FYI #87
A lovely story about Sam Mostyn… Can the Governor-General's 'culture of care' help Australia navigate the culture wars? | Compass, via ABC TV.
Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 longlist
Life Inside a Singular Artists' Enclave in Brooklyn | “The Candy Factory” | The New Yorker
Recorded at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street
'Buildings should contribute to your life' – at home with photographer Tif Hunter, via the Modern House
Power Institute supports Blue Art Journal… the first publication in Australia dedicated to critical writing about local and global First Nations art.
#tidelines.. ‘Each day in the Sea Library, a line drifts ashore. I pick it up and read. A sentence from a book, a thought about the sea, a fragment of language that feels like a tide mark left behind.’
Catherine Lacey's "The Möbius Book", via LARB Radio Hour
Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction, via Meet the Writers, Monocle Radio
Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Perfumer’s Garden, food as art with Sandra Knecht and recipe book ‘Mediterranea’, via Konfekt Korner. The stories in this episode inspired to learn more about the Famous Women Dinner Service, by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, and Sandra Knecht’s performance at the Serpentine earlier this year.
A history of the library and archive: With Steven Miller, via the AGNSW
Decomputing For a Better Future, Dan McQuillan, with Paris Marx on Tech Won’t Save Us
Dreaming with Water: On not looking away, by Robert Macfarlane and Terry Tempest Williams, via Orion. Macfarlane’s book, Is a River Alive? is excellent.
Helen Garner and the In-between Space, by Madeleine Watts. Dua Lipa chose Garner’s This House of Grief as a her latest Service95 bookclub pick.
How autocrats and tech billionaires are disintegrating history, by Marcus Colla, via the Interpreter.. review of Giuliano da Empoli’s new novel, The Hour of the Predator (English translation available in October)
On the unglamorous parts of creative practice, sound designer and audio creator, Helena de Groot, via the Creative Independent