FYI #40
POV: How creatively nutritious is your internet feed?, by Lucy Bourton, via It’s Nice That. Inspired me to check out the 2024 Tiny Awards nominations. One Minute Park was my favourite.
One of the Tiny Awards creators, Kristoffer Tjalve, writes the Naive Weekly newsletter and hosts the Naive Yearly.. ‘the room for the quiet, odd and poetic web’.
Announcement of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2025 season.
Best Australian books of the 21st century: as chosen by 50 experts, via the Conversation.
Re-Noted: Beatrix Potter's Naturalist Notes, by Jillian Hess, via Noted.
On viewing your work as part of a larger conversation, interview with Octavia Bright on The Creative Independent… ‘Thinking of one’s ideas as existing within a lineage of thought is a way of saying, this is a perspective and it’s been shaped by these other perspectives. Here it is. I’m offering it up to you, see what you make of it.’
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention, by L.M. Sacasas … ‘what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this requisite quality of attention?’
Boutique dreams, A perfect book on how to be a shopkeeper, by Kyle Chayka, via One Thing. Peter Miller’s bookshop in Seattle looks lovely. I’ve added his book to my reading list.
In Conversation: Helen Garner & Izabella Scott, via Granta .. ‘And at a certain point I fell in love with the transcript, to the point where I couldn’t stop quoting it. In the end, this was a darling I had to murder in the final draft. I had to start using my own voice more. As it says in the Bible, we must ‘read, mark, learn and inwardly digest’.
A 300-year-old cottage with sweeping views of the South Downs national park, via House & Garden.
How Ezra Klein helped set the stage for Kamala Harris’s Nomination, by Clare Malone, via the New Yorker.
The rise of the "Brat Pack" — and a new Democratic political style, by Anand Giridharadas, via The.Ink
The Real Cost of a Rose: Behind the scenes of the billion-dollar flower trade, via ABC’s Foreign Correspondent.
Essay by Adam Kirsch on the theory of settler colonialism, via the WSJ. Adapted from his book.
AI and Music Report, by APRA AMCOS
Podcast listening highlights this week:
Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media, South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas on Leading
Guenther Steiner on How to Fail with Elizabeth Day