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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“How idiotic our griefs seemed, how transient our sins.” — Henri Cole

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“…perhaps it was all right not to understand all things, but simply to see and hold them.”

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Madrid would do well to look at the Barcelona of 10 or 15 years ago, when a disconnect was beginning to emerge between the growth of tourism and public sentiment. What happened in Barcelona is likely to happen in Madrid —or is happening already.” www.ft.com/content/8955... @barneyjopson.bsky.social

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Madrid: the growing pains of a superstar city

The Spanish capital is changing before its residents’ eyes. Restaurants are even imposing a two-hour limit on diners

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ben Lerner, The Shakespeare and Company Interview: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... (and yeah, pausing and going back every fifteen seconds to digest.)

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Ben Lerner on Transcription

Podcast Episode · The Shakespeare and Company Interview · April 15 · 53m

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Hooked, line and sinker on Arirang. Haven’t had a full album on rotation like this in… I don’t know how long.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Opening a Deborah Levy book for the first time is really up there on the list of things I like to do.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“But technological change is not analogous to a natural phenomenon. How technology changes the world is shaped by institutions, laws, consumer demand, regulation, management strategies, and the balance of power in different workplaces.”

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The type of book you can’t help but speed through, knowing all the while you must go slow and slower.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This little book is so good (what else would one expect from Lydia Davis) and mentions several other good books that I have since picked up, which is often the best thing about books, that they can lead you from one to another.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Latin at nine and Ancient Greek at 11 years is what I keep coming back to from Martin Wolf's review of Mary Beard's book (which, yes, going to buy): www.ft.com/content/0afb...

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Talking Classics — Mary Beard makes a passionate case for fun as well as relevance

The acclaimed historian’s eye-opening guide to the ancient world reminds Martin Wolf why classics are as relevant as ever

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Barnes, first page. Please tell me this is on purpose bcse…

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Highly recommend this book by Carlos Manuel Alvarez (translated by Natasha Wimmer.)

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We’re all already taking deep breaths, so take another and have a read to this article. Alec Russell’s editorial professionalism apparently knows no bounds.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The scaffolding barriers are the perfect touch.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

“How to avoid the mistakes of one’s parents, find solitude as well as human connection, survive in a violently polarized country, and deal with the absurdity and pain of life? Shepard could pose these questions in his dramas but could no more answer them than any other artist.”

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

If you’ve read Trust, you’ll want to listen to this interview/convo with Hernan Diaz — and Dua Lipa, whose books podcast does indeed live up to the hype. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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From the Archive – Trust: Hernan Diaz On Power, Silence & Who Gets To Tell The Story

Podcast Episode · Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa · 07/15/2025 · 47m

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Proving to be the perfect back-to-work-after-a-long-holiday (plus I-need-a-few-minutes-away-from-the-news) read.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The Rise and The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire — JMW Turner

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

“The bookshop was open. She went inside, and the wooden shelves were still there, stacked with books. Her body felt quiet. ‘Things we love still exist in Gaza,’ she thought.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut

As bombs fell and famine took hold, Samir Mansour kept delivering books

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"But software doesn’t eat anything. Tech companies do, when they gain the power to use the levers of the information economy to consolidate and dominate." @around.com on "How the Web Was Lost" for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick

The Internet was not meant to suck.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I keep coming back to this week @ftweekend.com column from Janan Ganesh re: the cosmopolitan conservative. www.ft.com/content/9875...

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Weekday mornings I don’t listen to story formats on the radio because, the news! news! news! But this BBC Witness History episode about Haitian singer, dancer, and folklorist Emerante de Pradines is so interesting… couldn’t switch away: bbc.com/audio/play/w...

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BBC Audio | Witness History | Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer

The singer, dancer and folklorist who became the first Haitian to sign a record deal

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Unsubscribing from one newsletter a day for the rest of my life.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This convo, it’s also about the decisions behind when and why we choose to write: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 9m

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“‘Writing is utter solitude,’ Kafka is said to have lamented, ‘the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.’ For students today, it may feel more like a cozy group chat with an algorithm.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

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An Essay Contest Winner Used A.I. Should She Return the $1,000 Award?

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Who appointed you to decide our future? —the Q Roula Khalaf puts to this generation’s tech leaders/scientists who, as a whole, seem to be convinced that they have the truth, that they are building a better future for all of us. Mixed Signals @semafor.com: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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How to be elite in the age of populism, with the FT’s Roula Khalaf

Podcast Episode · Mixed Signals from Semafor Media · 09/05/2025 · 44m

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This FT piece from @faniaoz-salzberger.bsky.social is worth taking the time to read. Gift link: on.ft.com/41xdSYg

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

What US higher education really looks like: - 43% of undergraduates attend community college - 20% of undergrads are parents, 1.4 million of whom are single mothers - 26% of students take classes exclusively online - 25% live w/their parents - 10.8 mil owe +$44,000 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

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The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

>> The Israeli military carried out what’s called a double-tap strike: the first missile hit the hospital’s roof and killed a Reuters journalist during his livestream, followed by a second missile that hit first responders and reporters responding to the initial one. www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

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Israel Kills 5 Palestinian Journalists, Dismissing Global Calls For Press Freedom

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the bombing of Nasser Hospital that killed journalists and medics a "tragic mishap."

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Recent economics PhDs are having new and unusual trouble entering the job market. May not seem relevant for non-academics but it is —for what it says abt the link btwn education and upward mobility, the structures supporting public research, how policy is informed, and for US competitiveness.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

There’s something to be said for keeping up with basic standards. An interesting take on innovation from Janan Ganesh:

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

So, there’s an Odyssey movie in the works.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“The last time the level of government spending was at that 8% of GDP was 1933, before the New Deal. In that year, after years of extraordinary corporate profits, the banking system had collapsed, the unemployment rate was nearly 25%, prices and productivity were plummeting, wages were cratering…”

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