Issue 9 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Thoughts on Zoom Fatigue, Spite Houses, and the Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.
Read more "An Intense Situation That’s Either Going to Lead to Mating or Conflict…"“Myths may be the home of the miraculous, but they are also mirrors of us.”
Pandora’s Jar, Natalie Haynes
Issue 8 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. How women have been portrayed in mythology, how to talk about privilege, and a geode that looks like Cookie Monster.
Read more "A Searchable Database of Thoughts"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
Lynda Barry
Notes on some of the books I read in January 2021.
Read more "2021: January’s Bookshelf"
Issue 7 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Jazz musicians’ brains, yearbooks from 1949, and the dangers of a single story.
Read more "Feeling Good…"Images which idealise are no less aggressive than work which makes a virtue of plainness. There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
Susan Sontag, On Photography
Issue 6 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Some fortifying words from Neil Gaiman, serendipitous finds from the Science Museum, and finding poetry in unexpected places.
Read more "The Earth Has Been Spinning Faster Lately…"I am writing this account, in another man’s book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish.
Edward Carey, The Swallowed Man
Issue 5 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. The origins of the painting Martin Scorsese’s mother shows off in Goodfellas, Rush Hour Crushes, and dreamy poetry *snip snip*.
Read more "One Dog Goes One Way, and the Other Dog Goes the Other Way…"