This project is just for fun. The Works Cited Page. The Bibliography of Today’s Potatoes.

Read July’s Letter From the Editor for an explanation of why I’m doing this. This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of every single important or inspirational resource, or all of my favorite things. That would be much too overwhelming of an undertaking. Instead, with this page I am creating a small but growing index of at least just the important or inspirational resources that have made it to this website or to the newsletters, (excluding all the podcasts and links to blog articles, that would be way too much!)

These resources have, somewhere along the way, helped me to understand and express whatever it was I was hoping to communicate by working on Today’s Potatoes.

I am trying to practice more slow, deliberate, and intentional bug-collection. I hope to learn more about the ways in which each of these resources may relate to one another, or at least to the context in which they were produced.  

So, rather than being organized alphabetically or by the order they have appeared on the site, I will be adding resources in chronological order, by the date they were published (as close as I can).

Just to see what happens! Maybe I’ll make some new connections, or have some new ideas, or be able to relate to the materials in a new light that is slightly more true, trying to consider them more for what they are and how they came to be, rather than only how they became important to me.

Who knows! It’s just for fun.

This is my styrofoam board of impaled insects, rearranged.

March 1920 - “The Egotist Becomes a Personage” Chapter 5, Book 2, This Side of Paradise. F. Scott Fitzgerald.

March 1922 - “Symposium” Chapter 2, Book 2, The Beautiful and The Damned. F. Scott. Fitzgerald.

September 1988 - The Satanic Verses. Book by Salman Rushdie.

April 2004 - Hope In The Dark. Book by Rebecca Solnit.

May 2005 - This is Water. Commencement speech delivered at Kenyon College by David Foster Wallace.

October 2007 - What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir. Book by Haruki Murakami

November 2009 - Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays. Book by Zadie Smith

July 2010 - RSA Animate: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce. Animated edit of a lecture given by Slavoj Zizek. Source lecture published by the RSA in March 2010. Book of the same name published 2009.

November 2012 - Africa For Norway. '“Radi-Aid” Parody music video. SAIH Norway.

June 2013 - “Religion For Atheists” Recorded lecture given at the Sydney Opera House by Alain de Botton, promoting his book of the same name published in 2011.

December 2013 - The Courage To Be Disliked. Book by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi.

January 2019 - "Chidhi Sees The Time Knife” Season 3, Episode 12, The Good Place.

January 2019 - Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. Book by Gabor Maté.

April 2019 - How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Book by Jenny Odell.

September 2019 - The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education. Book by The School of Life.

October 2022 - Liberation Day. Book by George Saunders.

January 2023 - Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. Book by Anna Lembke.

August 2024 - “To Be in Awe” LIFE ADVICE from a 96 YEAR OLD. Youtube video. Published by Reflections of Life.