FYI #81
What’s Happening to Reading? by Joshua Rothman, via New Yorker
Why We Turn Grief Into Art, via Critics at Large. A thoughtful discussion of Yiyun Li’s memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow, a book I read slowly.
WHERE IT'S AT … with Hans Ulrich Obrist, with Jefferson Hack.
On Muscle and Mind: How Strength Training Changes Your Brain, Improves Your Mental Health, and Lengthens Your Life | Bonnie Tsui, with Dan Harris
A prayer for these cruel times, by Courtney Martin… ‘Let us get weirder and weirder as AI creates ever more predictable patterns.’
Here to please, by Seth Godin… ‘Of course, it’s really difficult to please everyone. Which means that we have to figure out which someone we’re here for.’
After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction?, by Keith Woodhouse, via Public Books
Dave Eggers collection of line drawings, It is Right to Draw Their Fur, for the LA Review of Books
Air-Conditioned Unease, by Andrew O’Hagan, via the London Review of Books.
An Abandoned Apartment Turned Creative Haven for Madrid Couple, via Never Too Small
Michael Ignatieff tribute to pianist Alfred Brendel.. ‘He was an artist who enlarged our sense of what human beings can do. We lived our own emotions through him. With his death, we have lost a guide to ourselves. He gave form to emotions that, having heard him, we can never experience in any other way.’
A dream stone house set in the lavender fields of the Luberon in France, via House & Garden