was a Pittsburgher like me. I wanted to be a writer, in high school, and when I read PILGRIM for class, it changed my understanding of what being a writer could be. I remember being caught off guard by how funny she was, and how elegantly that could modulate into revelation. Thank you.
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"I’ve never felt like having kids and making art were that different because you don’t know where any of it’s going. There’s this vast uncertainty to it..."
Collin Mitchell interviews @austinkleon.bsky.social about Don't Call It Art (@tarcherbooks.bsky.social).
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Collin Mitchell interviews @austinkleon.bsky.social about Don't Call It Art (@tarcherbooks.bsky.social).
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August 7, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"I’ve never felt like having kids and making art were that different because you don’t know where any of it’s going. There’s this vast uncertainty to it..."
Collin Mitchell interviews @austinkleon.bsky.social about Don't Call It Art (@tarcherbooks.bsky.social).
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Collin Mitchell interviews @austinkleon.bsky.social about Don't Call It Art (@tarcherbooks.bsky.social).
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I love how my boys don’t have any hangups about stuff I would’ve turned my nose up at when I was their age — in the car today we played a little game of “tell me when you hear Michael McDonald” with “Ride Like The Wind” and “Peg” 😂
August 4, 2026 at 2:54 AM
I love how my boys don’t have any hangups about stuff I would’ve turned my nose up at when I was their age — in the car today we played a little game of “tell me when you hear Michael McDonald” with “Ride Like The Wind” and “Peg” 😂
MASTER AND COMMANDER feels to me like many of my favorite experiences with art, where you begin with bewilderment — “WTF is this?” — and maybe even annoyance, but something keeps pulling you back so you just give yourself over to it, and eventually you lock in and you’re hooked
August 3, 2026 at 1:58 AM
MASTER AND COMMANDER feels to me like many of my favorite experiences with art, where you begin with bewilderment — “WTF is this?” — and maybe even annoyance, but something keeps pulling you back so you just give yourself over to it, and eventually you lock in and you’re hooked
Mid-life bromance reading continues
August 3, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Mid-life bromance reading continues
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Who asks you to form an opinion?
—John Stuart Mill, letter
—John Stuart Mill, letter
August 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Who asks you to form an opinion?
—John Stuart Mill, letter
—John Stuart Mill, letter
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Sorta knew about this but there was more or less (with exceptions) a two year gap in recorded music in the US from 1942-1944 due to a musicians union strike against the record companies over royalties.
This Wikipedia entry touches on it but the mind boggles at what must have been lost.
This Wikipedia entry touches on it but the mind boggles at what must have been lost.
1942–1944 musicians' strike - Wikipedia
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July 31, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Sorta knew about this but there was more or less (with exceptions) a two year gap in recorded music in the US from 1942-1944 due to a musicians union strike against the record companies over royalties.
This Wikipedia entry touches on it but the mind boggles at what must have been lost.
This Wikipedia entry touches on it but the mind boggles at what must have been lost.
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I need to spend a lot of time at my desk for the next few weeks, so I have the second-screen portal open to my favourite virtual co-working companions, the salmon-fishing bears of Katmai National Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...
LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org
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July 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I need to spend a lot of time at my desk for the next few weeks, so I have the second-screen portal open to my favourite virtual co-working companions, the salmon-fishing bears of Katmai National Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...
I’ve seen COMMANDO a hundred times and never noticed this dude in the airport
July 29, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I’ve seen COMMANDO a hundred times and never noticed this dude in the airport
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I was delighted to see American Elf get mentioned in Don't Call it Art by @austinkleon.bsky.social
Unfortunately, the publisher no longer sells the American Elf books, not even the digital editions. However, I post new American Elf fairly regularly over here: patreon.com/kochalka
Unfortunately, the publisher no longer sells the American Elf books, not even the digital editions. However, I post new American Elf fairly regularly over here: patreon.com/kochalka
July 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I was delighted to see American Elf get mentioned in Don't Call it Art by @austinkleon.bsky.social
Unfortunately, the publisher no longer sells the American Elf books, not even the digital editions. However, I post new American Elf fairly regularly over here: patreon.com/kochalka
Unfortunately, the publisher no longer sells the American Elf books, not even the digital editions. However, I post new American Elf fairly regularly over here: patreon.com/kochalka
Re: Wilson vs Nolan
She selling books, he’s selling tickets… everybody wins!
July 27, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Re: Wilson vs Nolan
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I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%
July 27, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%
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ohhhhhh this is so completely my scene!
"In 1970, Kenneth Koch published a groundbreaking book about writing poetry with kids. Half a century later, Jess Shane tracks down his students to ask what it meant for their lives" ❤️ - "What's Inside the Moon," Signal Hill Issue 3
July 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
ohhhhhh this is so completely my scene!
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Happy 45th birthday to Love Action by the Human League, released as a single on this day in 1981
July 27, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Happy 45th birthday to Love Action by the Human League, released as a single on this day in 1981
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Ideally, you should read this article on an IMAX 70mm screen.
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www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...
Words from the 'Odyssey'
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July 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Ideally, you should read this article on an IMAX 70mm screen.
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...
“Will every single item on this week’s list refer, somehow, to The Odyssey? Yes, my friends…”
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Choose your own Odyssey
10 things worth sharing this week
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July 24, 2026 at 11:22 PM
“Will every single item on this week’s list refer, somehow, to The Odyssey? Yes, my friends…”
austinkleon.substack.com/p/choose-you...
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“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh.”
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS in our Odysseys collection.
This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry’s most revered funnymen.
This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry’s most revered funnymen.
July 23, 2026 at 1:03 AM
“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh.”
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60 years ago today, the monks on beat club. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Monks - Beat Club 1966 - YouTube
Beat Club (Bremen, Germany) July 16 1966: Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Choice Monk Chant Oh How to Do Now Aula Gymnasium (Frankfurt, Germany) October 6 1966: ...
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July 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM
60 years ago today, the monks on beat club. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I FOUND ONE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE
July 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I FOUND ONE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE
Meg, upon hearing this news: “Recession indicator!” 😂
Just discovered that FSG is (re)publishing How to Cook a Wolf in the fall (!!!)
July 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Meg, upon hearing this news: “Recession indicator!” 😂
I did this when I was 9 and it rules
July 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I did this when I was 9 and it rules
