Having seen Endgame and Waiting for Godot, I’d have to admit that I find these notebooks much more interesting than Beckett’s actual plays! See more at A Rare Look at Samuel Beckett’s Doodle-Filled Notebooks | Brain Pickings.
Here’s something that will ring a bell for many of you, as it did for me. It’s amazing how you can lose track of your tidying up when you get lost in the memories that old notebooks conjure up! So here it is another new year, and here I am once again, picking up and … Continue reading Notebooks that Lead Down Memory Lane
Country singer Hayes Carll talks about how certain kinds of notebooks make you think you’ll fill them with great stuff… sounds like he’s a notebook addict! Do you keep a journal now? I’m pretty bad about it. I have a certain embarrassment over my own writing. It’s odd, because it’s the thing that no … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Hayes Carll and Optimism
Catching up on my correspondence again! Allegra Newman writes to tell us about her book, 365 Things to Write About: “[The book] offers exactly 365 people, places, object, and ideas on blank, lined pages where people can write their responses. My writing partner and I created it as a different way to jumpstart our brains … Continue reading From the Mailbag
I recently came across an article in which the writer celebrates keeping a notebook. But there was one passage that really surprised me: Another thing that makes my notebook unique and interesting is the open access to its pages. While diaries are revered as the fiefdom of one man’s innermost thoughts and deep, dark secrets, … Continue reading A Public Notebook?
I enjoyed this article, which makes some great observations about writing in notebooks vs. on a computer, or even a typewriter: Everything I’ve ever written was composed in notebooks first. I have hundreds of them filled with my scribbles tucked away in boxes. I also buy them obsessively, so I probably have just as many … Continue reading In Praise of Notebook and Pen for Creative Writing
This sounds like a fun event… and it’s at one of my favorite NYC stationery stores. Maybe I’ll see you there! How many stories can be written with a box of 400 different words? How many can you create? Join author and host of the Happy Ending Reading Series, Amanda Stern, and MoMA educator and … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Moleskine Words Comes to New York City
This week’s addict posted a photo of this lovely shelf on her blog: Â Cacy asks: Are you a pen-and-paper person? Or do you go straight to the computer and start tp-tp-tptptp-ing away? Me? I love a good notebook. What is it about the chaos of keeping my ideas in barely legible writing across a … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Cacy
An interesting article in the New York Times about the writer and performance artist Spalding Gray, whose widow read his journals after his death. Gray, possibly the most celebrated neurotic of our time, kept private journals throughout his long career. Kathleen Russo, who is Gray’s widow and the mother of his children, read the journals … Continue reading Spalding Gray’s Journal
I loved this little item from the Lumina News: The legendary mailbox at the north end of Wrightsville Beach found a new home after Hurricane Irene. Twice. First installed beside a north end dune in 2003 by Bernie and Sidney Nykanen, the couple inscribed the phrase: “Leave a Note” on the mailbox door. Inside was … Continue reading A Public Journal on a North Carolina Beach