Recommended Reading (and Viewing) for our Clueless Friends -The Toast

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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.

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