Reading

Books

Emma, Jane Austen

The View From The Studio Door, Ted Orland

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

On the Move, Oliver Sacks

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell

The Heirs of General Practice, John McPhee

Not Books

• America Has A Drinking Problem

• Ralph Waldo Emerson would really hate your Twitter feed

• What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind

• A Cosmic Nightwalk with Derek Jarman

• Chekhov on Why the Task of Art Is Not to Solve Problems But to Formulate Questions

• Walking & The Brain

• The Paper Billionaire

• Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters

• Orwell - Why I Write

• The Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible

Books

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

An American Rhetoric, William W. Watt

The View From The Studio Door, Ted Orland

The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

Portrait of a Young Artist, James Joyce

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Dune, Frank Herbert

A Promised Land, Barack Obama

Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee

Mark Twain, Roughing It

Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

Draft No. 4, John McPhee

Not Books

• I’m Not Yet Ready To Abandon The Possibility of America

• ‘Hangxiety’: why alcohol gives you a hangover and anxiety

Books

The River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks

Gratitude, Oliver Sacks

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

A Brief Tour of Consciousness, V.S. Ramachandran

Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke

Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wilderness Essays, John Muir

Not Books

• A Man Has To BE Something

• What Does It Mean To Die?

• The Male Glance: How We Fail to Take Women's Stories Seriously

• In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times

• Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You’re Hardly Alone

• The Case Against Google

• Does Having a Day Job Mean Making Better Art?

• The Spy Who Came Home

• Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality

• Dumber Phone

• How School Shootings Spread

• Tired of Winning

• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Art of Fiction No. 196

• After The Fall

• Ursula K. Le Guin On Being A Man

• Explainer, Elucidator, Enchanter

• Bad TV

• Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory

• "Ways & Means"

• Countering the Achievement Society

• Murakami on What To Do When Life Looks Dark

• 3 Scientific Links Between Taking A Walk And Your Productivity

• Natasha Trethewey: Poetry Speaks 'Across The Lines That Would Divide Us'

• I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It

• Wayne Gretzky and the Mysteries of Athletic Greatness

• The Founder of Panera Bread Explains The Economic Forces That Led To Trump

• Understanding Steinese

• Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find

• Jerry Saltz - How To Be An Artist

• Earning My Smile

• Robert Frost & “Sound of Sense”

• Children of Ted

Books

Stress Test, Timothy F. Geithner

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo

Why Wall Street Matters, William D. Cohen

Do/Design: Why Beauty Is Key To Everything, Alan Moore

Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott

The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner

The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt

The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks

Not Books

• Not Every Kid Bond Matures

• The Tragedy of Liberalism

• Farewell to a Scoundrel

• This is How A Woman is Erased From Her Job