Roden

a monthly newsletter
written by Craig Mod

• 118
  

  September 2026
  Writing in 2026, Walking Europe

• 117
  

  August 2026
  Blood Robots For You and You and You

• 116
  

  August 2026
  Oooohhh Summer, How Much Risk Is a Useful Amount of Risk?

• 115
  

  June 2026
  Go Knicks, A Better Goodreads, 'Cheap' Killer Films

• 114
  

  May 2026
  NYC, Asheville TBOT Event

• 113
  

  May 2026
  New Japan, NYC, Soderbergh Bonanza, Too Much Movement

• 112
  

  March 2026
  Meditation, Language, and LLMs

• 111
  

  February 2026
  Memberships Year Seven, Nuclear Bombs, Solar Power

• 110
  

  December 2025
  Tokyo TBOT Event, Selling a House, 2026 in Brooklyn?

• 109
  

  November 2025
  Blank Spaces, Radicalized Offlineness, Curious Protagonists

• 108
  

  September 2025
  A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books

• 107
  

  August 2025
  Summer Heatray Days

• 106
  

  June 2025
  A Wonderful Book Tour Concludes

• 105
  

  May 2025
  Halfway Through the Tour, New Book of Photographs Now Out

• 104
  

  May 2025
  Things. Become. Other. Things.

• 103
  

  May 2025
  Hark, a Book Appears!

• 102
  

  March 2025
  Book Tour! The Good Place! A New Photo Book!

• 101
  

  February 2025
  Starred Reviews, New Pop-up, We've Always Been Idiots

• 100
  

  February 2025
  SP Year Six, Assistants

• 099
  

  January 2025
  Book Tour 2025, Attention, Social Media, Not Bullshit

• 098
  

  December 2024
  TBOT Pre-order Campaign: GO!

• 097
  

  November 2024
  Enrique Allen

• 096
  

  November 2024
  Voting For Train Man

• 095
  

  October 2024
  Kissa Launch Parties, Tony Tulathimutte, The Burmese Harp, Always Be Escalating

• 094
  

  September 2024
  Japanese Kissa by Kissa, Norm Maclean, Toni Morrison, Akiya in Japan, Howtown, Bobby Fingers, and more

• 093
  

  August 2024
  Cover Reveal — TBOT Random House

• 092
  

  July 2024
  Burnout? a TV Show, FM Radio, a Big Walk, and More

• 091
  

  May 2024
  New Pop-up Walk, Reading Digitally in 2024

• 090
  

  April 2024
  Smelting in the New York Times

• 089
  

  February 2024
  The Beautiful Meat Grinder and Scarcity Brain

• 088
  

  December 2023
  Goodnight 2023, What a Year, I love Antibiotics

• 087
  

  November 2023
  Things Become Other Things Become Books

• 086
  

  November 2023
  Tokyo Walk, TBOT Cover, Aloneness

• 085
  

  October 2023
  New Tokyo Walk, Fried Bologna, Louis Glück, Werner Herzog, Influenza

• 084
  

  September 2023
  Decisions, In-Person Joy, Mt. Fuji, Also — Skin Cancer

• 083
  

  August 2023
  The Random House Book Deal

• 082
  

  August 2023
  Sandwiches, Oppenheimer, Shooting Film

• 081
  

  June 2023
  A Jazz Tour, Literary Deaths, Sylvia Plath

• 080
  

  May 2023
  Media

• 079
  

  April 2023
  New York City

• 078
  

  March 2023
  Meemmberrrshhiippss!

• 077
  

  February 2023
  The Morioka Experience

• 076
  

  January 2023
  Walking TOKYO, New Print, More Drums

• 075
  

  January 2023
  Archetypes Revisited

• 074
  

  December 2022
  Afro-Cuban Kissa by Kissa

• 073
  

  November 2022
  Adult Summer Camp Sleepover Adventure

• 072
  

  September 2022
  Electric Bicycle Review, Leica M11 Mini-Fieldtest

• 071
  

  August 2022
  Pop-up Tokio Newsletter + New Print

• 070
  

  July 2022
  Summer Solitude

• 069
  

  June 2022
  Covid.

• 068
  

  April 2022
  New Essay in The New York Times

• 067
  

  April 2022
  Breaking Bad and Leicas

• 066
  

  March 2022
  Books, Nukes, Books, Atoms, Books

• 065
  

  February 2022
  Oh no, Memberships

• 064
  

  January 2022
  What's at Stake?

• 063
  

  December 2021
  Big Walks, Opioids, Short Films

• 062
  

  November 2021
  Indie Films, Indie Books

• 061
  

  October 2021
  K×K³ — Documentary Premiere (in 10 mins!)

