Reading List, Head Peace edition.
"When you finally understand yourself, you no longer understand the world." - Mary Ruefle [Image: Caravaggio by Wolfgang Tillmans, (1997) via Idea.ltd]
* Welcome to the age of inconvenience [Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian] If the "age of adulting" is over, that means we're just adults now - I'm here for it. [Claire Cohen, Vogue] Digital retailers are struggling, while bricks-and-mortar books giant Barnes & Noble is thriving again. The trick was to put the love of reading first - this is one of the most delightful and uplifting things I've read in a long time. #BoycottAmazon [Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker] The radical design of Pizza Express [Digby Warde-Aldam, Vittles] "It is very rare to open a book and to feel—to know—that the writer did not want us to read it at all, and, in fact, tried to prevent our reading it, and that, in reading the book, we are resurrecting a self that the writer wished, without hesitation or mercy, to kill." The writer who burned her own books [Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker] California's hippie sanctuaries weren't built to last [David Jacob Kramer, GQ Style] In 1976, Nanda Devi Unsoeld died while climbing the massive Indian peak for which she was named. [Svati Kirsten Narula, Outside Magazine] Iggy Pop isn't about to whitewash his past [David Marchese, The New York Times] "All archives are, to some extent, narratives: edited stories of the self or others. What I kept then was a story of myself that felt precious and still, at that point, untold. I wasn’t saving in the hopes of someone else discovering who I was. I think it was much more a case of ensuring my future self’s attention." On opening your childhood boxes and unearthing your teen self [Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study] News you can use: An extremely useful guide for how to be on time. [Charlotte Cowles, The Cut] And how long, exactly, does wine last after it's opened? (Asking for myself.) [Marissa Ross, Bon Appetit] "Woolf often conceives of life this way: as a gift that you’ve been given, which you must hold onto and treasure but never open. Opening it would dispel the atmosphere, ruin the radiance—and the radiance of life is what makes it worth living." Virginia Woolf's unique idea of inner privacy [Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker] We don’t have to be complicit with destruction, says Robin Wall Kimmerer: "The refusal to be complicit can be a kind of resistance to dominant paradigms, but it’s also an opportunity to be creative and joyful and say, I can’t topple Monsanto, but I can plant an organic garden." [David Marchese, The New York Times]