Ive been talking about reading quite a lot lately, and have been asked about my bibliography. Here are about 20% of the books/texts from which I have greatly benefitted: Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming by Anthony Stevens Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric by Daniel Tiffany Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element In Culture by Johan Huizinga Finite And Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse On Beauty And Being Just by Elaine Scarry The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty by Dave Hickey Art [Objects]: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson Travels In Hyperreality by Umberto Eco Raids On The Unspeakable by Thomas Merton Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges The Shape Of Time: Remarks On The History Of Things by George Kubler The Future As History: The historic currents of our time and the direction in which they are taking America by Robert L. Heilbroner (1960) Pandoras Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies by Bruno Latour Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas J. Preston Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry Killing the White Mans Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century by Fergus M. Bordewich A Japanese in Kansas: A Man Captivated by Glass by Misugi Ohno Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion? Ronald R. Bernier, Ed. Re-Thinking History by Keith Jenkins Encounters with Merton by Henri J.M. Nouwen Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi Responsibility and Judgement by Hannah Arendt In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art by Linda Weintraub The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic The Shape of Content by Ben Shan Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science by Morroe Berger Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut Dont Ask by Philip Levine Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn Culture Gulch: Notes on Art and Its Public in the 1960s by John Canaday Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Eds. Jennings, Eiland and Smith The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem Thin Ice: Saved by the American Dream by Bruce McCall Moondust: In Search of the men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith Area 51: An Uncensored History of Americas Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil and Legend by Leigh Montville Saul Steinberg: A Biography Deirdre Bair Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination by Anne Allison Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology, And Education by Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future by Neil Postman Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming by Anthony Stevens Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric by Daniel Tiffany Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element In Culture by Johan Huizinga Finite And Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse On Beauty And Being Just by Elaine Scarry The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty by Dave Hickey Art [Objects]: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson Travels In Hyperreality by Umberto Eco Raids On The Unspeakable by Thomas Merton Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges The Shape Of Time: Remarks On The History Of Things by George Kubler The Future As History: The historic currents of our time and the direction in which they are taking America by Robert L. Heilbroner (1960) Pandoras Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies by Bruno Latour Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas J. Preston Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry Killing the White Mans Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century by Fergus M. Bordewich A Japanese in Kansas: A Man Captivated by Glass by Misugi Ohno Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion? Ronald R. Bernier, Ed. Re-Thinking History by Keith Jenkins Encounters with Merton by Henri J.M. Nouwen Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi Responsibility and Judgement by Hannah Arendt In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art by Linda Weintraub The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic The Shape of Content by Ben Shan Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science by Morroe Berger Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut Dont Ask by Philip Levine Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn Culture Gulch: Notes on Art and Its Public in the 1960s by John Canaday Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Eds. Jennings, Eiland and Smith The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem Thin Ice: Saved by the American Dream by Bruce McCall Moondust: In Search of the men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith Area 51: An Uncensored History of Americas Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil and Legend by Leigh Montville Saul Steinberg: A Biography by Deirdre Bair Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination by Anne Allison Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology, And Education by Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future by Neil Postman
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