FYI #39
Nick Cave, in conversation with Leigh Sales, on Australian Story. It inspired me to dig back into Cave’s Red Hand Files project. Wild swimming is his answer to a question about what makes him happy.
Live Like the Weasleys, by Gracy Olmstead, via Granola.
President Obama’s annual summer reading list, via LitHub.
Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer, via LitHub. Connell’s novel, Mrs. Bridge (1959), is on my reading list.
Aggregation theory, by Kyle Chayka, via One Thing… ‘There is a competition going on for authority online — not just authority in a particular subject matter, like politics or finance, but the authority to provide a comprehensive view of what matters on the internet, pointing out what to pay to attention to.’
Call for stronger laws as threatened species list grows, via the Australian Conservation Foundation
Tracey Moffatt, Fourth, via Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Annabel Crabb mentioned this work on a recent episode of Chat 10 Looks 3 (that was mostly about Deadpool & Wolverine).
Podcast listening highlights this week:
Top Billing, an interesting conversation about how movie opening credits are decided, via 99% Invisible
Stephen Merchant on Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
Jeff Tweedy on Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris
Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, and the Unstable Hierarchy of Pop, Critics at Large’s Naomi Fry talks with her fellow New Yorker staff writer Kelefa Sanneh (author of Major Labels: a history of popular music in seven genres)