FYI #110
Very pleased to read that Maria Popova (creator of The Marginalian) has a new book coming out next month, Traversal. I really enjoyed Popova’s book, Figuring.
Speaking of books… Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Cookbook Club Naarm is bringing strangers together over food, via ABC News
This year, reclaim (don't quit) tech, via Cyber Celibate
This space between what we can see and what we are told we are seeing is where we dwell, and it also dwells inside us. This is how we travel and exist now, in a physical space made less real by its online shadow. The machine is taking over… (2025: 162) Joanna Pocock Greyhound
It Takes Only Five Paintings to See Helen Frankenthaler’s Genius, Zachary Fine reviews this MoMA show for the New Yorker. I wasn’t familiar with Frankenthaler’s work but the article made me want to learn more.
Susan Orlean's "Joyride: A Memoir", via the LARB Radio Hour
Recently read and enjoyed two books published by Fitzcarraldo Editions .. Jeremy Cooper’s Brian and Joanna Pocock’s Greyhound