Summertime! Let’s kick back, relax, and get nothing done! Right?
Nope. On top of the whole marriage thing, I’m working my way through a large list of books to read this summer.
Let me know if you have any interest in reading anything that’s coming up on the list below. I’d love to discuss some of these books with people.
Academic/Non-Fiction
• We Now Disrupt This Broadcast by Amanda D. Lotz
• Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel by Clayton Childress
• Reading the Romance by Janice Radway
• Nollywood Central by Jade Miller
• Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People by Arlene Davila
• Culture by Raymond Williams
• The Procrastination Economy by Ethan Tussey
• The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild by Miranda Banks
• Inside Primetime by Todd Gitlin
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner
• Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
• Status Update by Alice Marwick
• Crossing Fandoms by Paul Booth (Read)
• Digital Fandoms by Paul Booth
• Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans by Vicki Mayer (Read)
• Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy by Stephen Duncombe (Read)
• Textual Poachers by Henry Jenkins (Read)
• Reverse Engineering Social Media by Robert Gehl (Read)
• Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community by Jessa Lingel (Read)
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Ujoma Noble (Read)
• The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 by Michel Foucault (Read)
• The History of Sexuality: Volume 2 by Michel Foucault
• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
• Make Room For TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America by Lynn Spigel (Read)
• Re-Inventing the Media by Graeme Turner (Read)
• Twitter and Tear Gas: Power and Fragility in Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci (Read)
• Brands: Meaning and Value in Media Culture by Adam Arvidsson (Read)
Fiction
• My Struggle #1 by Karl Ove Knausgard
• American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
• Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto (Read)
• The Interesting by Meg Wolitzer (Read)
• The First Bad Man by Miranda July
• Monk of Mohka by Dave Eggers
• Star Wars: Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: Last Shot by Daniel José Older (Read)
• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (Read)
• The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (Read)
Poetry
• My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros (Read)
• Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi (Read)
Short Stories
• The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Ryan Stoldt 