Previously in this series.
Cher
On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed
Self-Help, Lorrie Moore
“The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
The Drag King Book, J. Jack Halberstam
Selfie, Kim Kardashian
Emma, Jane Austen
Dionne
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
Les Guérillères, Monique Wittig
The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Coco Before Chanel, dir. Anne Fontaine
Tai
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Just Kids, Patti Smith
NW, Zadie Smith
She Had Some Horses, Joy Harjo
Bringing up Baby, dir. Howard Hawks
Christian
Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
How to Be Gay, David M. Halperin
Lady Sings the Blues, Billie Holiday
I am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist, Kirk Douglas
L’Amour Fou, dir. Pierre Thoretton
Elton
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama
This is How You Lose Her, Junot Díaz
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon
Blue, Joni Mitchell
Travis
A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Artificial Paradises, Charles Baudelaire
Dogtown and Z-Boys, dir. Stacy Peralta
Murray
Capital, Karl Marx
Josh
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein
Collected Essays, James Baldwin
The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, ed. Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb
Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Slavoj Žižek
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Jacquelyn and Ronjaunee teach English at UCLA. Ronjaunee usually writes about feminine singularity and Jacquelyn usually writes about alphabet books. Their mutual passions are television, cheese, Lacan, and Madame Sosostris.