Books
It has taken decades for me to find all these books and start to make connections between them. I’d like to share the books I found while digging to track my path and hopefully help other people discover new things.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.” (Neil Postman)
Art
The Death of the Artist
William Deresiewicz
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
The Artist’s Way
Julia Cameron
9.5 Theses on Art
and Class
Ben Davis
Air Guitar
Dave Hickey
The Pink Glass Swan
Lucy R. Lippard
Design
Grid Systems
Josef Muller Brockmen
A Primer of Visual Literacy
Donis A Donis
Graphic Design History:
A Critical Guide
Johanna Drucker
Caps Lock
Ruben Pater
The Politics of Design
Ruben Pater
Fiction
Where I’m Calling From
Raymond Carver
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Nonfiction
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
How to Write An Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
Into the Dreamhouse
Carmen Machado
Pulphead
Jeremiah Sullivan
New Darke Age
James Bridle
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Hun
The Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Poetry
The Wild Iris
Louize Glück
Citizen
Claudia Rankine
Women in Concrete Poetry:
1959-1979
Various Artists
Lisa Robertson's
Magenta Soul Whip
Lisa Robertson
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire