FYI #4
Lots of interestingness in Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, including mention of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Green Diary, accessible online via the National Library of Scotland
I came late to the Literary Friction podcast, after reading a memoir written by one of the hosts — Octavia Bright’s This Ragged Grace — I enjoyed their final episode, Year (and decade) in Review 2023. I’ve already picked up one of the recommended books, Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes (1911 - 1997).
‘It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To’, New York Times article about Reading Rhythms, described by the organisers as ‘Not a book club. A reading party’.
This exhibition at Bundanon (on the NSW South Coast).. Miwatj Yolŋu – Sunrise People .. looks wonderful. Open until February 11.
The New Yorker Critics at Large podcast team consider 2023 the Year of the Doll, not just because of Barbie.
Also from the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz explores her possible connection to the Polish writer, Bruno Schulz, ‘Am I One of the Last Living Relatives of a Literary Legend?’