FYI #37
Gorgeous Saturday morning in Sydney.
13 things you need to know about the Booker Prize 2024 longlist. The list includes Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional.
Interview with Surf Book Publisher Gonzalo Aixa, via the Sea Library magazine. Gonzalo is the editor of the Fishbone Project
We Need More Than Fewer, Better Things, by Deb Chachra, via Untapped. I just finished reading Chachra’s book, How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world.
A Look Inside Issue 1 of our Magazine with Maddie Sewall, via Never Too Small
Post Less, Think More, by Gracy Olmstead, via Granola… ‘It seems we have forsaken the humility of learning, of silence, and of question-asking for the incessant demand that one must express and defend a stance.’
Re-sourcing the Mind, by L.M. Sacasas, via the Convivial Society…. ‘New technologies challenge us. If we are up to the challenge, they give us the opportunity to reconsider things we have taken for granted. They invite us to rethink and recalibrate our assumptions about what it means to be human, perhaps even to reclaim some goods we had lost sight of along the way.’
‘Are you an artist?’, by Alexandra Schwartz, via the New Yorker. Reviews of Adam Moss’ The Work of Art’ and ‘The Long Run: a creative inquiry’, by Stacey D'Erasmo
‘An Artist Flowering in her Nineties’, a profile of artist Isabella Ducrot, by Rebecca Mead, via the New Yorker.
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast, by political scientist James C. Scott (1936 - 2024), via the Annual Review of Political Science
16 Built-In Bookcases For Every Size + Style Of Room, via The Design Files
Podcast listening highlights this week:
The 2024 Intellectual Property Draft, via The Town with Matthew Belloni
The first episodes of a new season of investigative-journalism podcast, In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran
Writer Elif Shafak on How to Fail with Elizabeth Day
The Kamala Harris Vibe Shift, on the New Yorker’s Critics at large