The end of the tour

In this week's newsletter: how art changes what you see, reading recommendations, and more...

In this week's newsletter: how art changes what you see, reading recommendations, and more... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, The Keep Going Tour is officially over. Here I am in a post-tornado Iowa City, celebrating with a Butterfinger Blizzard. A huge thank you to everybody who came out. I enjoyed myself, but it's nice to be off the road and back at it. Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:  Art changes what you see.   This week I read Tillie Walden's cosmic love comic, On A Sunbeam. It's really good. Check out the New Yorker's profile on the "shockingly young" cartoonist. Gonna be so fun to see what she does yet.    I also read Jaime Hernandez's excellent comic, The Love Bunglers, and the followup, Is This How You See Me? (It took me a while to get into the Love and Rockets oeuvre, but I'm a big fan now.)    From my archives: "We are verbs, not nouns." (This blog post is an example of how much you learn after you put out a book.)   I'm a gigantic fan of the movie Amadeus, so it was illuminating to read Alex Ross's piece about how the composer Salieri got a bad rap and is making a comeback. (I dig how Ross does footnotes on his blog.)    My helpful mantra for travel or doing creative work: "Who cares if I get anywhere?"   I have read Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day out loud more times than I care to think about, so it was a trip to hear the almost-90-year-old author's life advice.   Ear candy: On my recent trip to Vancouver, I alternated between walking around to Idles' Joy as an Act of Resistance (totally NSFW) and listening to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II on the plane.   Eye candy: Tuca & Bertie makes me laugh.    RIP writer Tony Horwitz. He was only 60 and died on book tour. (Gulp.) His local paper has a nice obit. I read Confederates in the Attic years ago and my wife was already reading Spying on the South when news of his death came. I want to pick up A Voyage Long and Strange next. Thanks for reading. If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to someone who'd like it or, even better, buy them 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 © 2019 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 19885 Detroit Road Box #222 Rocky River, OH 44116 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.)