Austin Kleon
@austinkleon.bsky.social
I’m a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com
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Austin Kleon
@austinkleon.bsky.social
· Oct 4
Fun living in a world where every new email — hell, every interaction online — is a Voight-Kampff test
Heard you don’t like that thing I like
January 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Heard you don’t like that thing I like
We’ve watched a movie with our kids every Friday night for the past five years. Here’s what we’ve learned: austinkleon.substack.com/p/12-tips-fo...
12 tips for a great family movie night
A dozen things we've learned from our favorite family ritual
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January 6, 2026 at 1:16 PM
We’ve watched a movie with our kids every Friday night for the past five years. Here’s what we’ve learned: austinkleon.substack.com/p/12-tips-fo...
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My annual top 100 list is up: austinkleon.com/2026/01/02/1...
100 things that made my year (2025) - Austin Kleon
In any year there’s some good stuff.
austinkleon.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
My annual top 100 list is up: austinkleon.com/2026/01/02/1...
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"You're too stupid to have a good time" Dalton was so real for that one
January 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
"You're too stupid to have a good time" Dalton was so real for that one
Short books to hit your yearly reading goals!
December 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Short books to hit your yearly reading goals!
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"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation."
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
December 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation."
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Will you edit your year-end roundup if something amazing happens in the next 3 days?
December 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Will you edit your year-end roundup if something amazing happens in the next 3 days?
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brb, someone’s at the door.
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
brb, someone’s at the door.
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Gary Giddins, on Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” to soldiers in Europe during the war.
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As he traveled in France, doing as many as five shows a day from the backs of flatbed trucks, he brought battle-hardened men to tears. The song they wanted to hear was "White Christmas": "If he opened the show with it to get it out of the way, he would just have to sing it twice." A Third Army medic wrote to a friend at home: " [W]hen he sang 'White Christmas' there wasn't a sound, not even breathing, and suddenly no one was looking at Crosby, but just at the ground and making a little wish.... And so back to our tents, but the men are smiling now."
Any time officers tried to horn in, Crosby shut them down: he was there for the enlisted men, and he made sure they got the best seats.
"Nothing in his life, he insisted, gave him as much
'pride and satisfaction' as making those 'guys happy for a few moments.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lhxkgqcfz7fdtslhnhwkc3f3/bafkreicr567wyuiocvpga5kzl37whdn6b4yludcnwe3ahyu7dq5ut3ufcq@jpeg)
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Gary Giddins, on Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” to soldiers in Europe during the war.
It’s Christmas break, I’ve finished my fourth volume of Sherlock Holmes, and now it’s time to start this one. Comfort and joy, dear Watson!
December 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s Christmas break, I’ve finished my fourth volume of Sherlock Holmes, and now it’s time to start this one. Comfort and joy, dear Watson!
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Benjamin Eakins and Samuel Murray with bicycles https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-eakins/benjamin-eakins-and-samuel-murray-with-bicycles-1899
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Benjamin Eakins and Samuel Murray with bicycles https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-eakins/benjamin-eakins-and-samuel-murray-with-bicycles-1899
Always loved Eddie Campbell on this and wish he’d completed his “The History of Humour” — these clips are from a zine I made
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Always loved Eddie Campbell on this and wish he’d completed his “The History of Humour” — these clips are from a zine I made
❤️❤️❤️
Anyhow, I wanted to sing Austin's praises, & to explain that to my knowledge Dean Young never recorded Being Alive. I had a blast answering these questions. & I love knowing Austin, & spotting his books in every museum gift shop I ever visit.
austinkleon.substack.com/p/typewriter...
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Typewriter interview with Elizabeth McCracken
10 questions for the author about writing fiction
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December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
❤️❤️❤️
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Elizabeth McCracken Doesn’t Want You to Buy Cowboy Boots in Austin
www.vogue.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Approaching Christmas like
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Approaching Christmas like
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Walking into 2026
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Walking into 2026
Ah I see that you didn’t like the thing that I liked
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Ah I see that you didn’t like the thing that I liked
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Althea & Donna performing Uptown Top Ranking on #TOTP in 1977. Listen to a playlist of tracks that use the same "I'm Still in Love" riddim here
🇯🇲❤️🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2hQ...
🇯🇲❤️🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2hQ...
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Althea & Donna performing Uptown Top Ranking on #TOTP in 1977. Listen to a playlist of tracks that use the same "I'm Still in Love" riddim here
🇯🇲❤️🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2hQ...
🇯🇲❤️🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2hQ...
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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In many cities, few to no stars are visible at night. Our starlessness erects one further barrier between us and the nonhuman world, and removes the historically lived nightly reminder that we are a small part of something much, much larger than ourselves. I truly believe this causes psychic damage
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In many cities, few to no stars are visible at night. Our starlessness erects one further barrier between us and the nonhuman world, and removes the historically lived nightly reminder that we are a small part of something much, much larger than ourselves. I truly believe this causes psychic damage
It’s been 14 years, but almost every week I think about @ftrain.bsky.social’s “Why Wasn’t I Consulted?” as an explanation for otherwise bewildering / annoying responses from folks online
austinkleon.com/2019/02/03/w...
austinkleon.com/2019/02/03/w...
Why wasn’t I consulted?
austinkleon.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s been 14 years, but almost every week I think about @ftrain.bsky.social’s “Why Wasn’t I Consulted?” as an explanation for otherwise bewildering / annoying responses from folks online
austinkleon.com/2019/02/03/w...
austinkleon.com/2019/02/03/w...
Great piece.
I wrote about why cutting Kill Bill in half might have cost Uma Thurman an Oscar, and how the new 4 1/2-hour version makes whole the greatest performance of her career.
Kill Bill Is Back in Theaters in a New Version. It’ll Never Play the Same.
The Whole Bloody Affair changed the way I saw Tarantino’s epic revenge film—and so did the reporting about its making.
slate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Great piece.