FYI #26
Editor / painter, Adam Moss’ new book, The Work of Art: how something comes from nothing, sounds wonderful. I’ve enjoyed a few of his recent podcast conversations, with Debbie Millman on Design Matters and with Ezra Klein.
L.M Sacasas’ newsletter, The Convivial Society, is always a thoughtful read, The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Life
A good life is supported by a diverse array of focal things and practices, which tend to reward us with deeper, more meaningful experiences; a gratifying measure of bodily skill and competence; and possibly even a stronger fabric of relationships. Alternatively, a life characterized merely by the consumption of virtual goods mediated through devices, and the subsequent dependence and isolation such a life necessarily entails, will not be conducive to our well-being.
Watching Britain by the Book (via ABC iView), with Mel Giedroyc & Martin Clunes, made me want to visit Dorset. I loved the connection between authors — Thomas Hardy, Enid Blyton, and others — and landscape.
Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and the Benefits of Beef, via the New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast.
Gary Lineker, in conversation with Ruthie Rogers, on Ruthie’s Table 4
‘Free rent, never bored’, by Daniel Miles, via the ABC… ‘At the top end of a quiet regional town (Terang), an accidental publican is reviving an age-old tradition of refuge and succour for starving artists. All he asks in return is that your gifts are shared with the town that’s slowly reinventing its identity.’
I’m looking forward to hearing Lauren Groff speak at the Sydney Writers’ Festival next week. I enjoy her writing but also love the idea of The Lynx, the bookshop she launched in Gainesville, Florida, in response to the book bans and challenges in that state.