FYI #70
Tips for analysing Hype, by Johannes Klingebiel
Charlie Porter’s Debut Novel Reclaims What Queer Life Lost to the AIDS Crisis, via Vogue… ‘I want my book to be an invitation to readers to think differently and to look at their own lives.’ I’m a fan of Porter’s non fiction writing including What Artists Wear
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure, by Mariam Mahmoud, via Kasurian… offers a framework that includes Cultivate Curiosity, Develop a Question, Gather Evidence, Develop an Answer, and Community of Knowledge
Reading During a Genocide: What Etel Adnan's novel taught me, by Isabella Hammad, via The Yale Review
Story on not for profit urban farm, Farm Raiser, on Gardening Australia (ABC TV)
“It felt like a place meant to be shared”: How Mariam Ella Arcilla and Mason Kimber Live Small, via Never Too Small
A fresh landscape at Art Gallery of NSW with new Director, Maud Page.
Throat clearing, by Seth Godin…. ‘If you need to get settled, consider doing it before you go on stage.’
Humanifesto - Edition 11, written by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
The Intelligence of Painting, exhibition at the MCA (Sydney), open until 20 July.
The opposite of fascism, by Anand Giridharadas… ‘Be what scares them. Live lives in colors their eyes can’t even see. Cook food they want to deport. Test the fire code with your parties. Form a scene that meets every Wednesday. Call someone you haven’t in a while. Fight with a smile. Fail and come back. Be weird. Be welcoming. Kiss converts. Refuse despair. Be disobedient. Laugh loudly. Hide someone. Call out. Root down.’
Keynote - Dr Deb Chachra, recordings of sessions at the FACT 2025 Symposium
Putting our best foot forward: A checklist for walkable density, via Committee for Sydney
The hungry ghosts of fading men, by Courtney Martin
The Curious 100 is ‘a celebration of one hundred courageous leaders and creative minds across the United States’, via the Eames Institute
Fashion Neurosis with Julianne Moore, with Bella Freud
Peter Kyle: AI, grief, and the power of Elon Musk, on Leading
Luca Guadagnino on Ruthie's Table 4. Ruthie Rogers also has a new Substack
Replenishing the Garden of Eden with Azzam Alwash, on Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
New podcast, Good Hang With Amy Poehler