FYI #7
New album from Timo-Veikko Valve (Australian Chamber Orchestra) & Aura Go, via ABC Classic
Rich Dudes Driving in Circles, on the Culture Study podcast, host Anne Helen Petersen and guest Nicole Washington discuss F1 racing. And from the Culture Study newsletter, A Theory of the Modern Exclamation Point!
Those "25 Best Films of the Year" Video Countdowns, edited by film critic David Ehrlich, via Kottke
How to Start (Restart, or Upgrade) Your Meditation Practice: A Master Class | Jon Kabat-Zinn, via Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris
‘Grace Paley, the Saint of Seeing’, a George Saunders’ essay drawn from the introduction to ‘A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry’, via the New Yorker (2017). I picked up a collection of Grace Paley stories after listening to an episode of the Critics at Large podcast recently.
Another interesting sounding Sydney Festival event, a lecture by multidisciplinary artist and composer, DJ Mo Laudi (Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape), Saturday 27 January, free.
Upcoming: Antenna documentary film festival, 9 - 19 February, Sydney
Writer Lauren Groff is spearheading a plan to open a new excellent sounding independent bookstore in Gainesville, Florida — The Lynx.