AndrewJamison

Some weeks back I wrote a post about Resurgence, a magazine that continues to provide a voice of hope and sanity in a world that seems to have fallen ever deeper into despair and insanity. I subscribe to the weekly email newsletter and today there were articles about generosity and appreciating the gifts that nature gives, which was highly appropriate since I am out in the country partaking of my passion for picking trattkantareller, or winter mushrooms, a wonderful gift to be sure. Also included in the newsletter was a suggestion for a Christmas gift, which I pass on for those of you who can’t make it to the shop to buy your presents there: a gift of Resurgence. Just click on the link below to find out more.

https://7tdcszbab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001mtjxOJQXlNf_X3-1_0nKYBdmI2yEN6JSfUIMtRgwQmhnRSRojIA03MW7eL6RzNMrQPxqFY1mz_1nTiy7DncDPmpB3vLa5lueD1fZFObnZ28oJOapFYYHlTBaeauov6xT4707sBFvg8ZNChk9mLqWDkm3QDhDdXM1si1-6X5tuvjWMvcqki3-m79GrAfsB8zGmLmtkf9g3cJ-Gp96WzZBhE1JDR_JKHeL&c=F1oN5gOgtJ5_t5nBCR3X163xqqZA5St3RRv8NqYgihaj5MPOCi4rfQ==&ch=hj8-KkWRjtKL_h-u2-IM8dWktW_QUbtH6Sx8zNDax5rnCq5j7y7dOg==

It seems that they are not just fun to pick and delicious to eat, but that they are valuable in many other ways. Click and learn:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/29/fungi-scientists-innovations&ved=2ahUKEwi96b-S55eRAxVQIxAIHbNWCFc4ChAWegQINRAB&usg=AOvVaw1-9NoycTLz71YK3188irAD

Next Saturday, December 6 is our neighborhood’s annual ushering in of the Christmas season with many of the nearby shops and galleries doing something a little extra in keeping with the yuletide spirit. As our contribution to the festivities Andy’s Corner will be hosting a concert with Malin Carlberg and Dick Heijkenskjöld starting at 4.30 (16.30) so do come by. Here are Malin and Dick in action.

With all the AI-generated nonsense to be found on antisocial media these days that people spend so much of their time reading – and believing – it seems ever more important for people to spend their time reading real human-generated things like books and magazines such as are to be found at Andy’s Corner. Apropos this little piece in today’s Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/19/buckingham-palace-christmas-market-why-tourists-flocked-there-and-found-just-locked-gates-and-big-puddles

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As a small contribution to encouraging the demise of nonsense we will offer a free copy of the New Yorker or the New York Review of Books to all customers who buy at least one real book at Andy’s Corner. We’ve got piles of old copies on our front table so do come by and take your pick.

When November rolls around, the funnel chantarelles (trattkantareller in Swedish) pop up all over the woods around our country house, providing some consolation for the darkness and dampness and dreariness of late autumn. They wait until almost all the leaves have fallen from the trees and the forest is covered by a carpet of multi-colored foliage before they come out in full force, which makes them quite difficult to find, and the discovery and picking of them such a satisfying experience. A simple pleasure to be sure. It’s like a game they play with you, and the more you play it the more you can appreciate the mysterious ways in which the non-human world functions: no matter how hard we try we can never understand it completely. And boy are they tasty! I made a soup last night with them that, as the expression goes, was out of this world, but was really very much a part of it – the world, that is.

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Lots of new posters in the shop this week and don’t forget Boris Zetterlund on Saturday for those of you who can understand Swedish. Today we’ll be playing a record we just got with Glenn Gould for much of the afternoon so do come by. Here’s a sample:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEftKHj_sHNY&ved=2ahUKEwjyyfCo4O6QAxXTOhAIHZPYFLA4ChCjtAF6BAgMEAY&usg=AOvVaw39hocgE6CHV7yN10XEXLMP

It is always a delight to visit the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, and it was especially so this week when the current exhibition explores the myriad connections between Miro and the United States, where he made a number of murals and public sculptures and his paintings can be seen at museums throughout the country. Miro had a life-long friendship with Alexander Calder, among other American artists, and he was a major source of inspiration for the American abstract expressionists of the postwar era. The exhibition is a marvelous display of abstract art, a remembrance of more hopeful times.

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We’ll be back in Malmö on Tuesday and open for business on Thursday, among other things, with some Miro calendars for 2026.

Boris Zetterlund came by the shop recently with some copies of his latest book, Statisten, and we agreed that it would lighten up the November darkness if he could present it at Andy’s Corner and, at the same time, initiate a new start for our “Saturday afternoon live” events that we have had at the shop for many years. For those of you who read Swedish, do check out Boris’s website (borisuz.com) to find out more about him and his books; and if you are still into facebook, visit his facebook page, from which we have copied the notice of his upcoming event.

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We’ll be off to Barcelona next week to visit the growing family so the store will be closed. We’re open as usual this week and then open again on Nov 6.

October magic

Mushrooms in the fallen leaves

Winter approaches

And, speaking of fallen leaves, here’s one for our playlist today:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DxXBNlApwh0c&ved=2ahUKEwiq27nA66qQAxVlPxAIHZhhFXwQtwJ6BAgYEA8&usg=AOvVaw2_HofYcbLjuXo5IRUAdh84

Every once in awhile something appears in my inbox that is worth sharing and since I no longer use antisocial media l do my sharing here. As some of you might know, I spent a good deal of my academic career writing about the environmental movements of the 1970s and the ways in which they contributed to what I have termed the “making of green knowledge” and the broader ecological transformations that have taken place in the world – in spite of all the anti-environmental nonsense that seems to have taken over the political and cultural “mainstreams”.

Anyway, my academic career is long over, but I have tried to keep exploring green knowledge through the books at the shop and by subscribing to various email newsletters and other would-be sources of information. So when the newsletter of the Resurgence Trust appeared in my inbox, as it does on a regular basis, I thought I could share it. The Resurgence Trust is one of the survivors of the environmental movements of the 1970s that continues to publish books and a magazine, having joined forces with The Ecologist some years ago, and hosts a wide range of events online as well as at the Resurgence Centre in England. For those who continue to believe, as I do, that an ecological reformation of our societies is not only desirable but necessary, the activities of the Resurgence Trust are well worth following and supporting. Do take a look:

https://share.google/rOkxzpYCXgyKbHrqn

Thanks to Robin Gott and Kevin Benn and Anand Kulkarni and all of you who attended for making our tenth anniversary party a truly memorable event, bringing our first decade to a conclusion in a most convivial way. And thanks to Giulia Cantone for her terrific lute concert on Thursday and the Bellevue String Quartet for their concert on Wednesday, the latest of their many memorable performances at Andy’s Corner. Now let’s see if we can make it through ten more years of good books, good times, good vibes, and good memories at Andy’s Corner!

(photo by Lawrence Teeland)