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By Austin Kleon · Austin Kleon · · 4 min read

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“Choose your fighter.”

Hey y’all,

If you’d like to get a signed and personalized copy of one or all of my books for the holidays, you can order them now from Bookpeople! I’ll sign as many as you buy. Deadline for Christmas delivery is December 14th! I doodle a different drawing in each book — in Newspaper Blackout I draw a screech owl:

Here are 10 other things I thought were worth sharing this week:

  1. How to fix a typewriter and your life.

  2. Austin, Texas: You may remember Kelli Anderson’s wonderful typewriter interview. Kelli’s coming to First Light Books this Monday (11/24) to talk about her new book, Alphabet in Motion. Join us! (We must celebrate and be the weird that we’re losing so much of in our city. RIP Koriente. RIP Recycled Reads. RIP the oak tree that artist Steve Parker transformed into playable records!)

    If you’re not in Austin, Texas and you want to hear me talk, I’m chatting with Author Insider Live on Monday (11/24) at noon central about how to keep making meaningful work in this noisy world. (In case you missed it, I wrote a book on the subject called Keep Going.)

  3. “In a world that’s on fire, what do we do with art? Like, what can music actually do?” I am a gigantic fan of Fela Kuti, so I’ve been looking forward to Jad Abumrad’s podcast series, Fela Kuti: Fear No Man. I finally listened to the first two episodes — on headphones! the mix is great! — and I’m hooked. (Favorite thing I’ve learned so far: allegedly, Fela’s band auditioned to be the house band on Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise ride… but they were deemed not African enough!)

  4. “Never give up. Never surrender!” That’s not a Fela lyric, that’s Galaxy Quest, our latest pizza night hit with the kiddos. (If you're a fan of the movie, you might like Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary.)

  5. I typed this bicycle haiku for Grant Snider’s Haikomics Anthology:

  6. “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” To give my brain-attic a rest, I’ve been reading a bunch of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. I read A Study in Scarlet, I’m now reading

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