FYI #55
‘Between the shadow and the soul’, short story by Lauren Groff, via the New Yorker
Why the novel matters, based on Deborah Levy’s New Statesman Goldsmiths Prize Lecture… ‘If I write to find out something I don’t know, I have come to believe that the unconscious of the novel does know. It has gone beyond the facts and is adjusting the headlights for the long drive ahead.’
I Love This Little Thing About Me, by Jeff Tweedy.
Home Visit: A Micro-Terrace With a Music Studio, Library and 200-Year-Old Gadi Tree, via Broadsheet. Magenta House in Redfern (Sydney) sounds wonderful.
A Mammoth Book Catalogs a Vibrant Spectrum of Color Charts Spanning 600 Years, via Colossal. Speaking of colours, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse is Pantone’s colour of the year.
Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025, via Lit Hub
The inaugural The Kaldor Centre Oration, given by Kate Eastman AM SC and Zaki Haidari
Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut) Starring Dick Van Dyke and family Directed by Spike Jonze & Mary Wigmore
I’m enjoying reading.. A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts, by Nigel Slater. Taught me a new word - scrumping - steal (fruit) from an orchard or garden - and introduced me to a painting I hadn’t seen before, Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1875)