FYI #34

from the garden section of writer Olivia Laing’s website. I enjoyed reading her book this week.

• Olivia Laing on the Care and Keeping of Gardens In an Era of Climate Emergency, excerpted from Laing’s new book, The Garden Against Time: in search of a common paradise, via Lit Hub

• I’m only interested in the mid-life, by Amy Key, author of Arrangements in Blue

• Key mentions Mary Ruefle’s essay, Pause, via Granta

• Thirst made visible, by TW Lim, via Scope of Work

• Visions: A forum on the contemporary art, science and politics of seeing, 15 - 17 August, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)

• Ira Glass Hears it All, by Sarah Larson, via the New Yorker

• Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two, 193 books. Especially looking forward to Deborah Levy’s The Position of Spoons

• Homesick for Another Internet, by Samantha Floreani, via Kill Your Darlings

• Podcast listening highlights this week:

  • Former Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, on Leading with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart

  • US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith, in conversation with Kara Swisher

  • Is Kamala Harris Underrated?, via the Ezra Klein Show

  • Ben Quilty Is Going To Die, with Marieke Hardy on her podcast Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die

  • Christine Smallwood on Going Back to the Text, with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

  • Skydance’s David Ellison on His Plans for Paramount, on The Town with Matthew Belloni