My Five Fives for 2024
Just a list of 5 favorite things across the arts that I experienced in 2024
These selections are provided for your delectation in alphabetical order by type. Some potential number ones where noted.
5 Favorite Books Read this Year
Of all the mediums, I don’t tend to read books primarily because they’re recent releases. 🤷♂️ Doppelganger, however, was completely my jam and covered off on many of my own obsessions: doppelgängers, conspiracy theories, Q-Anon, misinformation, nationalism, internet culture, the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, the toxicity of capitalism, the power of belief, politics, human rights, and so on. If I were ranking these Klein’s book would be number one.
- Closely Observed Trains — Bohumil Hrabal
- Doppelganger — Naomi Klein
- Every Man for Himself and God Against All — Werner Herzog
- Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan (Would love to see the film adaptation of this, too, with Cillian Murphy.)
- A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami