Library

A collection of books I’ve found enjoyable, instructive, useful, challenging, and inspired.

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• Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
• James Baldwin: Collected Essays by James Baldwin
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
• 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
• The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College by Eva Diaz
• Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
• George Grosz: An Autobiography by George Grosz
• Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement by Aaron Gustafson
• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
• Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson and Melissa Rach
• Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey
• Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
• What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
• Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
• Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• Class Notes by Adolph Reed, Jr.
• The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin
• Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide by Jennifer Robbins
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
• Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
• The Dream Life of Astronauts by Patrick Ryan
• Two-Dimensional Man by Paul Sahre
• Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn
• River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit
• Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll
• The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor
• The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor
• Krazy: The Black and White World of George Herriman by Michael Tisserand
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith
• Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler