Best of the year – articles, podcasts and more

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50 Reasons to love 2020

A list of discoveries I made while tethered to my screen. It wasn’t all bad…

CULTURE

  • Exceptional profile of I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel by E Alex Jung. It's been a while since I have been so attuned to an interviewee – their personality, their struggle, their very being. I'll be reading this again. PS Here’s a great tip from Michaela on how to make others accountable and expose their BS. “She is eager, almost giddy, to say she doesn’t know something (even if she may have an inkling) because of the way it forces someone else to explain it to her. She has discovered that the explanation is where people begin to falter and the fissures of conventional wisdom crack wider. It may be business as usual, but is it right, is it good?

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Dispensing culture by the page

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Last week I scooted over to cosy bookshop Libreria to celebrate the joy of magazines and one launch in particular. There are lots of pieces on here that gush about the former so let’s focus on the latter. It’s called Drugstore Culture and takes inspiration from Schwab’s Pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard.

No, this isn’t a catalogue of fancy remedies and cures – well, not exactly.

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