Weekly newsletter: It’s not a vacation, it’s a trip

This week: how Instagram lies, what real wealth is, and more... 

This week: how Instagram lies, what real wealth is, and more... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, Happy and honestly relieved to be back from a two-week vacation. Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:  The pain of traveling with kids and how photographs lie.   The Believer has a new website with its entire archive online for free. There's so much good stuff in there, but I'd like to shout out Paul Collins' 2004 essay, "The Lost Symphony," which contained a lot of research I used for the history section of my first book, Newspaper Blackout.   I didn't get much reading done in the past two weeks, but I did manage to finish John McPhee's Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, which was very good. (I also reread Sam Anderson's great profile of him.)   Summer boredom and making art out of bugs.   I was delighted by how many people sent me this video of Kraftwerk performing live with an astronaut in space. Y'all really know me.   An appreciation of Creedence Clearwater Revival.   The novelist Elizabeth Arthur has reissued some of her long-out-of-print novels.    Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine shows off his guitars and how he discovered his sound. Made me want to go crank Loveless and give MBV another listen.   So sad to hear that food critic Jonathan Gold died. If you haven't watched the documentary about him, City Of Gold, I highly, highly recommend it. Here are remembrances from Ruth Reichl, Ann Friedman, and Helen Rosner, and here's a cut-up eulogy for him made out of his restaurant reviews. What a cool guy. (Why do the good ones keep leaving us?)   Remember: Real wealth is never having to spend time with assholes. Thanks for reading! If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to a friend, tweet me some love, or, best of all, buy a book! If you're seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here. xoxo,  Austin Austin Kleon is the author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. Subscribe to this newsletter   Copyright © 2018 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 4301 W. William Cannon Dr. Suite B 150 #241 Austin, TX 78749 You're getting this email because you signed up for it at austinkleon.com. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Amazon Affiliate links offset the cost of sending these missives. (And pay for diapers.)