Books
 
 
Octavia E. Butler: prescient sci-fi
 
 
Sherman Alexie:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Reservation Blues
Film: Smoke Signals
 
 
Our Lady of Darkness - Fritz Leiber, 1977
 
Walking Distance: Remembering Classic Episodes From Classic Television 
 
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
-- Steven Pinker
 
In America: Travels with Steinbeck
- Geert Mak
 
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
Heather Cox Richardson

Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy and Our Lives
Joseph Heath
 
 Crucifying America: the unholy alliance between the Christian Right and Wall Street
-- CJ Werleman
 
 
 -- Sophia A. McClennen
 
Justice in WarTime - Bertrand Russell 
 
The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
 
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
- Matt Taibbi
 
Nickel and Dimed 
Bright-Sided
   Barbara Ehrenreich 
 
 
Ellen Ullman
"Close to the Machine"
"The Bug"
 
After Henry - Joan Didion (1992)
 
The Haunting of Hill House
Ira Levin 
 
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine - David Brock
 
Billionaires' Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality  - Linda McQuaig, Neil Brooks
 
Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio (Rory O’Connor) 
 
On Bullshit
Assholes: A Theory
The Real and the Unreal - Ursula LeGuinn 
Over the Cliff - John Amati
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
The Republican War on Science - Chris Mooney
Right Is Wrong - Arianna Huffington
Aftermath - Nir Rosen
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Proofiness - Charles Seiff
Conversation With Myself - Nelson Mandela
 
Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald
 
Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo, by Joe Adamson
Touchstone, 1974 
 
The Great Movies, by Roger Ebert
Three Rivers Press, 2003 
 
Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, by Donald Bogle
Viking Press/Continuum 1973 
 
In the Blink of an Eye, Second Edition, by Walter Murch
Silman-James Pr, 2001 
 
Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies, by James Agee
Modern Library, 2000