FYI #89

• Finding essence-format fit, by Yancey Strickler

• Next manuscript by Amitav Ghosh to be kept sealed for 89 years, via the Guardian… a new addition to the Future Library

• The women redefining literary festivals, via Monocle Radio

• Deborah Levy & Adam Thirlwell: The Position of Spoons, via London Review Bookshop

• New courses from Dark Times Academy to focus on climate action, practical activism, and creating vision, via Dark Academy (NZ)

• Rita Wrote a Letter: Paul Kelly’s sequel to How to Make Gravy is an affectionate goodbye to Joe, via the Guardian

• Generous Media, by Jason Kottke, ‘.. I can tell you that praising the work of others is great for one’s soul.’

• Tour this compact Kent Coast jewel of a cabin with Studiomama, via Wallpaper

• Les Américains à Paris, via The New Yorker’s Critics at Large

• The Revolution Will Be Incremental with Rebecca Solnit, via How to Survive the End of the World

• A writer's hidden Notting Hill cottage with a wonderfully pretty interior, via House & Garden

• Ezra Klein in conversation with Philippe Sands