My intent for this blog is to post at least one interesting thing a day for the year. If you scroll back this far say hello!
This is a walk through my studio with my brother’s music in the background.
These are the books I read in 2020 and 2021 in order, aside from the books of poetry, which were read alongside the books closer to them on the list. If you click on the title it will link to the book.
2020
On Writing - Stephen King
A Brief History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Interviews on Art - Robert Storr
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art - Nancy Princenthal
The Heart of the Buddah’s Teaching - Thich That Hanh
Notes from the Woodshed - Jack Whitten
The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art - Mark Rothko
2021
Writings on Art - Mark Rothko
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Selected Writings and Interviews - Barnett Newman
Writings on Art - Robert Storr
Ninth Street Women - Mary Gabriel
Free Will - Sam Harris
I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir about Depression & Discovering Art - David Sandum
Leave Society - Tao Lin
Essays and Fictions - Brad Phillips
Deacon King Kong - James McBride
The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts
Taipei - Tao Lin
you are a little but happier than i am - Tao Lin (Poetry)
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death - Irvin D. Yalom
Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy -Tao Lin (Poetry)
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories - B.J. Novak (Short Stories)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (Essays and Arguments) - David Foster Wallace
Under the Sea - Mark Lender (Short Stories)
New and Selected Poems (Volume One) - Mary Oliver (Poetry)
A Swim in a Pond in The Rain: In Which Four Russians Give A Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life - George Saunders
Everything Is Totally Fine - Zac Smith (Short Stories)
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