Take Note

Adam beams in from a room near the lobby of a Grand Cayman hotel room to discuss what we’ve been jotting in our notebooks, app boredom, school dropoff chaos, and book recommendations. And in a new feature, Radio Take Note, we offer up two songs that are worth sharing.  Book recommendations A Gentleman in Moscow Belcanto My Brilliant Friend Lonesome Dove The Adult All the Light We Cannot See A...

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Ted steps in it when comparing a local celebration to Mardi Gras, plus some impromptu haiku, real rodeo cowboy names, and notes from the baseball tournament. And a leading question: what pen is most like a pencil?  Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Uni Jetstream Edge Pentel sign pen Project 3.18’s Spring Training Story

Adam's Notebooks Just Tell Me Who It Was by John Cheever Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Jamelle Bouie favorite film genres Annhiliation by Jeff VanderMeer The Acid House by Irvine Welsh Pablo Delcan The Imperfectionist (Oliver Burkeman) The Secret Pentagon War Game…

It’s baseball season! To commemorate this happy time of year, Ted made an audio recording of an essay that he wrote in 2014 for a collection called “The Who, the What, and the When” put together by Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt LaMothe on the theme of historical sidekicks. Adam also contributed, as did Dan Kugler (underground legend for his work co-hosing the Slackers episode) and lots...

Notes from between 1606 and 1607, the beauty of alternate takes, using notebooks to refine ideas, and why the pencil is a Zen object.  Caravaggio essay, NYRB Wilco, A Ghost is Born box set Kafka’s Diaries zen

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Ryan joins us as we prep for the big game with our talk of oyster restaurants, middle school recitals, and Adam’s approach to a “logbook” to track movies watched, stories read, etc. Oysters in the New York Times Bakewell’s book on existentialism MJ Lenderman You Must Remember This podcast Patreon page (thanks for your support!)

In this episode we share notes from a Texas snowstorm, journals from the olden days spark creative, a dream journaling update, a new segment, and discuss the new work from John McPhee in the New Yorker. We also announce the new book we’ll read together and discuss. Please enjoy! Stationerdy notebook from Dapper Notes Ohto sharp pencil Tabula Rasa Volume Five by John McPhee Take Note book club, The...

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It’s 2025, we look at some year-starting notebooks, discuss how one might use the Notes app with paper notebooks, and share our slate of waddya gots. Ted’s audio changes a few minutes in, sorry about that! On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle Octavia Books, New Orleans Flights by olga tokarczuk Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Rose Matafeo Lamy Hardcover notebook with Lamy r...

In the last episode of 2024, we haphazardly bring the heat, rambling from one topic to the next. We range across used bookstores, endurance in art, a notebook of the week, and a exegesis on Sirius radio. Becker’s Books John K King Books, Detroit Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty BookedUP AC, originally Booked Up, Larry McMurtry’s bookstore in Archer City, Texas White Lines notebooks The Wo...

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We spend some time discussing writer Oliver Burkeman’s thoughts on time and tasks, but not before covering wood chipping wisdom, baked waiters, salsa spiciness, and fast food divorce. Oliver Burkeman

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Complicated Halloween party scenarios, track meets, notebook use cases, doing a little better every day: it’s all here this week. The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk Clairefontaine John Cheever stories Daily Stoic patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/takenote email us: takenotecentral@gmail.com   homepage: takenote.space

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Ryan Slie joins us as co-host this week for a rousing round of waddya gots and a discussion of NEW TEETH by Simon Rich.  takenote_pod We’re on Instagram New Teeth by Simon Rich Hold Your Breath on Hulu email us: takenotecentral@gmail.com   homepage: takenote.space

Ted and Adam dig into the mailbag, the email bag: reading a week of emails from 2014 to see what we can learn from ourselves. Old brands, office pools, and errant invitations. Al Pacino’s essay in the New Yorker Main Street Books, Davidson, NC

Adam and Ted bring their notebooks to middle school and concert hall and to middle age.  Help The Aged 2024 XOXO Field Notes Demetrius Oliver's "Aerial" Field Notes Glitch Edition Field Notes Index Edition The Third Man Colson Whitehead's Weird Little List How To Write A Mystery

Our notebooks are sandy and water-stained, beat up and full of notes from the summer as we look to the next season.  Three Potato Four Notebook Field Notes beer Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach Lauren Collins of the New Yorker An Editor’s Burial , a companion to the French Dispatch Paul Schrader on imdb email us: takenotecentral@gmail.com   homepage: takenote.space

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Adam’s got some game-changing comfort ideas; Field Notes has a beer out; titles of Tolkien; mystery book chit-chat; some podcast recommendations.  Goshi wash cloth Field Notes beer Reckon True Stories NYT 100 best of this century Shell Game

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We talk writing and music this week alongside our typical super-charged banter. And the notebook of the week! Fire Mike Miles Louise Gluck The Work of Art by Adam Moss Tabula Rasa: Volume Four by John McPhee in the New Yorker Story Club with George Saunders Waxahatchee Good Morning Charley Crockett DEHD NYT Magazine: How Khruangbin’s Sound Became the New Mood Music