FYI #101
Christopher Kulendran Thomas with Katie Dyer, artist talk at Artspace, next Saturday morning, Sydney
Ira Glass Reveals The Secret To Better Podcasts | SubwayTakes Uncut
Orion magazine, Autumn 2025, The Natural Rhythms of Hip-Hop, guest edited by Hanif Abdurraqib
A Magazine Born of Anger, Heartbreak, and Hope, an interview with Equator magazine co-founder Mohsin Hamid, via Columbia Journalism Review … ‘And so the idea is to put into the world this glow, somewhere in the deep gloom, which hopefully attracts other fish, which will say, “Hey, that’s a cool glow.” And not in an angry, predatory way, where we eat all the small fish who come to us. The notion is that we are not building on anger. We are building, hopefully, on longing. And that is a much more potent and powerful force.’
On making the internet fun again, with Tyler Bainbridge, founder of Perfectly Imperfect, via the Creative Independent
How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity, by Maria Popova, via the Marginalian
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's speech and an essay by Anand Giridharadas Zohran's smile
Why Big Tech’s Abuse of Artificial Intelligence Doesn’t Need to Be Inevitable, from Maximilian Kasy’s new book, The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits), via LitHub
H is For Hawk official trailer, an adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s memoir, with Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe.
The data on ‘housing mismatch’ in this ABC News article is interesting.. In regional Australia, country communities are forced to become developers amid a scarcity of downsize housing
Programming expressions of interest for the Sydney Writers’ Festival
Reading recommendation, On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan
Mavis Staples sings Anthem, written by Leonard Cohen
Favourite listens:
Marina Hyde and Richard Osman, from The Rest is Entertainment, on Ruthie’s Table 4
WHERE IT'S AT... with Cathy Horyn (fashion writer), with Jefferson Hack. Profile of Horyn, via the gentlewoman
Full of Pith and Vinegar (with Kate Lebo), Home Cooking with Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway. Super interesting conversation about fruit, especially the medlar, with Kate Lebo who wrote The Book of Difficult Fruit. I learnt about process of bletting (thank you Gardening Australia)