FYI #9

• This adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir sounds excellent, ‘Saoirse Ronan Beautifully Anchors Recovery Drama The Outrun’, via Vanity Fair

• I’m looking forward to Kyle Chayka’s new book, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. I picked up one of the books he recommended on Ezra Klein’s podcast.. In Praise of Shadows, an essay by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965)

• I’ve always been interested in the history and politics of maps, ‘Casting light on relief map shading’, via the Swiss National Museum blog (h/t The Browser Newsletter)

• ‘A Single Small Map Is Enough For A Lifetime’, English adventurer and author, Alastair Humphreys on the joys of small adventures, via Noema

• Crooked Media co-founder Jon Favreau interviews R.F. Kuang, author of ‘Yellowface’ on his Offline podcast. Kuang is appearing at the Sydney Opera House’s All About Women event in March.

• ‘Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone’, an Anna Wiener essay about office life memoirs, including the recently released Private Equity, by Carrie Sun, via the New Yorker. Sun’s book is on my TBR list.

• Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad speaks at Creative Mornings/NYC, via Swiss Miss.

• I was not familiar with filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s work but enjoyed this insight into her process, via Mason Currey’s Subtle Maneuvers newsletter

• Mark Hurst speaks with artist Ben Grosser on his Techtonic podcast. Grosser describes his work as focusing on ‘the cultural, social, and political effects of software.’ His redaction poetry version of Marc Andreessen’s The Techno-Optimist Manifesto caught my eye.

• Ruthie Rogers speaks with Will Ferrell on her Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast

• ‘The eclectic, colourful London house of a novelist and lifelong collector’ (Andrew O’Hagan), via House & Garden. O’Hagan new book, Caledonian Road, (out later this year) is on the list of books I’m looking forward to.