FYI #25
‘Scottish artist receives hundreds of copies of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the post’, via The Guardian. Project by artist Hans K Clausen, who is building The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth
Release of the Sydney Film Festival (June 5 - 16) program.
‘Uncanny notes that plague this place’: Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson, reviewed, via The Spinoff. I enjoyed Gleeson’s new book, Hagstone.
The review above led me to a London Review Bookshop conversation between writers Brian Dillon and Jennifer Higgie, which inspired me to pick up Dillon’s book Affinities and Higgie’s The Other Side.
I also enjoyed a conversation Higgie had, on the same podcast, with Lavinia Greenlaw. Greenlaw’s book of ‘exploded essays’ (her description), The Vast Extent, is excellent
Dua Lipa On: Radical Optimism, Falling On Stage, And “Writing Yourself Into A Good Idea”, with Dan Harris on his Ten Percent Happier podcast. Dua Lipa’s Service95 platform looks like a good source of book recommendations.
‘Writer Olivia Laing's quest for a personal Eden in her Suffolk garden’, via House & Garden. I’m looking forward to Laing’s new book, The Garden Against Time.
Our Collective Obsession with True Crime, via the New Yorker’s Critics-at-Large podcast, with guest, one of my favourite non-fiction writers, Patrick Radden Keefe. He mentions he’s working on a new book based on a recent article written for the magazine, ‘A Teen’s Fatal Plunge into the London Underworld’
The Belgrano Diary, a six-part London Review of Books podcast about an event during the Falklands War. Hosted by Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road.
‘We Need To Rewild The Internet’, by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon, via Noema.
Rewilding the internet is more than a metaphor. It’s a framework and plan. It gives us fresh eyes for the wicked problem of extraction and control, and new means and allies to fix it.
The Ambling Mind, latest edition of L.M. Sacasas’ newsletter, The Convivial Society:
This principle of proportionality or fittingness is one that we do well to remember and insist upon to whatever degree we are able because almost everything about the human-built world, in its economic and technological dimensions, is bent on pushing us past a human scale and speed, which then denies us the opportunity to cultivate our competence and enjoy its rewards.