FYI #43
In this world heavy with robust reasons for despair, joy is a stubborn courage we must not surrender, a fulcrum of personal power we must not yield to cynicism, blame, or any other costume of helplessness — Maria Popova, ‘The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem’, via the Marginalian
Will & Harper , a lovely road-trip documentary, with friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, directed by Josh Greenbaum, via Netflix
Tuck in! McSweeney’s latest issue is a lunchbox, via It’s Nice That
Robert Caro Reflects on ‘The Power Broker’ and Its Legacy at 50 , via the New York Times. This installation and exhibition at New York Historical Society looks great.
Introducing The Design Files Magazine!, via The Design Files. Good news for those of us who like printed things.
Nonchalance achieved chalantly is nothing new, but the way it is being encouraged on social media today reflects increasing structural limitations to life online. — Kyle Chayka, via the New Yorker.
Podcast listening highlights this week:
Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD, hosted by Chenjerai Kumanyika
What It's Really Like to Run a Romance Bookstore, via Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study podcast, speaking with the co-owners the Ripped Bodice bookshop. ‘Romance Bookstores Are Booming, Dishing ‘All the Hot Stuff You Can Imagine’, via the New York Times
Kate Winslet - ‘I remember thinking: I do not want to be famous’, on How to Fail with Elizabeth Day
How David Remnick remade the New Yorker, on Channels with Peter Kafka