I'm going to be continuing to blog on communication-related and user interface design topics for Learning Tree International. Because I worry about "conflict of interest" kinds of things, I'll be shuttering this blog on communication topics until Learning Tree realizes that I'm not worth spending money on.
Reading or read:
- The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
- The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
- The Song of Prince Igor by Robert Mann
- The Three-Inch Golden Lotus by Feng Jica
- Hip Hop Family Tree 1975-1983 by Ed Piskor
- Passion Over Reason: Joyce Wieland and Tom Thompson by Sarah Stanners
- Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience by Wanda Koop and Mary Carpenter Reid
- Park Bench by Christophe Chabouté
- Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella
- Oxford Modern English Grammar by Bas Aarts
- American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny by Christopher Miller
- 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
- Habibi by Craig Thompson
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
- The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
- Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Thunderbolts: Justice Like Lightning by Kurt Busiek
- Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
- Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
- And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard
- Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness
- A Happy Boy, Arne, Poems and Songs by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Walaschek's Dream by Giovanni Orelli
- The Twelve by J. Michael Straczynski
- Captain America: The Truth by Robert Morales
- Weird Tales from Northern Seas: Norwegian Legends/The Family at Gilje by Jonas Lie
- I am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
- Cages by Dave McKean
- The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus
- Mogul Podcast by Reggie Ossé
- Granta 141: Canada, Granta 142: Animalia, Granta 143: After the Fact, Granta 144: Generic Love Story, Fiddlehead 275
- Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain
- A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
- Cop Hater by Ed McBain
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- The Years, Months, Days by Yan Lianke
- Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera
- The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai
- Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
- Grendel Omnibus Volume 3: Orion's Reign by Matt Wagner
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- The Oil Jar and Other Stories by Luigi Pirandello
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- StartUp: Podcast by Alex Blumberg
- Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
- William Beckman by Carl Belz
- Doctor Death vs. The Secret Twelve, Volume 2 by Harold Ward
- Captain America: Essentials, Vol. 3 by Stan Lee, Gary Friedrich, Steve Englehart
- Hostage by Guy Delisle
- Gwenn Thomas by David Levi Strauss
- After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda
- Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
- Émilie Charmy by Matthew Affron
- The Solitary Twin by Harry Mathews
- Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson
- The Tamil Story: Through The Times, Through The Tides by Dilip Kumar
- Uber Volume 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 by Kieron Gillen
- Smile by Raina Telgemeier
- Between Two Rains by Aleksandrs Caks
- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Other Fantastic Stories by David Lear (ed.)
- The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
- For Sure by France Daigle
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
- Oroonoko, The Fair Jilt & 3 Short Stories by Aphra Behn
- Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors
- The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
- Laura by Vera Caspary
- The Black Company by Glen Cook
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
- From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 by Jorie Graham
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Island of Books by Dominique Fortier
- Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
- Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- The Tartar Relation by George O. Painter
- Canaan by José Pereira da Graça Aranha
- Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison
- Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon
- Young Once by Patrick Modiano
- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
- Shanghai Redemption by Qiu Xiaolong
- The Plains by Gerald Murnane
- Among Others by Jo Walton
- Thor Vol. 1: The Goddess of Thunder, Vol. 2 by Jason Aaron
- The Defence of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton
- Tidings by Don Gutteridge
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Gothic Painting by Jacques Dupont
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- Stories from Ancient Canaan by Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- The Son by Philipp Meyer
- The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan
- The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
- The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
- One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
- The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Ill Will by Dan Chaon
- Grandville Bete Noir by Bryan Talbot
- Vision by Tom King
- The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
- The Cloisters Apocalypse by Florens Deuchler
- Aniara by Harry Martinson
- The Boat People by Sharon Bala
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
- Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga
- Just Fine by France Daigle
- Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
- Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune Vol. 2: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips by Roy Crane
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
- Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson, Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Invisibilia by Alix Spiegel, Hanna Rosin, Lulu Miller
- Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
- Alone by Christophe Chabouté
- The Return of the Zombies! by Various
- Fools Crow by James Welch
- How to Traverse Terra Incognita by Dean Francis Alfar
- Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
- Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec
- The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
- Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
- Pelagie: The Return to Acadie by Antonine Maillet
- The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
- The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Betty Goodwin, Icons by Cindy Richmond
- One Year In America by Elisabeth Belliveau
- Hello from the Magic Tavern by Arnie Niekamp
- Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumihe
- A. J. Casson: My Favourite Watercolours 1919 to 1957 by A.J Casson
- American Psycho by by Bret Easton Ellis
- June Wayne: A Retrospective by Arlene Raven
- HerLand by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Daumier by Roger Passeron
- Winter in the Blood by James Welch
- P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy
- The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake
- Tricks by Ed McBain
- 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
- The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Night Time Podcast by Jordan Bonaparte
- The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History by Jon Morris
- Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs by Marcel Pagnol
- Kissing Nests by Werner Lutz
- We, Their Sons by Jeff Isacksen; The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard ; The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
- Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
- Paso Por Aqui/Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Dorothy M. Johnson
- Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
- The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy by Joe McGinniss
- Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
- Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems by Earle Birney
- Written in Wood: Three Wordless Graphic Narratives by George Walker
- Indian Country by Dorothy M. Johnson
- Telesforas Valius by Romas Viesulas
- The Summit of the Gods, Vol. 4 by Baku Yumemakura and Jiro Taniguchi
- Skin Divers by Anne Michaels
- Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
- The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams
- Mister X: The Archives by Dean Motter
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Texas Cowboy, or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony by Charles A. Siringo
- Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson
- The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler
- The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
- God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
- Marc Chagall: Works from the collections of the Museé national d'art moderne by Marc Chagall
- Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Program by Urban Meyer
- Astro City Vol. 14: Reflections, Astro City Vol. 15: Ordinary Heroes by Kurt Busiek
- The New Annotated Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Leslie S. Klinger
- Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Challengers of the Unknown by Jack Kirby