Books
Books I’m reading now or have finished recently (via Goodreads)
- When in French: Love in a Second Language
- On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
- The Stories of John Cheever
- Gilead (Gilead, #1)
- King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- Novelist as a Vocation
- Solar
- To The Bright Edge of the World
- Jim Hall - Exploring Jazz Guitar
- The Basketball Diaries
Online
Things I’m reading online or saving to read later (via Feedly by way of Pinboard and RSS)
- [toread] The Problem for Trump’s Intellectual Heirs - The Atlantic
- [toread] Trump's Scandals Are Never Done - The Atlantic
- [toread] The New Republic
- [toread] The Supreme Court Is Making America Ungovernable - The Atlantic
- [toread] Why Did We Buy What Victoria’s Secret Was Selling? - The Atlantic
- [toread] Mad Men’s Smoke and Mirrors Have Aged Like a Fine Whiskey | Vanity Fair
- [toread] Highland Park: how guns are destroying public life.
- [toread] Are the Last Rational Republicans in Denial? - The Atlantic
- [toread] Don’t Forget That 43 Senate Republicans Let Trump Get Away With It - The Atlantic
- [toread] Easy Classical Guitar Etude - GUITARHABITS
Listening
I also really, really enjoy listening to podcasts. Here are a few that have caught my attention recently (via Pocket Casts)
- Real Python Episode #51: Navigating Options for Deploying Your Python Application – The Real Python Podcast
- Decoder Ring explores the strange and wacky world of novelty testicle products: Truck Nutz, Bulls Balls, Neuticles, Bike Balls, Gunsticles, and more.
- Postmodernism and Religion | Robert Wright & John D. Caputo [The Wright Show] - YouTube
- Ep. 110 Enspiral: “Better Work Together” – Team Human
- Ep. 114 Geert Lovink on “Sad by Design” – Team Human
- The Biology of Good and Evil: Sam Harris
- Very Bad Wizards Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins
- Your Attention Please, 'PRI: To the Best of Our... - Podcat
- How to Be More Productive - Freakonomics Freakonomics
- Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness | On Being