2025-05-07 08:00:00
Ridgeline subscribers — That’s Things Become Other Things, up in the window of what is — IMHO — one of the greatest bookstores in the world. I think it’s worth taking a beat to note why the store feels so good and, ultimately, how deceptively simple the ingredients of that goodness are. The store in question is Three Lives & Company. It’s a great name. In a great little neighborhood (the West Village (Manhattan)) which puts it off to a great start.
2025-05-06 08:00:00
Roden Readers — It’s out. Almost four years to the day I started my big Kii walk in 2021 (it began on May 10), today — May 6 — marks the release of the Random House edition of Things Become Other Things. This has been a crazy monumental undertaking. I’m so happy with where it landed and I can’t wait for you to read it. You can pick it up in all the usual spots:
2025-05-04 08:00:00
Ridgeline subscribers — Hello! Many of you are new subs from Tim-san and our pod recordings last month. I’m Craig Mod and this is Ridgeline, a newsletter ostensibly about walking, and ostensibly weekly, but recently, not so much. Life has been full. The last one of these I sent (last month) dove into the Walk and Talk I ran with Kevin Kelly in Spain in March. This one is simply a notice that my new book, Things Become Other Things, comes out from Random House in two days (Tuesday, May 6).
2025-05-02 08:00:00
Roden Readers — Howdy! From the sky! En route to NYC! I’m Craig Mod and this is Roden, a newsletter sent via magic tubes. Since returning from Spain I’ve been in full-bore April Pod Mode, recording a dozen+ interviews and working on a bunch of essays for various publications in service to the forthcoming launch of my new book (did ya hear?) Things Become Other Things. Which, by the way, COMES OUT IN FIVE DAYS.
2025-04-14 08:00:00
Ridgeline subscribers — Heeeeeeellllloooooooo to the many many many many new subscribers who came from the Tim Pod(s). Welcome. I’m Craig, and this is Ridgeline (my newsletter focused on walking (Roden, the other newsletter is more general)), which is supposed to be a weekly thing, but … wow, am I ever bowled under with to-dos in preparation for the launch of my book Things Become Other Things. We are a mere THREE WEEKS!
2025-03-23 08:00:00
Roden Readers — Hi hi hi from Madrid. This was the first city I visited abroad on a random near miraculous-seeming (now in hindsight) high school Spanish class trip some thirty years ago. That trip felt like a horse — one raised on churros and jamón — had kicked open the barn doors of my forehead. Walking Madrid: That was it. I was leaving America. Felt that in my bones. Where to, I didn’t know, but I was out.