FYI #24

• 2024 Stella Prize winner announced, Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy.

• Looking forward to Olivia Laing’s new book, The Garden Against Time: in search of a common paradise, reviewed in The Observer

• Winning the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion has thrust Archie Moore into the global spotlight and with him, 65,000 years of history, via ABC Arts

• New ‘Tiny Desk’ host reveals what the future holds for NPR’s popular music series, via PBS Newshour.

• The digital version of the Story Factory’s Prescription Poetry. The young poets will be at the Sydney Writer’s Festival again this year.

• What does music mean to you? A lovely video from the ACO.

• The Revenge of the Home Page, by Kyle Chayka, via the New Yorker

• How Did Goodreads Get So Bad?, Anne Helen Petersen speaks with book critic Maris Kreizman, on the Culture Study podcast

• Sinead Gleeson speaking about her new (and first) novel, Hagstone, with Octavia Bright, on Open Book (Radio 4). I’m a fan of Gleeson’s writing and her taste in books.

• The latest episode of Konfekt Korner inspired me to add Noreen Masud’s book, A Flat Place, to my reading list.

• The Director’s Chair: Leigh Sales on journalism, the United States and not interviewing Trump, in conversation with Lowy Institute Executive Director, Michael Fullilove