Best of 2024

Recipes

• Sambal Nasi Lemak

• Gucky pasta

• Fresh corn polenta

• Banana tarte tatin

Reading

• My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff ⭐️⭐️ (tight, potent)

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand ⭐️⭐️ (cultural weight)

• The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton ⭐️ (structure)

• Trust by Hernan Diaz ⭐️ (style)

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion ⭐️ (what a moment in time)

  • and watch The Center Will Not Hold

• Alice Munro’s Passive Voice by Rachel Aviv ⭐️

  • also, watch Good One

Podcasts

• The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Power Broker

Movies/documentary

• A Complete Unknown ⭐️⭐⭐

  • and No Direction Home ⭐

• Zone of Interest ⭐️⭐

• American Fiction ⭐️⭐

• Social Studies ⭐️

• Surfwise ⭐️

YouTube

• The Making of a Steinway Piano ⭐️