Episode 120: A Student of Institutions

We are joined by Ryan Slie to discuss the fiftieth edition of Field Notes, Blackwing's Independent Bookstore pencils, and how these companies differentiate between their quarterly editions and their collaborations that don't go to subscribers. We also shop the closet to appreciate some slightly older stationery items.

• Ryan Slie at Fancy Chimpanzee

• Cesar Aira's Ghosts

• Jonathan Lethem's "The Crooked House"

• Pleonasm

• Nanami Seven Seas Notebook

• Letts Travelers

• Standard Memorandum 2021

• Field Notes End Papers

• Field Notes Fifty

• Pop-Tone paper has been used in Field Notes Just Below Zero, Packet of Sunshine, and Sweet Tooth editions

• Main Street Books, Davidson, NC

• Blackwing Independent Bookstore Pencils