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The grown-up version of the magazines you loved as a kid—fun, fascinating, uncynical, and human. No ads. No A.I. PaperAirplane.pub
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Editorial meetings can get intense but later we snuggle.
A photo of an editor at his desk turning to say something to his cat, who appears to be insisting on a particular point by putting his paw on a legal pad. Also, his tail is curled in a very cute way.
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I just nominated Paper Airplane’s lead article, “The Shape of Color” by @korystamper.bsky.social, for next year’s Best American Science & Nature Writing! Here’s a preview.
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Microfiction? Too long. Six-word short stories? Hold our baby shoes. With the right context, you can conjure an entire saga with just a few words. It’s called Venmo Nanofiction, and it’s just one of the madcap amusements awaiting you in the debut issue of Paper Airplane magazine.
A page from Paper Airplane magazine with the following text: Some of your friends have their Venmo feeds set to public. Every occasion to repay them for brunch is also an opportunity to generously increase their mystique among their peers. With just a few carefully chosen words, you can pack maximum narrative intrigue into every transaction note. Use these samples to start crafting your own entries in the genre I like to call Venmo Nanofiction. By Dave Shay salmon cannon adapters Bisquick for the bankruptcy tailgate 9V batteries and Sprite (cadaver prank) gondola racing certification Municipal hexagon audit Rural Mailbox Magazine, 48-month subscription borscht allergy alibi legal fees for Tailgate-gate mannequin removal seawater
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A page from a yellow legal pad with the following text: How I Spent My Layoff Sabbatical Rode my bike. Played with Legos. Chopped a lot of wood. Applied for hundreds of jobs. Chaperoned my kids’ field trips. Did some freelance fact-checking. Posted a semi-viral video of my cat. Kayaked the entirety of my local creek. Helped stand up a hyperlocal print magazine. Made repairs to all the broken stuff around the house. Designed a T-shirt for my favorite independent radio station. Came up with a magazine concept: “Highlights, but for adults.” Pitched it to the delightful folks at Highlights magazine. Got turned down in a genuinely supportive way. Decided to just launch my own magazine. Recruited some awesome contributors. Launched my own magazine. It’s called Paper Airplane. You can get it right now. At PaperAirplane.pub. Thanks for reading. Sincerely, Nick
September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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*Smuggling smoked provolone into a No Smoked Provolone Zone*



“HEY, you there, you got smoked provolone in that bag?”

[Nervously] “Ha ha, in THIS bag? Nope, no way, no smoked provolone in here, nosiree.”
A bag of cheese labeled "NOT SMOKED PROVOLONE"
August 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Wordplayers, hear me out: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but instead of connecting actors, you connect words. From the debut issue of Paper Airplane magazine: I attempt to link “Kevin” to “bacon” in just six steps.
August 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Flawless recipe for summer. Just substitute "school book" with "phone." #LMM>LLM
A page from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery with the following text: When Anne got home that night she stacked all her text-books away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box. “I’m not even going to look at a schoolbook in vacation,” she told Marilla. “I’ve studied as hard all the term as I possibly could and I’ve pored over that geometry until I know every proposition in the first book off by heart, even when the letters are changed. I just feel tired of everything sensible and I’m going to let my imagination run riot for the summer. Oh, you needn’t be alarmed, Marilla. I’ll only let it run riot within reasonable limits. But I want to have a real good jolly time this summer, for maybe it’s the last summer I’ll be a little girl. Mrs. Lynde says that if I keep stretching out next year as I’ve done this I’ll have to put on longer skirts. She says I’m all running to legs and eyes. And when I put on longer skirts I shall feel that I have to live up to them and be very dignified. It won’t even do to believe in fairies then, I’m afraid; so I’m going to believe in them with all my whole heart this summer.
August 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Almost every afternoon, my cat Rolo nudges my legs under my desk to signal that it’s time for me to pick him up and hold him while he purrs loudly and does “air muffins” and I just sit there without trying to think or do anything for several minutes. This is the best creative advice I can offer.
August 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Wordsmiths: Enjoy this word puzzle—by acclaimed author Alec Nevala-Lee!—from the debut issue of Paper Airplane magazine.
A word puzzle page titled “Period Pieces.” The instructions say to excavate and assemble buried letters (in order) from the name of each geological period to answer the clues.
August 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Can you ESCAPE THIS PAGE using only the clues hidden in the map? Hint: You’ll probably need some hints. Get hints (and the full-page map) in the debut issue of Paper Airplane, only available at PaperAirplane.pub.
Puzzle by @pzlr.org. Map art by @laurbarian.bsky.social.
An illustrated fantasy map with a key and labels of various features and landmarks.
July 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Summertime is for getting lost on purpose.
A portion of an elaborate maze with many details, including bodies of water filled with sharks, ships, and sea monsters. A portion of an elaborate maze showing a waterfall, a ship, and a sea monster. A portion of an elaborate maze showing many details, including a whale, staircases, and the finish line.
July 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The exact opposite of doomscrolling
The table of contents page in the debut issue of Paper Airplane magazine, including sections titled Q&A, Article, Art, Infographics, List, Comics, Wordplay, Games, Photos, and Activities.
July 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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There are two buttons.
An image of two buttons. One says "Generate," as in "Generate with A.I." The other says: "Start from scratch; accumulate years of ideas, instincts, and experience; collaborate with people whose ideas, instincts, and experiences diverge wildly from your own; learn from the messiness, the dead ends, the mistakes, the endless revisions that reveal the connections you’d never have found without embracing imperfection and every hard part along the way, because, as a flawed but fully human person once wisely said, the hard is what makes it great."
June 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If you like 2 things in this picture, you’ll love Paper Airplane.
If you like 4 or more things in this picture, you’ll LOVE Paper Airplane.
If you like any of the things in this picture, Paper Airplane loves YOU.
Some of the sources of inspiration behind Paper Airplane magazine, including copies of Highlights magazine, Calvin and Hobbes, The Believer magazine, Mad magazine, the Whole Earth Catalog, and the book How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.
June 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#PaperAirplane is here!

It’s the grown-up version of the magazines you loved as a kid.

Writing, games, comics, photos, art, and activities by a dream team of contributors.

No cynicism.

No ads.

No A.I.

Available exclusively at PaperAirplane.pub by donating to support refugees and immigrants.
A GIF of Paper Airplane magazine showing a rotating preview of pages.
June 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Believe me when I tell you that this thing has been burning a hole in my pocket, so I'm wildly excited to announce:

Paper Airplane magazine vol. 1 arrives TOMORROW, Tuesday, June 24, exclusively at PaperAirplane.pub!

Here’s the first look at the cover art by the amazing @kaitlinbrito.bsky.social
Paper Airplane magazine cover. An ice cream vendor on the beach holds up a cone toward an ice cream-shaped cloud.
June 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Haha nice try, A.I. You wish it were hypothetical.

Paper Airplane magazine is very real, very A.I.-free, and arriving very soon at paperairplane.pub.
An AI-generated search summary that says: "In conclusion, the term "paper airplane magazine" is most likely a metaphorical phrase or could refer to an inflight magazine or a hypothetical publication"
June 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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When you don’t know what to do, make stuff. (Reminder courtesy of my bored 8-year-old.)
A kid's handwritten note that says "I don't know what to do!" with every character made into a sad face.
June 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM