FYI #140

• Australia's 'woody meadows' raise biodiversity in cities, via ABC News

• Valeria Luiselli’s excellent new novel, Beginning Middle End, has a sonic version

• ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson, on NPR’s Fresh Air

• Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin Literary Award

• Lena Waithe | Good Hang with Amy Poehler

• Orna Guralnik on Listening for the Unconscious, via The Critic and Her Publics, with Merve Emre

• Elizabeth Barnett Artist - Welcome to My Studio

• On focusing on what interests you, interview with Carmen Maria Machado, via the Creative Independent

• The Interview: Cory Doctorow thinks tech executives' story about AI is not an inevitability, via ABC News

• Albanese Government raises privacy concerns over ‘smart glasses’, Attorney-General media release

• 5 Design Ideas From a Home Built Around an Artist's Life, via Never Too Small

• An interesting conversation on this week’s Whar’s Your Poison?, with guests from The Westminster Tradition podcast

• Library Books: Libraries are where readers and writers are made, Sydney Writers Festival event with Susan Orlean and Pip Williams

• Can AI save democracy? In Conversation with Beth Simone Noveck, UTS event