Engineer and runner Muna Mitchell joins us to discuss the pleasures of process, thinking in stories, and even book art.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Screenshot, Anatomy of a Murder [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Jean M. Auel
The Earth's Children series
Jane Austen
Nicholson Baker
The Mezzanine
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Leonard Baskin
Carl Boyer
A History of Mathematics
Michael Connelly
Resurrection Walk
Alain Delon
Helen DeWitt
"Scribbling"
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Emily Dickinson
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"
Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
Malcolm Gladwell
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Edward Hirsch
"Fast Break"
Friedrich Hölderlin
Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover)
Nick Hornby
Ted Hughes
Crow
Jedidiah Jenkins
To Shake the Sleeping Self
Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
M. M. Kaye
The Far Pavilions
Marian Keyes
My Favorite Mistake
Mark Kurlansky
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
London Review of Books
J. D. McClatchy, ed.
Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets
Colleen McCullough
The Thorn Birds
Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
Un flic (A Cop)
Vincente Minnelli
Brigadoon
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shaquille O'Neal
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Poetry in America
Radiolab
J. K. Rowling
Edward Said
J. D. Salinger
Adam Shatz
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination
Shel Silverstein
The Giving Tree
Zadie Smith
David Strathairn
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Walt Whitman
"The Wound-Dresser"
Dick Wolf / Rick Eid
Law & Order
