Last point before I return to my unplanned social-media sabbatical: do not buy this book at Amazon if you can avoid it. Try:

In Canada: www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781804...

In the US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

You know it’s good just from the groups she surveys: the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), ACT UP, Top Value Television (TVTV), Agnes Denes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Dyke Action Machine!, fierce pussy, Project Row Houses, Nan Goldin’s PAIN.

Mine is not the only event, and here’s a list of where she’ll be talking about it sooner: laurenoneillbutler.substack.com/p/new-book-a...

I am speaking with Lauren at Type Books in Toronto at the end of the summer! We’ve been friends for 27 years and this is our first public event together! I am excited, as the exclamation marks suggest.

Funnily enough, I’m also in Canada and found your feed via a search for “TWSBI 580.” I’m navigating my midlife crisis with notebooks & pens, and in the past month have settled on a regular-size TN and yesterday I bought my third pen, a TWSBI 580 Diamond AL R in “nickel" (EF nib). 🤝✒️📔🇨🇦

I’m likewise earnest enough to drop in my favorite guide:

www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citati...

First pen, a LAMY Safari Dark Dusk (EF), purchased May 15. Second pen, a Kaweco AL Sport (Anthracite; F), purchased May 31. 😬🫣

👂🏻👂🏻 thanks! I hope these past few weeks you’ve been getting the responses you hoped for!

New albums from Al Wootton, Abul Mogard, Deaf Center, Warmth, Heinali, Ellen Arkbro, and Laura Cannell—it’s an ambient/experimental lover’s dream week. Plus Sonnyjim, a Keith Jarrett live set, Andy Shauf’s Foxwarren, Budos Band, Alan Sparhawk … it goes on and on. So much to savor. 🎶

I’m about two weeks ahead of you and have a growing list of pens to buy next …

I don’t think so! I opened it up and tried to share an article and it copied the URL to the clipboard. GL parses text and images, so you could conceivably manually copy-and-paste to get that back out. But it’s not like a .webarchive / full copy. I'm a RR user, so you might want to sniff around more.

– Readwise Reader is the power-user’s tools, with good parsing, many integrations, customization
– Matter is the best–designed, but a little too heavy on AI & recommendations for my taste
– GoodLinks is great if you're Apple-only and don’t need to easily get highlights out

Here’s a new iteration your followers in NYC might want to sign up for, if they missed the first round (from @laurel.bsky.social):

ultralight.school/classes/walk...

Don’t know if this is exactly right, but I was recently looking at pen cases on Galen Leather’s site. Here’s its Field Notes covers:

www.galenleather.com/collections/...

I've just arrived at the standard TN after a very long journey over two decades (Moleskine → L1917 → Stalogy → Hobonichi →). About a week in and very happy thus far …

That’s a lovely drawing! I saw it because I follow the Hobonichi feed. By coincidence an artist friend of mine was on Dutch TV a few days ago talking about his new book, which focuses on butterflies: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCcD...

archive.is/h16MV

🤝🏻

Happy to recommend bookstores and coffee shops and bakeries and the like in Toronto, to round out your trip!

The Lamy Safari Dark Dusk special edition got me yesterday, after years of lurking …