2021 Podcast and Book Suggestions

A collection of favorites from CA Faculty and Staff

Circe by Madeline Miller
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit

– Christa Champion


The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Nick Hiebert, English


Continental Divide by Alex Myers 

– Sue Johnson, Athletics


Fiction

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
The “Moomin” books by Tove Jansson

Nonfiction

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimerer
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

– Heidi Koelz, Marketing and Communications


The Door by Magda Szabo

– Jessica Kuh, Mathematics


Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
There There by Tommy Orange
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Circe by Madeline Miller

– Stephanie Manzella P’14 ’17 ’19, History


Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
– John McGarry P ’22 ’23, Admissions


The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama’s Improbable Campaign by Chris Liddell-Westefield (read it as an audio book; it really needs to be listened to because the actual people, including President Obama, speak)

– Kem Morehead, Mathematics


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

– Kate Peltz, College Counseling


Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Popol Vuh translated from the Ki’iche’ by Michael Bazzett
A Testament to Freedom by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
Ledger & Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield

– Sabrina Sadique, English


Artemis by Andy Weir
Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
White Teeth and/or On Beauty by Zadie Smith

– Ayres Stiles-Hall P’23 ’24, English


The Book of Dust (vol 1: La Belle Sauvage and vol 2: The Secret Commonwealth) by Philip Pullman
Empire of Democracy by Simon Reid-Henry
Every Tool is a Hammer by Adam Savage

– Will Tucker, Science


The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Weather by Jenny Offill

– Carmen Welton, Spanish


Cynthia Katz

Resource Guide for Photography

Here is a link for the image that is thought to be the FIRST photograph made. It was taken out of the photographer’s window. A view out a window in your house to make a photograph from every day.

Here is an image a photographer took that photographed the same scene, at the same time, looking out his window for TWO full years – the 6:30am Series

Below are great places to look at FABULOUS Photographs. Enjoy looking!

Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Photography collection

Magnum Photos, Oldest and best photography collective, since 1952.

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston MA one of the oldest Photography Galleries, 19th, 20th and contemporary photographers

Other Photography Galleries worth a look

http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/artists
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/artists
https://www.houkgallery.com/artists

Go deeper once you find someone you like… find their own website, follow your curiosity

And for memory sake: https://www.photofusion.org/online-darkroom-induction/

Poetry Unbound

– Sabrina Sadique, English, and Nick Hiebert, English


Radio Ambulante and their new offshoot El Hilo (both in Spanish)

– Carmen Welton, Spanish


Throughline

– Heidi Koelz, Marketing and Communications; Will Tucker, Science; and Carmen Welton, Spanish


Dolly Parton’s America

– Will Tucker, Science; and Carmen Welton, Spanish


Hidden Brain
Radio Lab

– Ayres Stiles-Hall P’23 ’24, English


Pod Save America
Lovett Or Leave It
Pod Save the World
The Rachel Maddow Show (just the audio)
The Daily (NYTimes)
Post Reports (Washington Post)
The Daily 202’s Big Idea (Washington Post)
What A Day
Coronavirus Morning Report
FiveThirtyEIght Politics
Today Explained (Vox)
Slow Burn (Slate) has had a couple great series, especially one on Watergate
The Ezra Klein Show (Vox)

– Kem Morehead


Telescope
Code Switch
Rough Translation
The United States of Anxiety
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Invisibilia
In the Dark

– Heidi Koelz, Marketing and Communications


Car Talk

– Will Tucker, Science


In Our Time
Tides of History

– George Larivee, Mathematics


NPR News Now
Scene on Radio
New Yorker Radio Hour
Reveal
This American Life
Science Vs.
TED Talks Daily
The Moth
America Dissected
IndieWire Screen Talk
Revisionist History

-Ben Stumpf, Computer Science

Full Length Documentaries

  • Pushout: confronts the ways in which the misunderstanding of Black girlhood has led to excessive punitive discipline which in turn disrupts one of the most important factors in their lives, their education. See the film’s website.
  • Spaceship Earth: Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2.
  • The Cordillera of Dreams by Patricio Guzmàn. Winner of the L’oeil d’or Best Documentary Award at the Cannes Film Festival. This is the third in Guzmàn’s landscape and memory trilogy, after Nostalgia for the Light (2010) and The Pearl Button (2015). Guzmán centers on the imposing landscape of the Andes, which run the length of the South American country’s eastern border.
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble: directed by Dawn Porter. Chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration.
  • Kiss the Ground: Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.
  • Picture a Scientist: chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists.
  • The Painter and the Thief: a Norwegian film about Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova who develops an unlikely friendship with the man who stole two of her paintings.
  • Last Dance: ESPN’s new 10-part documentary about NBA legend Michael Jordan!
  • Summer of Soul: Questlove’s film about the Harlem Revival won the 2021 Grand Jury prize and Audience Award at Sundance.

Mini Documentaries

Ben’s Huge List of Documentaries

-Ben Stumpf, Computer Science

  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
  • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  • Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
  • Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (adult version)
  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
  • We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry ’90
  • Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
  • Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (young adult)
  • Counting Descent by Clint Smith
  • Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
  • White Like Me: Reflections on Race form a Privileged Son by Tim Wise