• 060
  

  October 2021
  K×K³, The Selfie Pathology, Our Leader McPhee

• 059
  

  September 2021
  Stupid Life Tricks

• 058
  

  August 2021
  World Heritage Kissaten

• 057
  

  July 2021
  Pop-up Newsletters, Great Photo Books, Olympic Level Ennui, Vaxxing

• 056
  

  June 2021
  Big Walk Energy, Story Demystified, Film Review

• 055
  

  May 2021
  A Million Weird Tricks, a Few Centuries Distilled

• 054
  

  April 2021
  New WIRED Essay: Code & Therapy

• 053
  

  April 2021
  Pizza Toast Doc, Translating Murakami

• 052
  

  March 2021
  Look Closely, and then Closer Still

• 051
  

  February 2021
  Photo Newsletters, 4k Mirrorless Video, Toast-based NFTs, Nice Letters

• 050
  

  February 2021
  1,000 Member Horizon, Year Three, Q&A

• 049
  

  December 2020
  All the Flora and Fauna

• 048
  

  December 2020
  Creativity Bootcamp and the Long Walk

• 047
  

  November 2020
  A Big Walk, Book Success, Work as Protest

• 046
  

  October 2020
  Kissa — Second Edition and Book Goals

• 045
  

  October 2020
  Dingdong Mitigation

• 044
  

  September 2020
  Airflow is Life

• 043
  

  September 2020
  SOLD OUT Toast, Fuji X-T4, Emotional … Intelligence?

• 042
  

  August 2020
  Kissa. Book. Launch.

• 041
  

  June 2020
  Book World

• 040
  

  May 2020
  On Love and Stillness and Wizards

• 039
  

  April 2020
  Boules, Earning Tools, Photography News, Repetition

• 038
  

  April 2020
  A Single Link to a Website

• 037
  

  March 2020
  Pointers, Masterclasses, X100Vs, Billionaire Universities

• 036
  

  February 2020
  Goodbye Old Friend, Diamonds, Deleting All Your Tweets

• 035
  

  January 2020
  Membership Programs, Year Two

• 034
  

  December 2019
  Process: Words and Pictures and Walking

• 033
  

  December 2019
  Of Kissa and Toast

• 032
  

  December 2019
  Craftspeople, Craftsplaces, Craftsreading

• 031
  

  October 2019
  iPhone 11 Pro Photography, Backup Strategies, Ursula Le Guin

• 030
  

  September 2019
  Media Accounting 101: Appholes and Contracts

• 029
  

  August 2019
  Mastery

• 028
  

  July 2019
  Fast Software, Paid Newsletters, Novels

• 027
  

  June 2019
  Tiny Loops, Hold Me Closer

• 026
  

  May 2019
  710.14km Later

• 025
  

  April 2019
  A Retreat, a Walk, SMS Publishing, Advice to a Young Me

• 024
  

  February 2019
  CERN, Lisa-Brennan Jobs, Running with Murakami

• 023
  

  January 2019
  The Explorers Club Membership

• 022
  

  December 2018
  A New Mailing List, Goodbye Instagram?, Future Book Hello Again

• 021
  

  September 2018
  The Walk 'n Talk & the Camino de Santiago

• 020
  

  June 2018
  Japan Retreat, Walk & Talk, Culture + Identity

• 019
  

  May 2018
  Meditation & Blisters, Money on Medium, Parents in Japan

• 018
  

  April 2018
  Pilgrim Laundry, Rebel Girls, Sacred Mirrors

• 017
  

  March 2018
  A Walk in Japan, an Art Observatory, Therapy in Server Work

• 016
  

  November 2017
  Workshops, Retreats, and Residencies

• 015
  

  August 2017
  A Whole Lotta Vipassana

• 014
  

  August 2017
  Back From the Big City

• 013
  

  June 2017
  Vipassana Meditation, Leica M10, Acceptably Beautiful Books

• 012
  

  May 2017
  On Margins: A Podcast

• 011
  

  April 2017
  Pizza and Attention

• 010
  

  December 2016
  Residency Dispatch

• 009
  

  September 2016
  A Mountain Walk

• 008b
  

  December 2015
  Infinite Pilgrimage

• 008a
  

  December 2015
  How We're Reading (Responses from y'all)

• 007
  

  October 2015
  As We May Read

• 006
  

  May 2015
  A Fifteen Day Itinerary

• 005
  

  January 2015
  Mountain Snow, Fire Prayer

• 004
  

  December 2013
  THE INVOLUNTARY, RED STRINGS, JOHN CLEESE, LATIN WALKING

• 001
  

  December 2012
  COFFEE • SHOWA JAPAN • CLOCKS • INTERNET DIET • SMALL ROOMS • PARIS • SUSAN SONTAG

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