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Excited to support you with this new book!

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PS: I have them all and impatiently await the next.

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Congratulations on the new book - wonderful news. :-)

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Can't wait to buy and read your new book. Congratulations!

I think you might like the new Robert Longo exhibition, "The Acceleration of History" at the Milwaukee Art Museum. His stunning, monumental charcoal drawings pair well with the other new exhibition, LaToya M. Hobbs, "Carving Out Time." Her woodcut prints are 8 X 12 feet (!) and the actual woodcuts are part of the exhibition. This morning I listened to Robert Longo on the podcast "A Brush With..." and I thought you would like it. (The podcast also has a William Kentridge episode.)

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As a super fan of classic era horror films (Anything up to Night of the Living Dead) I applaud your choice of Cat People. Lewton films are beautiful indeed. The director Jacques Tourneur is the principle reason why. Another of Tourneur's films that I love is Night of the Demon (Kate Bush fans will recognize a famous line in the film) it's not quite as shadow laden as Cat People or Walked with a Zombie but like Cat People in particular builds the tension beautifully.

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Feel free to hit us with more of your favorites!

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Congrats on the new book! I’m so happy you’ve had the space and time. Can’t wait to crack it open someday.

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Congratulations!!

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Pretty humble way to tell us about your new book. Creating with kids is possibly the most soul feeding activity there is. Congratulations. I know you’ll let us know when it’s time to preorder.

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Love today’s letter…so much to glean ❤️❤️❤️

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Yay!!!! Congratulations!!!!

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Oct 25Liked by Austin Kleon

Congrats on the new book! Thanks for the Halloween Nuggets reminder, I’ve been meaning to check that out after seeing it in the Goner Records newsletter. Plus I need to listen to the Numero Group’s new Halloween comp and I’m way overdue to revisit Halloween Hootenanny…

Numero Group Haunted Presence

(wide range of genres, culled from Numero’s various reissues)

https://open.spotify.com/album/53CRkm6o3Q6CwPObXPXdzG?si=4Oyu0MknQq2yhj3tF4zukg

https://music.apple.com/us/album/haunted-presence/1759049601

Halloween Hootenanny

(garage/surf/instro/retro from the late ‘90s courtesy of Rob Zombie’s Zombie-a-Go-Go label)

https://open.spotify.com/album/7xbEDCU4OTLtq2rrpog79t?si=sXHLJTCtT9qBnDjyrv90fg

https://music.apple.com/us/album/halloween-hootenanny/1444107788

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Awesome, thanks!

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I was thinking about your October 'vibe' mixtape, and I'm not sure there's a better candidate for this than Radiohead. About a third of their catalogue could hit the October vibe through atmosphere (All of Kid A, Amnesiac) to the straight up spooky (We Suck Young Blood, Wolf at the Door, Spinning Plates)...It just got me thinking about the time each year I usually start listening to them again and it tends to be around the time the colors turn. Interesting.

Congrats on the book! Can't wait!

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KID A is a winter record for me because I drove to a Sam Goody in Chillicothe Ohio in the snow to buy it on CD the day it came out LOL

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Ha! Love that. That’s actually a good point that it does feel more like a winter record as a whole. The artwork aesthetic and cold production definitely supports that. There’s an eerie mood on How To Disappear and In Limbo that feels very October still.

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Congrats on the new book!!!

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!!!!! Can’t wait—

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Congratulations on your new book. BTW, I’m reading this newsletter from Paris, France!

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Congratulations on the new book, Austin!

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