(Suggested Readings)

The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

The Art of Is, Stephen Nachmanovitch

Improvising Blues Piano and Jazz I, Tim Richards

The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck (the collection, not just the title poem)

Hard boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Marukami

The City and It’s Uncertain Walls, Haruki Marukami

Anam Cara, Jon O’Donohue

Time is a Mother, Ocean Voung

Robert Frost, any collected works

Mary Oliver, any collected works

The 12th of December (again the whole collection not just the one short story) George Saunders

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurty (warning this is a long ass book. I only got about half way. I will get back to it one day.)

All Fours, Miranda July