HL's Readings

Current 

• A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs (podcast), Andrew Hickey

• From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, by Arthur C. Brooks 

Most Recent

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin

• Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling, Edgar H. Schein (Kindle)

Read: 

• Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris

• The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride, David J. Dennis Jr. & David J. Dennis Sr.

• Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison, Carol Ruth Silver

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

• Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, Faith S. Holsaert (Editor)

• This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, Leslie Kelen

• Mississippi Eyes: The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary Project, Matt Herron

• Troublemaker" Memories of the Freedom Movement, Bruce Hartford (paper-back)

• SNCC: The New Abolitionists, Howard Zinn (Kindle)

• The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing, Adam Frankel

• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, John Lewis

• Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, Hasan Kwame Jeffries (hard-cover)

• Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, Eli Saslow

• After The Mass-Age, Chris Riley

• The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications, Otto Scharmer 

• The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux, Cathy Davidson

• Mississippi's Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped My Life, Brenda Travis

• Reader, Come Home: The Fate of the Reading Brain in a Digital World, Maryanne Wolf

• Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do, Jeremy Bailenson

• Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Word, David Whyte

• Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age, David M. Levy

• Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives, David M. Levy

• The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads, Daniel T. Willingham (Kindle)

• Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future, Jeff Howe (Kindle)

• Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, Thomas Friedman (Kindle)

• Being Literate in the 21st Century, Maryanne Wolfe (Kindle)

• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kevin Kelly (Kindle)

• The Elements of Teaching, James M. Banner Jr. (Kindle)

• Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education, Glenn Whitman and Ian Kellleher (Kindle)

• Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana, Marc Frank (Kindle)

• The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity, George Couros (Kindle)

• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (hardcover)

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Maryanne Wolf (paperback)

• Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley & David Kelley (hardcover)

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain (hardcover)

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson (hardcover)

Quotes: 

• Let us be dissatisfied until.... ~Martin Luther King, Jr

• Acquiring is always secondary, and instrumental to the act of inquiring. ~John Dewey

• Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America. ~John Lewis

Listened: 

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin

• Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris

• Broken Horses: A Memoir, Brandi Carlile

• Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement, Simeon Booker

• Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen 

• Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting, Mary Gauthier

• Miracle and Wonder, Conversations with Paul Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam

• Broken Record: liner notes for the digital age (podcast)

• Cape Up, Jonathan Capeheart (podcast)

• Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era, Jerry Mitchell

• Heavy, Kiese Laymon

• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell

• Dolly Parton's America, Jad Abumrad, WNYC Radio (podcast)

• The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You, Mike Walsh

• The Sixth Man: A Memoir, Andre Iguodala

• Revisionist History, Season 4, Malcolm Gladwell

• The Radical King, Martin, Luther King, Jr 

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari 

• Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover

• Becoming, Michelle Obama

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris

• The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Jon Meacham

• Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigations of a Lifetime, Ron Stallworth

• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (read by Tim Robbins)

• The Coming Storm, Michael Lewis

• What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America, Michael Eric Dyson

• Calypso, David Sedaris

• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Daniel Pink

• A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,  James Comey

• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert M. Sapolsky

• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant

• A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Maya Angelou

• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell

• What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, Bernie Sanders

• Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt

• Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell (podcast series)

• I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons, Kevin Hart

• This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class, Elizabeth Warren

• Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, Al Franken

• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Firoozeh Dumas

• It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

• Creative Schools, Sir Ken Robinson

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Maryanne Wolf

• Tears We Can Not Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah

• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,  J.D. Vance

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth