All The Things (November)
The gist: I put together links / recs every week, but you may have missed a few or forgot to go back or whatever.
So here they are for the month of November, all nicely organized (kinda).
Kinda late with this one, but let’s go…
Newsletters You May Have Missed
Article Links
“Emma Thompson is Right: “Content” is Rude” at NY Times
I can take it.
“Who Killed The Fudge King?” at The Atavist
Honestly, I haven’t read this one yet, but it’s on my list and looks good
“Why The Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore” by Kyle Chayka at The New Yorker
“100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” at The Hollywood Reporter
Fun content!
Killer piece from Lev Raphaelabout the responses in lit mag rejections. On Substack.
The case for inviting everyone to everything. At Vox.
Why take notes? 9 reasons. By me at Medium.
How to discover new music. At Psyche.
David Gutowskifrom Largehearted Boy has started the list of year-end lists. Here’s the one for 2023 books. At Largehearted Boy.
Difference between habits, routines, and rituals. At Ness Labs.
Five. Hundred. Million. Dollars. by Biz Stone. At Medium.
I like behind-the-scenes business stories like this and Biz is an entertaining writer. He’s one of the founders of Twitter and this is when they went to visit Mark Zuckerberg in the early years.
Other Things (Books, Movies, Music)
(Re-)Started Drifts by Kate Zambreno. Writers in New York! She has a nice pace to her writing. I bought it back in the summer when we were on our New York exploratory moving trip.
Checked out The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and The Misfit’s Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch but I haven’t started either yet. (UPDATE: I still haven’t)
The Killer on Netflix. A new David Fincher movie!
Started watching “The Curse” on Showtime/Paramount Plus. If you like Nathan Fielder, you’ll probably like it. If you don’t know who that is, he’s this absurdist comedian.
Another shout-out for Stay True. This book is primarily about the Asian-American experience in Berkeley and San Francisco in the late 90s and the nuances to that. And then it’s about loss and grief and coping with tragedy, which is most of the second half of the book where I’m just entering into. It won a Pulitzer in 2022, and I can see why.
“What Was Literary Fiction? “ At The Nation.
“The Dead Internet to Come” at The New Atlantis.
“In Defense of Meaningless Goals” by Sean Kernan at Medium.
Other Things by Me:
“A Huge Volume of Notes is a Trap” on Medium
“One-Time Advantage All Writers Have” on Medium.
“The Minimalist Approach to Note-Taking” on Medium.
PS: Here’s a quick note-taking cheat sheet (free) and my Notion Writer Starter Pack (paid) if you’re interested.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." — G.K. Chesterton
Keep going,
-Josh Spilker