Library

A collection of books I’ve found enjoyable, instructive, useful, challenging, and inspired.

• Interaction of Color

  Josef Albers

• James Baldwin: Collected Essays

  James Baldwin

• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

  David W. Blight

• Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice

  Ivan Brunetti

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

  Robert A. Caro

• 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

  Jennet Conant

• The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College

  Eva Diaz

• Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

  Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee

• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

  Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

  Eric Foner

• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

  Jon Gertner

• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

  James Gleick

• George Grosz: An Autobiography

  George Grosz

• Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement

  Aaron Gustafson

• Just Enough Research

  Erika Hall

• Content Strategy for the Web

  Kristina Halvorson and Melissa Rach

• Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy

  Dave Hickey

• Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

  Kat Holmes

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

  Scott McCloud

• Annals of the Former World

  John McPhee

• What We See When We Read

  Peter Mendelsund

• Nixonland

  Rick Perlstein

• Mason and Dixon

  Thomas Pynchon

• Class Notes

  Adolph Reed, Jr.

• The Reactionary Mind

  Corey Robin

• Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide

  Jennifer Robbins

• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

  Alex Ross

• Madness, Rack, and Honey

  Mary Ruefle

• The Dream Life of Astronauts

  Patrick Ryan

• Two-Dimensional Man

  Paul Sahre

• Civilwarland in Bad Decline

  George Saunders

• Lincoln in the Bardo

  George Saunders

• The Shape of Content

  Ben Shahn

• River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

  Rebecca Solnit

• Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

  Steven Stoll

• The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

  Astra Taylor

• Krazy: The Black and White World of George Herriman

  Michael Tisserand

• A Confederacy of Dunces

  John Kennedy Toole

• Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

  Ellen Ullman

• Cat's Cradle

  Kurt Vonnegut

• Slaughterhouse-Five

  Kurt Vonnegut

• Sing, Unburied, Sing

  Jesmyn Ward

• Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table

  Ellen Wayland-Smith

• Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

  Lawrence Weschler

Some of these titles are available in my online book shop.