FYI #67
Who Stands with the Arts?, by Jess Scully, via Kill Your Darlings
Why 'cricket equals life' for technicolour commentator Bharat Sundaresan, via Australian Story
My Flashback on The New Yorker's Birthday, by former editor, Tina Brown
Nick Cave on the french horn, via The Red Hand Files.. ‘The French horn embodies so many complex emotions – sorrow, of course, and yearning – but it also conveys more elevated sentiments – courage, steadfastness, fidelity, dignity and nobility.’
“Who Made These Rules?”: Claire Messud on What’s Distracting from Good Writing, via Public Books… ‘So I suppose one of the things I feel I am an advocate for is keeping faith in pleasures that aren’t simple, in difficult pleasures, in things that sometimes take more effort than the simplest path.’
On why a project is not an ending, conversation with architect Sumayya Vally, via the Creative Independent
Should you do psychedelics?, by Dan Harris
Which type of note-taking is better for learning: laptop or pen and paper?, via The Conversation
Rifling Through the Archives With Legendary Historian Robert Caro, via the Smithsonian Magazine.. “Somehow that ending tells you what’s important in everything that’s come before it, even if it’s 1,000 pages that came before it.” He goes on, “Once you have it, everything becomes easy for me.”
David Godshall on Grief, Garden-Making and Generosity, by Georgina Reid, via Wonderground .. ‘The urgency to find kinder, better models and ways of building gardens that are in service of the whole seems more pressing than ever.’
A Twist of the Kaleidoscope: Three cases for literary criticism, by Kasia Bartoszynska, via The Point
The Wisdom of Pulling Back from the News, by Krista Tippett, via the Pause.
Reading Room, by Rachel Schwartzmann, via Slow Stories
What artists really do, by Mason Currey, via Subtle Maneuvers