Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura
If you’ve got too much soup in your bowl, you’ll likely end up reaching for a napkin. But if you have too many ideas in your head, you probably will, too.
That’s what napkins are there for: to mop up excess thoughts, scribbles, ideas, and emotions, along with more physical drips and dribbles. A Twitter-only publication, The Napkin, celebrates the wipe’s rich creative potential, publishing poetry, diagrams, short stories, sketches, and other ephemera, all done solely on napkins.Jordan Davis—who first started The Napkin back in 2014, and resuscitated it a few weeks ago—has a special appreciation for the way a napkin, as he puts it, “makes you put things down in a small square quickly without fussing too much over it.” While some people have made careers out of bringing true beauty and care to napkin art, successful submissions to The Napkin are generally quick and dirty. “The small space, the haste—all of that appeals directly to my aesthetic,” Davis says.
— The Napkin (@thenapkinletter)
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