Oslo sandwiches I eat often

• Ma Poule’s NOW: Galopin - Pulled Duck Baguette
• O. Fjelberg - Crawfish/Smoked Salmon Baguette
• Max - The Halloumi Burger
• Crow Bryggeri - Falafel kebab at the 2nd floor snack window
• JØNK - Zero nonsense, messy smashburgers with great brioche buns

Recent writing I love

• Programming as theory-building - How employee churn really rips apart software
• Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener on what it means to be ‘in it’ in 2016 Silicon Valley
• A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump’s America - New Yorker Rebecca Mead on the practicalities and purpose of pursuing American citizenship as a European
• My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore? - Gabrielle Hamilton contemplates Prune’s place in today’s East Village

Worthwhile literature

2024

• All Fours by Miranda July
• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• Stay True by Hua Hsu

2023

• Severance by Ling Ma
• Reunion by Fred Uhlman
• Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
• Sea State by Tabitha Lasley
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

2022

• The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner