Austin Kleon

In six months, you're going to know what kind of bike you really want.

But the most important thing is to have a bicycle.

With art, it's kind of like, well, you know, you get this paint and you don't know how it works.

And it's like, okay, well, we play with this paint and then we come up with something.

So for me, the typewriter, this is a long-winded way of saying, first, there's the typewriter.

Well, what the hell do you do with the typewriter nowadays?

Okay.

And then I have to admit, I love this writer named Joy Williams.

She is kind of off-grid.

And there was a site, and I forget, I think it's called Lit Hub.

And a writer, in order to interview Joy Williams, the only way they could do that is to send her questions on paper.

And she wrote back to them with her typewriter.

And they published the actual...

thing that she sent back and you i can send this to you like you'll find it real quick just put joy williams typewriter interview and i saw it and i thought god this is so fun and i was like but they're not gonna like make this a series so i was just like well i will so what happened was i thought who would be a great person to start there's another

woman that's probably, I don't know if they're in the same age range, but there's this poet that I love named Mary Ruffel, and she is the same way.

She doesn't like doing this, like Zoom stuff, but she will do a written

typewriter interview so i found out that she had a book coming out and what i know about writers is that's when you get them because they're at the mercy of their publicist it doesn't matter who it is so you know you reach out to their publicist and say hey i got a newsletter with this many people you know would mary like to do an interview so we started with mary ruffle we being me and it was so much fun and it's so fun to send people stuff through the mail

But the one thing I did is I thought about it and I was like, you know, everyone reads stuff on their phones now.

So I was like, you got to make sure the piece of paper will translate well to that screen.

And it'd be really cool if the paper was colored, if it was like yellow or something.