FYI #96
Thomas J Price, Ancient Feelings, 2025, the inaugural Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, via the MCA
2025 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, via Creative Australia
The MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design, via the Australian Design Centre. Finalist exhibition launches 10 October (Sydney)
Air Mail’s Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction and Reportage
Squeeze Me: Lemon Recipes & Art, new book by Ruthie Rogers and Ed Ruscha (h/t Air Mail)
How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps), by Maris Kreizman, via Lit Hub
Rick Rubin in conversation with poet David Whyte, via Tetragrammaton
‘A Mother’s Specter’, Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s excellent memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me, via LA Review of Books
Interview with Tash Aw, author of The South, via The Guardian. Pleased to know that this novel is the first in a quartet
The dawn of the post-literate society, via James Marriott’s Cultural Capital newsletter. Recommended by Marina Hyde on The Rest is Entertainment
Translations in an Emergency: Lydia Davis reflects on her inspirations and her craft, a review of Davis’ Into the Weeds, by Sasha Frere-Jones, via Book Forum
From Jenny Odell’s latest newsletter..
Many well-funded and well-designed forces may be arrayed against this ability to move attention, and using it may require constant practice and maintenance against those forces, but it remains available for even the most despair- and anxiety-addled mind. Getting it back just takes time.
Moreover, if the opposite of context collapse is “context collection,” then we’re faced with the task of collecting, piecing back together a continuity that is now shattered by default.
Between Two Mountains — a new pop-up newsletter, by Craig Mod.
Multidisciplinary designer Bethan Laura Wood on the need to create and make, via The Modern House
Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens, via The Guardian. This story stuck with me this week.
Letter from September, I always enjoy Anna Iltnere’s monthly missives
Mrs Robinson, documentary screening as part of the Irish Film Festival (October, Sydney)