FYI #86

• triple j’s Hottest 100 Australian Songs

• Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin Award. Lu won for his novel, Ghost Cities

• Sydney Writers’ Festival launches year-round program in landmark partnership

• HOLD ON LET GO: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time, by Maria Popova, via the Marginalian

• Life with a herding dog, by Anna Iltnere, via the Sea Library

• All the Latest Book & Publishing Trends, Explained, via the Culture Study podcast

• Fitzcarraldo at 10: Kate Briggs, Brian Dillon & Helen Charman, via the London Review Bookshop podcast. Fitzcarraldo is one of my favourite independent publishers.

• In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025, by Rebecca Solnit

• Fashion Neurosis with Nick Knight, with Bella Freud

• 'Live Without Counting', by Gracy Olmstead… The ancient Greeks had two concepts of time: kairos is a qualitative and permanent form of time, one related to the right moment for a certain action or thing. Chronos refers to quantitative or sequential time, what we often think of as past, present, and future: the ticking of the clock.

• Inside Artist Ben Mazey's Home-Turned-Studio, via the Design Files

• Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast, the video version, with Benedict Cumberbatch