In this Blog

A brief list of the books, essays, authors, and artists covered in this blog since its inception.

Books

• The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker
• The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson
• Beowulf to Beatles
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
• Live from Golgotha, Gore Vidal
• The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
• The Tragic Sense of Life, Robert J. Richards
• The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins
• The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
• Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
• The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco
• The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (and here)
• Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake
• Island, Aldous Huxley (and here)
• Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume
• The Case for Books, Robert Darnton
• Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight, James Attlee
• Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolfe
• The Prague Cemetery, and here, here, and here Umberto Eco
• How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
• The Open Work, Umberto Eco
• Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Blue Highways, William Least-Heat Moon

Essays & Short stories

• On Life, Percy Byssche Shelley
• The Distance from the Moon, Italo Calvino
• The Whore of Mensa, Woody Allen
• Structured Procrastination, John Perry
• Philosophical Sex: Pornography in Old Regime France, Robert Darnton

Poetry & Poets

• Allen Ginsberg 
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Jorge Luis Borges
• William Blake
• Lord Byron

Film & Television

• Melancholia
• A Night with the Stars
• QI, and here
• Meaning of Life, Monty Python
• My Dinner with Andre
• Dan in Real Life
• The Simpsons

Music

• Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Wagner, Tristan and Isolde
• Ravel, Bolero
• Sondre Lerche, Let My Love Open the Door
• Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Resatrant

Artists

• Will Ashford
• Guy Laramée
• Sam3
• Giovanni Paolo Pannini
• Vincent Van Gogh
• William Blake, and here

AUTHORS

• Neil Gaiman
• David Foster Wallace
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Italo Calvino
• Thomas Pynchon
• Lord Byron
• Woody Allen
• William Blake
• Aldous Huxley
• David Hume
• Robert Darnton
• James Attlee
• Carl Sagan
• Maryanne Wolfe
• Umberto Eco
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• William Least Heat-Moon

Scientists

• Charles Darwin, and here
• Ernst Haeckel
• Richard Feynman
• Stephen Hawking
• Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Richard Dawkins, and here
• Carl Sagan