I woke up the other day thinking about all the embedded links in these posts. Even with only a handful of posts in January, there’s so much there to explore and I hate for any of it to get missed. So I thought it might be good to do a roundup at the end of each month, extracting all of the previous links and categorizing them by type. And so, belatedly, here’s the January recap! I’ve included a linked post # at the end of each item, in case you want to see where that item was originally mentioned, in what context or what was said about it.

Hopefully you’ll find things here that you missed or didn’t have time for on first mention. Happy exploring!

ARTICLES & ESSAYS
• With Friends Like These Who Needs Book Agents by Clea Simon, The New York Times (archive) (#24-01)
• On the death of literary website Readerville by Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times (#24-01)
• The Real-Estate Artist by John Colapinto, The New Yorker (#24-02)
• Five Things to Know About Theaster Gates, Tate Modern (#24-02)
• Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernandez’s House, Design and Live (#24-02)
• Do You Have Bookshelf Wealth by Madison Malone Kircher, The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-02)
• The Best Way to Explain the G.O.P. Is Found in the W.W.E. The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-03)
• Welcome to the Shoppy Shop by Emily Sundberg, New York/Grub Street (#24-05)
• How to Discover Your Own Taste, transcript of Ezra Klein–Kyle Chayka interview, from The Ezra Klein Show (podcast here and elsewhere) (#24-05)
• Taste isn’t personal by Kara V, Kara’s Substack (#24-05)
• How to do what you love by Paul Graham (#24-05)
• Scientists Believe They’ve Unlocked Consciousness—and It Connects to the Entire Universe by Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics (#24-06)
• Balancing Act by Willow Defebaugh, Atmos (#24-06)

BOOKS*
• Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty (#24-01, #24-06) (highly recommended)
• Bibliostyle by Nina Freudenberger (#24-02) (recommended)
• The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (#24-04, #24-06) (highly recommended)
• Paul Rand A Designer’s Eye* (#24-04) (passing mention)
• Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac (#24-04, #24-06) (passing mentions)
• Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka (#24-05) (haven’t read)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (#24-06) (haven’t read)
• The White Album by Joan Didion (#24-06) (just finished, haven’t decided)
• Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh (#24-06) (highly recommended)
• You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future by Jonathon Keats (#24-06) (haven’t read)
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (#24-06) (my desert island book!)
• Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin (#24-06) (highly recommended)
• Einstein: A Life* by Denis Brian (#24-06) (highly recommended)

TV & VIDEO
• Home episodes S1E2 (Theaster Gates) and S2E2 (Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernandez), Apple+ TV (#24-02)
• How to revive a neighborhood by Theaster Gates, YouTube/TED Talk (#24-02)

WEBSITES
• Arts & Letters Daily (#24-01)
• Theaster Gates’ website (#24-02)

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*NYT Gift Links expire 30 days from their creation date, so may have reverted to subscriber-only by the time of this roundup

**These are Bookshop.org affiliate links, except for the two books not available there: the Paul Rand, which links to the friend’s shop where I bought it, and the Einstein bio, which is a non-affiliate Amazon link but please ask for it at your local independent if you have one!