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Hey y’all, Mark Haddon is a writer and artist best known for his bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. His latest book is Leaving Home, an illustrated memoir “about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.” This typewriter interview was conducted via the magic of overseas mail.

Hey y’all, Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week: Everyone, it seems, is on vacation. My bike gang is on vacation! My bandmates are on vacation! My barber is on vacation! My therapist is on vacation! Heck, you might be even on vacation. One day soon, I, too, will be on vacation, and when I am, I will think of Seneca quoting Socrates in Letters from a Stoic: “How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself with you?

Hey y’all, Earlier this month I had the pleasure of getting to chat about Don’t Call It Art with art coach Beth Pickens as part of her Homework Club.

Listen to my new mixtape on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Hey y’all, If you loved Don’t Call It Art, a 5-star review on Amazon or Goodreads goes a long way! Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week: To express and exorcise my summer misery, I made a new mixtape called “Weep to Water the Trees.” It was inspired by the vibe of two of my favorite live videos on YouTube: Deerhunter playing “Nothing Ever Happened” and King Krule playing “Out Getting Ribs”: You can listen to the...

Hey y’all, Vijay Gupta is a Grammy-nominated violinist, speaker, and founder of Street Symphony. Last month he published his first book, Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation, which I had the pleasure of blurbing: “Ten years ago, I was watching a 1996 episode of Reading Rainbow with my son when I found myself captivated by the intensity of a bespectacled 8-year-old violin prodigy. I desperately wanted to know what became of this kid—did he conquer the world or have a complete breakdown?

A doodle of Joel Paterson I made at the Bob Dylan show Hey y’all, Heads up: I’m running a 20% off paid subscriptions summer sale through the weekend! Get a special email from me every Tuesday and join in the coolest comment threads on the internet: Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week: “The air is getting hotter / there’s a rumbling in the skies…” My buddies and I rode our bicycles down to see Bob Dylan in Waterloo Park here in Austin, Texas on Monday, the Sarahan Dust...

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Listen to my new mixtape on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Hey y’all, Not sure how long it’ll last, but at the moment, my books Keep Going and Show Your Work!are $7 and $6 on Amazon. Here are the 10 other things worth sharing this week: Summer in Texas is never easy. You have to try hard to keep your thing together, stay cool, and remember the #1 rule of Funk: ”Keep it on the one.” I made a new mixtape to help called ”In a (Summer) Funk.” You can listen to it on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.

Hey y’all, Earlier this month I talked to Jillian Hess about my four notebooks and shared the tour diary I kept on the road. I also showed a bunch of diary pages in my Don’t Call It Art book talks. I thought it would be cool to share them here, too. I’ve kept some kind of notebook since I was in middle school, but I started keeping a bonafide diary late in 2016, after I read an abridged version of Thoreau’s journals.

Hey y’all, Here are the 10 things worth sharing this week: RIP artist David Hockney. I’ve had this newspaper clipping above my desk in multiple studios over the years. There are so many photos of him looking joyous, smiling, but I like his look in this one because it says to me, “What are you doing with your life?