A monthly selection of moments, ideas, encounters, and discoveries worth keeping.
The monthly collection
Five things worth keeping1
Reading
David Sedaris
Sedaris chronicles everyday life and human relationships like no one else, making me feel an entire range of emotions within a single essay. His honest, witty observations turn the mundane into something absurd. Every new publication keeps me coming back for more.
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Browsing
Magazines
The latest issue of FAIRE: Crafting a Creative Life — a soothing balm for the senses, filled with beautiful images and stories about creative lives. And Frieze, whose September issue took me somewhere completely different: contemporary art, interviews, essays, and pages of intriguing work by artists. A little like stepping onto another plane and floating through unfamiliar worlds for a while.
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Listening
David Sedaris
After devouring The Land and Its People in less than a week, I developed withdrawal symptoms. The obvious cure? More Sedaris. So I started listening to him read Happy-Go-Lucky aloud. Now I fall asleep with a smile. Every night. Every time.
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Watching
NETFLIX
Mariana Enriquez has been one of my favorite Argentine women writers for more than two decades, so seeing her universe make its way to the screen was a must. My Sad Dead brings together characters and passages from several of her stories into one unsettling world. Her particular kind of contemporary horror is rooted in reality: social inequality, violence, decay, and the darker corners of Argentine society. The supernatural is frightening, but what lingers is everything painfully sad and real underneath it.
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Experiencing
Malmö, Sweden
Several experiences from September that I think will linger for a long time. The month started with a group of friends attending a concert devoted partly to Astor Piazzolla and partly to his contemporary Eduardo Rovira, whose forgotten scores are being recovered one by one through painstaking transcription by the Belgian ensemble SONICO. A performance between traditional tango and the avant-garde. Then came a cyanotype workshop, followed by my first appearance onstage performing improv theater, Lund Gallery Night, and, on the very last weekend of the month, Malmö Gallery Weekend.