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Episode 251: A Cruel, Cruel Game

Adam shares his “grand” European experiences. Ted shares his pencil conundra which spurs invigorating stationery conversation.  Metric Coffee, Chicago Last One Laughing

Episode 250: End-of-Summer Neck Pillow

Slow Horses Book Series Big Boy No. 4014 "Big Boy" by David Sedaris Minney New Yorker 2026 Fiction Issue "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Episode 249: The Last Tie Salesman in America

Yoseka Stationery, Brooklyn Ohto Fude pen Hitotoki ring notebook Maruman Spiral Note notebook

Episode 248: Shirzees

Best of the Best Show The Atlantic: The Unfinished Revolution The New Yorker: Who is Your Favorite American The Battles of Saratoga Field Notes Foiled Again Penco Gl

Episode 247: The Dennis Style

T-shirts, tats, and bumpers stickers are the currency of the realm; Adam observes a fellow named Dennis making the most of his notebook space; and we talk the new Field N

Episode 246: Cryptic

Pilot Fine Liner Pentel Brush Sign Pen Pilot Razor Point II Pentel Mattehop Field Notes Hatch Print Edition Joshua Beckman A Book Relevant to Our Interests

Episode 245: One Thing After Another

It’s the busy season. Some whaddya gots lead naturally into a discussion of free writing and half-conscious writing, and we discuss There Is No Antimemetics Division by q

Episode 244: WWMMD

DoodleBob Greenlights Journal Last Tango in Brooklyn Don DeLillo Secret Hockey Novel What We Can Learn from Writing in Journals Trader Joe's Blueberry Lemonade Spark

Episode 243: The Smell Society

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Steinbeck stage The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place Opinel knives Leonard Cohen on Austin City Limits The War Room

Episode 242: Metal Jaw

CW&T Mechanical Pencil Field Notes Expedition Edition BBC Start the Week - Fun and Games Brick James Acaster Piranesi - Don't read the blurb

Episode 241: The Best of the No-Good Louseys

Winter fashion influencer chat moves to beanie logo placement before travel to the armory, the library, and the horizontal pocket notebook.  A Truce That is Not Peace by

Episode 240: Up For Grabs

Save It For Next Year TWSBI Obsidian Balograf Swedish Pen Stalogy Low-Viscosity Pen Clairefontaine My Essentials Clairefontaine Triomphe Notepad Blackwing Independe

Episode 239: Idea of the Year

A Fairytale of Take Note. Kakou Collective Start the Week Oliver Sacks in the New Yorker Odd Lots: pizza place

Episode 238: Perhaps Without All the Beatings

Shot By Cheney Field Notes Fall Flowers Hatch Show Print Store The Lowdown

Episode 237: Talkin’ Twilight Override with Tim Wasem

Tim Wasem of the venerable Erasable Podcast to discussion, among other things, Jeff Tweedy’s new solo triple album, “Twilight Override.” Transcendence for Beginners by C

Episode 236: Risible

Several Short Sentences on Writing Verlyn Klinkenborg Octpus Lauren Collins Uniqlo Adventure Time “Thank You” Clear the Field Podcast Bob Dylan East Troy Wisconsin S

Episode 235: Country Wizard

Do men like beef jerky? No more letters in Denmark. Watching people buy a weird amount of Monster/Red Bull from the Costco returns line. There’s nothing more punk than a

Episode 234: The Protein Era

Do men like beef jerky? No more letters in Denmark. Watching people buy a weird amount of Monster/Red Bull from the Costco returns line. There’s nothing more punk than a

Episode 233: Manual Whistling

Merlin Bird ID Deja Blue is not new. Founded 1996. Alpine Cowboys Baseball Rangra Theatre, Alpine, TX Bohuslav Martinů's Symphony No. 5 Good Postage North Carolina

Episode 232: The New Yorker Fiction Issue

Ryan joins us before the next decasode as we delve into three stories from the New Yorker’s Fiction issue (our 6th time doing it!). Alongside your regularly scheduled wha