Baseball writer and storyteller Paul Jackson of Project 3.18 joins us to discuss his project, wherein he serves up truly fabulous true stories from baseball’s past. The kind of stories you’ll tell and re-tell at fantasy baseball drafts.  Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende  Project 3.18 by Paul Jackson. Baseball stories! an ill-fated night of Cleveland baseball flour-bombing at Chavez Ravine Jim McManus A’s to play in Sacramento Legatoria Polleria, Venice

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Field Notes Flora Edition Emmy Star Brown Jenna Blazevich Pentel Sign Pen via Austin Kleon Uni Style Fit Motion

Trips to the museum, business dinners, digging into Ted’s pen haul from Jet Pens. Picasso at the Art Institute Werner Herzog’s book George Saunders substack Pilot ILMILY Sakura Ballsign Ohto FUDE Tick and Pick

Field Notes Foiled Again EnerGel Euro Needle-Point UniStyle Fit Slim Gel Pen TomBow Air Press Ballpoint Sakura Ballsign Gel Pen TomBow Mono Graph Lite Ballpoint Kinokuniya Bookstore Lauren Laverne on House Music Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters Josh Ritter Sermon on the Rocks Kehinde Wiley Notebook Believer Issue 40

We dig into our book club read Vertigo by WG Sebald, share our notebook of the week, and more.  The Vaster Wilds by the master Lauren Groff Denim jacket stuff on our newsletter ABOUT: BLANKS, our notebook of the week Boston General Store The Locavore by Caroline Weaver Peter Mendelsund Vertigo edition with Mendulsund cover Take Note episode about Slacker Sebald obituary, NYtimes Support the podcast via Patreon

Papermate Flair Making Comics by Lynda Barry Three Potato Four Notebook Across the Moominverse Weird Science

The Vertigo by WG Sebald reading project continues, Adam pushes Mitt, and Ted has a denim jacket project. Vertigo by WG Sebald, book club! Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley Foundation by Isaac Asimov the only Bob Dylan patch

Gabbert Quote and Olives Pic Deep Vellum D For Dapper The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert Exteriors by Annie Ernaux World Within A Song by Jeff Tweedy  Vertigo by WG Sebald

Adam adjusts to getting glasses for distance and gives small business the business.  Write notebooks Field Notes Patreon: jump in to receive the annual commonplace zine

The Official Netflix Cookbook Amazon Has Hollywood's Worst Shows but it's Best Business Model Field Notes Birch Bark Field Notes Heartland Dan McCarthy

Dapper Notes – Enon Avital’s unique, beautiful notebooks covered in lush paper and fabric and filled with excellent paper – occupy a special place in the notebook landscape. Brimming with color and texture, they elevate the pocket notebook to an art form, and the hand of their creator quite literally graces every book. Enon is that creator, and we had a lovely time learning why he started producing beautiful books, the pleasure he takes in sharing the process, and the care he takes in creating objects that are inherently unexpected. Dapper Notes

Candy Cane Green Tea Clairefontaine Mini Notebooks Pocket Leuchttturm Evan Osnos' China's Age of Malaise Apple Store Employees Can't Use These Words Essayism Sara Levine Lindsay Hunter's Hot Springs Drive Maria Bamford Wilco at Metro

Ted and Adam hone their predatory instincts by writing daily poems. Field Notes Foiled Again Megatherium Creature Conservancy Daniel Clowes - Monica Last of the Summer Wine Patreon Email us at takenotecentral@gmail.com

Lemn Sissay Lemn Sissay and Lebogang Mashile on Start the Week The Trumpet of the Swan How Emilly Wilson Made Homer Wilson Modern Emily Wilson YouTube Field Notes Birch Bark  Field Notes Shelterwood Robert Frost Birches Vandals Who Trashed Robert Frost's Home Take Poetry Classes as Penance Dromgoole's Clairefontaine Collection Atlas Stationers' Clairefontaine Collection Sakura BallSign ID Blackwing Matte Erasable Podcast

Ted and Adam navigate numerous potential false memories. Adam remembers his trip to Poland – and a unique stationery store – quite well. Adam also runs through a haul of Japanese stationery.  Texas Instruments model 104 watch Top Drawer Helvetica pen Midori Grain memo pad Olga Tokarczuk Ro-Biki notebook Kinokuniya Katy

Field Notes Tin O Darts Field Notes Harvest Daniel Johnston and Wilco Field Notes Foiled Again Retirement the Margaritaville Way

Summer is almost over, so what could be more appropriate than breaking down the stories in the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue? Ryan Slie joins us, to our delight. Sign up for the Substack newsletter! Field Notes DDC Standard Issue Factory Floor  Elton John’s “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” Houston Astro Bill Doran Field Notes Kraft - Amber Dapper Notes

Walking In Memphis "The Midnight Zone" by Lauren Groff Lauren Groff New Novel Raymond Chandler by Anthony Fowles Birnam Wood by Eleanor Cattan 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Oliver Burkeman Archive at The Guardian Dickerson on the Urgent/Important Matrix

Summer is in full swing as we read strange letters, overhear videos in strange places, look for Gogol in strange stores, and ever so much more. Some Came Running Lauren Groff  Georges Simenon JustWatch Field Notes Dapper Notes Mulholland Drive Always Take Notes

Solarpunk Judge John Hodgman: This is the Name of Your Mullet Galveston Railroad Museum Field Notes Coffee Farm Costa Rica Field Notes DDC Logos Dave Eggers on Maurice Sendak Jesse Ball Arthur Bradford's Dogwalker Adam's June 2023 Playlist (Apple Music) (Spotify) The Wager by David Grann The Collected Maxims of W.G. Sebald Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay