Austin Kleon

So like popped off the white screen.

And so that was like, I was like, okay, cool.

Because you don't want to do like a big piece of typing paper and send it to someone and then put that online because you just can't read that.

It's too hard.

But if you give them like a smaller little piece of paper, you can read that on your phone.

Anyway, this is in the weeds.

But like this is the kind of thing is you take someone's idea.

This is kind of a steal like an artist thing.

It's like you take someone's idea that they really only did once that they're not going to do more of it.

And you say, actually, we could do a whole thing with this.

And so after Mary...

I thought, well, who would be good after that?

I was like, oh, this writer I know named Elisa Gabbert, who's a poet who also writes essays that I know loves Mary Ruffo.

I can get her to do one because she'll be like, oh, I'm after Mary Ruffo.

So it spiraled from there, and now we've done 20 of them, which doesn't seem like much, but I only want to publish one once a month because I think that's fun.

But I literally have a dozen typewriter interviews in the mail right now and various people...

I've looked at all of them.

I mean, I love them.

I don't know that people really, this is the thing.

It's like, I don't know how much I think people like them.