FYI #85
The Grody-Patinkin Family Is a Mess. People Love It, via The Interview podcast
Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ Can Teach You How to Grow Up, by Brandon Taylor, via Time
The Art of Dailiness, by Michael Bierut, via It’s Nice That
Local Economy, this space that Alexis Madrigal and Sarah Rich are opening in North Oakland sounds great… In this era of isolation and chaos, we’ve been craving a way to strengthen local networks and connect people who live and spend time here. In a few months, we’ll be opening the doors here at Local Economy—a place where a lot of different things will happen, and all of them will serve this community.
No Cheese Please, by Anthony Grafton, via the London Review of Books, a review essay on two books about libraries.
On touchstones, and Ana Mendieta, by Sinead Gleeson
Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui, via LitHub
Billy Joel: And So It Goes | Official Trailer | HBO Max .. one of the favourites from my teenage years.
A designer's idyllic urban cottage where nature and intuition inform every detail, via House & Garden
The Canyon and the Meaning of Life, by Maria Popova, via the Marginalian … ‘Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror. Anything to which you give yourself fully, vest all your strength and risk all your vulnerability, will return you to your life annealed, magnified, both unselved and more deeply yourself.’.. also A Defense of Joy, featuring a poem by Mario Benedetti.
Australia’s reckoning with Indigenous people takes one cultural glide forward, two political steps back, by Julianne Schultz, via the Guardian