cool beans & other legumes
Books
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks (would recommend audiobook)
- Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles, Ted Orland
- The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
- Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Metaphors We Live By [good skim] by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- What Artists Do by Leonard Koren
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Axiomatic by Greg Egan
- Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Cixin Liu
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Poetry
- The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
- Overpour by Jane Wong
- The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
- Poem in Noisy Mouthfuls by Chen CHen
Writing
- Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
- Becoming a magician
- Notes Against Note-Taking Systems by Sasha Chapin
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
- There’s no speed limit by Derek Sivers
Creative