[From April to July 2026]
During the eight Writing Circle sessions, many references were tossed in different directions. These were reactions or recommendations, responding to the specific projects and parts of the projects worked on by the participants. In no specific order, these books, films, music dramas, and shows in public are listed below:
An Alphabet for the Nose, by Sissel Tolaas (exhibition)
There Is Another World, But It Is This One, by Luke Allan (adapted blog post entry)
A Private View, By Douglas Stuart (short fiction)
Another Version: Thinking Through Performing, by Philippine Hoegen (book)
Dog Days, by Emily LaBarge (book)
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, by Mark Dunn (book)
Leaving Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner (book)
Katalin Street, by Magda Szabo (book)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (book)
Hotel World, by Ali Smith (book)
Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor (book)
Vanilla Sky, by Cameron Crowe (film)
Crash, by David Cronenberg (film)
Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud (book)
If Cats Disappeared from the World, by Genki Kawamura (book)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh (book)
The Coin, by Yasmin Zaher (book)
Vehicle, by Jen Calleja (book)
The Long Form, by Kate Briggs (book)
A Woman Under the Influence, by John Cassavetes (film)
The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard (book)
Memory, by Dorothea Lasky (book)
Down Below, by Leonora Carrington (book)
Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal, at Freud Museum London (exhibition)
Angst, by Hélène Cixous (book)
Ghost Driver, by Nell Osborne (book)
Day Book, by Gill Houghton (book)
Writing(s), by Claire-Louise Bennett, Marguerite Duras & Dorothy Spencer (book)
Bluets, by Maggie Nelson (book)
The Outrun, by Nora Fingscheidt (film)
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski (book)
Tank Girl, by Rachel Talalay (film)
Big Kiss Bye Bye, by Claire Louise-Bennett (book)
Russian Arch, by Alexander Sokurov (film)
Naked Lunch, by David Cronenberg (film)
Special Request, Katerina Gogou (poem)
S., by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams (book)
Antkind, by Charlie Kaufman (book)
The Line of the Horizon, by Christos Vakalopoulos (book)
Solaris, by Stanisław Lem (book)
A Ghost Story, by David Lowery (film)
Mars Express, by Jérémie Périn (film)
1000 Airplanes on the Roof, by Philip Glass (music drama)
The Golden Notebook, by Dorothy Lessing (book)
Speedboat, by Renata Adler (book)
I'm a Fan, by Sheena Patel (book)
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf (book)
Me, You and Everyone We Know, by Miranda July (film)
The Stream of Life, by Clarice Lispector (book)
and you are sinking, sinking, sleeper, by Lucy Cordes Engelman (book)
Seed, by Joanna Walsh (book)
Entertaining Ideas: (The Long View), by Kate Briggs (book)
On the Calculation of Volume, by Solvej Balle (book)
Checkout 19, by Claire-Louise Bennett (book)
The Tower, by Thea Lenarduzzi (book)
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, by Jane Alison
Between The Covers, David Naimon (podcast)
The Worms Podcast, with Sheena Patel, Emily LaBarge, Chris Kraus, Jennifer Higgie, Eileen Myles (podcast)
Carrier bag theory, by Ursula le Guin (essay)
Acts of desperation, by Megan Nolan (book)
Dog Days, Emily Labarge (book)
The Worms Podcast, by Summer Moraes (podcast)
Love and Other Thought Experiments, by Sophie Ward (book)
Lili is Crying, by Helene Bassette (book)
The Laugh of the Medusa, by Hélène Cixous, (essay)
The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard (book)
The Site of Memory, by Toni Morrison (book)