[WINTER READING]









...and some mysteries

[PROSELYTIZATION]

See Dynasty Handbag's BABY at Galapagos!

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I'm home grading final projects all weekend. My students designed oral history projects on the following subjects:
Bottle Collectors and the history/demise of New York's WE CAN
The history of art handlers ("the janitors of the art world")
Memory as explored through pairs of siblings
Life Histories of gay, lesbian, transgender elders [to become web-based video archive]
The family history of a Korean family in an entirely white, middle-class suburb
An oral history project on sexual assault, conducted as a chain letter (interviewee becomes interviewer and so on...)
How new language in post-AIDS world shaped sexual identity/coming out process of people around age 25

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Mary Ellen Mark's doc, Streetwise: doc (made with husband Martin Bell) and book

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Tom French's serials from one of the last nonprofit newspapers in the country.
The Hard Road
The Pulitzer Prize-winning (1998) Angels and Demons
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Katherine Hubbardphotographs her waste.

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Last Meals, as a list. Performance group Lucky Pierre, from Chicago, worked on recreating each meal and filmed footage of strangers eating them. About the Last Meal fetish. FYI: Gary Gilmore requested a 6-pack of beer.

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Adrian Nicole Leblanc's THE GROUND WE LIVE ON and her literary triumph. If you plan to spend lots of time with your s.o. on, let's say, a vaction, don't bring this book with you. I sat in a hammock and didn't speak until it was time to make tacos.

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Architectural Decay
Faded Splendor
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