Some people call it soccer

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Novel: They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
Podcast: Men In Blazers
Documentary (movie): Ball is Ball, Be It Ever So Humble (2009)
Documentary (television): The Other Sport (2014)
Memoir: Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Nonfiction: How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
Wikipedia: Timeline of association football

The Tao

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Text: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Book: The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Text: 365 Tao: Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-Dao
Radio: "Daoism" by Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio)
Articles: any three from http://www.taodirectory.co.uk/articles.html
Film: any two from http://plasticpumpkin.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/taoist-movies-part-1/
Website: http://dudeism.com/
Website: http://en.daoinfo.org
Wikipedia: Laozi

Sylvia Plath

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Novel: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Short story collection: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
Poetry collection: Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Poetry collection: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Analysis: The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath by Jo Gill
Criticism: Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers by Janet Badia
Recording: Sylvia Plath Reading Her Poetry
Biography: Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin
Article: "Lady Lazarus: New Biographies of Sylvia Plath" by Adam Kirsch
Film: Sylvia (2003)
Wikipedia: Sylvia Plath

James Thurber

Memoir: My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
Collection: The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Collection: My World and Welcome to It by James Thurber
Review: "James Thurber's Humorous Heart" by Jonathan Yardley
Interview: "James Thurber" by George Plimpton & Max Steele
Criticism: "The Hephaestus Complex: Power Themes in the Life of James Thurber" by Frances Bigda-Peyton and Gary Alan Fine
Criticism: "The Modern Fable: James Thurber's Social Criticisms" by Ruth A. Maharg
Wikipedia: James Thurber

Lost in Lost

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Literature: Any four works from http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Appearances_of_literary_works
Website: http://lostpedia.wikia.com
Webpage: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
Film: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Television: Lost (2004-2010)
Article: "J.J. Abrams on the Magic of Mystery" by J.J. Abrams
Talk: "The Mystery Box" by J.J. Abrams
Wikipedia: Dharma (Buddhism)

Dust Bowl

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Novel: The Grapes of Wrath by  John Steinbeck
Nonfiction: The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster by Martin W. Sandler
Documentary film: The Dust Bowl (2013)
Documentary book: An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion by Paul Taylor and Dorothea Lange
Nonfiction: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
Album: Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie
Short film: The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Photography: The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein
Nonfiction: Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley
Wikipedia: Dust Bowl

Young men, race, America, whatever

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Novel: I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Novel: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Novel: Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
Film: Whiteboyz (1999)
Film: Finding Forrester (2000)
Film: Stand and Deliver (1988)
Speech: "High School Training Ground" by Malcolm London
Poem: "Poem for the Young White Man who asked me how I, an intelligent well-read person could believe in the War Between Races" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Wikipedia: Critical race theory

Emily Dickinson in the Popular Imagination

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 Essay: My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
Picture book: Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World by Jeanette Winter
Picture book: Emily by Michael Bedard and Barbara Cooney
Novel: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
Poem: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes by Billy Collins
Film: LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson (2003)
YouTube: http://youtu.be/rj_LYsvGF0E
YouTube: http://youtu.be/XRKIo7vfYjQ
History: White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
Poetry: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Emily_Dickinson
Wikipedia: Emily Dickinson

Blerds

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Novel: The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Novel: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Convocation Address: Speech Delivered at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York City, May 14, 1991 by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Essay: "Black Nerds" by Trudier Harris
Podcast: "W. KAMAU BELL" on Nerdist
Television episode: "Donald Glover" from Comedy Central Presents
Article: "The rise of the black nerd in pop culture" by Mekeisha Madden Toby
Article: "The Rise of the Black Nerd: Separated From Racial Mainstreams, the Outsiders Make Their Mark" by James Hannaham
Website: http://www.blacknerdsnetwork.com/
YouTube Channel: Black Nerd Comedy
Wikipedia: List of African-American inventors and scientists

Nerd studies

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Nonfiction: American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent
Novel: Howards End by E. M. Forster
Novella: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
Novel: Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Comedy sketches: "The Nerds" from Saturday Night Live
Nonfiction: Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope by David Anderegg
Film: Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Television episode: "The Diary" from Freaks and Geeks
Music video: "White & Nerdy" by "Weird Al" Yankovich
Television episide: "Words Hurt" from Family Matters
Wikipedia: Nerd

My baseball religion

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Nonfiction: Baseball as a Road to God by John Sexton
Novel: Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover
Novel: Iowa Baseball Confederation by WP Kinsella
Film: Field of Dreams (1989)
Film: The Natural (1984)
Essay: "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" by John Updike
Essay: "The Green Fields of the Mind" by A. Bartlett Giamatti
Poem: Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers by John Updike
Picture book: Oliver's Game by Matt Tavares
Memoir: Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin OR Praying for Gil Hodges by Thomas Oliphant

Documentary: Baseball "3rd Inning - The Faith of Fifty Million People" (1994)

Wikipedia: List of Major League Baseball single-game records

Drinking Games

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Essay: "Drinking Games" by Malcolm Gladwell
Webpage: http://calband.berkeley.edu/?media/songs/drinking-song
Film: On the Bowery (1957)
Film: Withnail and I (1986)
Film: 28 Days (2000)
Film: Strange Brew (1983)
Novel: Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
Nonfiction: Drinking in America: a history by Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin
Short story: "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" by J.D. Salinger
Short story: "A New Leaf" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poem: "I wish I could drink like a lady" by Dorothy Parker
Wikipedia:Binge drinking

British Autistic

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Memoir: George and Sam by Charlotte Moore
Article: "About Nick's boy" by Matt Seaton
Novel: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Nonfiction: Not Even Wrong by Paul Collins
Article: "The Victorian genius of Earlswood --– a review of the case of James Henry Pullen" by Caoimhghín S Breathnach and Conor Ward
Website: http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/
Website: http://www.wawro.net/
Website: http://www.autism.org.uk/
Chapter: "Autism: deficits in folk psychology exist alongside superiority in folk physics" by Simon Baron-Cohen in Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Wikipedia: Sociological and cultural aspects of autism

John Granger v Harry Potter

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Book series: Harry Potter septology by J.K. Rowling
Nonfiction: How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books by John Granger
Nonfiction: The Deathly Hallows Lectures: The Hogwarts Professor Explains the Final Harry Potter Adventure by John Granger
Nonfiction: Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures by John Granger
Wikipedia: John Granger

Damn Injuns

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Documentary: American Outrage (2007)
Journal: any one issue of The American Indian Quarterly
Website: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/alcatrazisnotanisland/index.html
Novel: Chancers by Gerald Robert Vizenor
Film: Powwow Highway (1989)
Film: Billy Jack (1971)
Poem: "In 1864" by Luci Tapahonso
Nonfiction: American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, Duane Champagne
Wikipedia: American Indian Movement

Antarctic Adventure

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Novel: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe
Novel: Pym by Mat Johnson
Novella: At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
Documentary: The Endurance (2000)
Dacumentary: March of the Penguins (2005)
Article: "Cold Comforts: Antarctic Research Bases Are Seriously Self-Sustaining" by Andrew Blum
Comics: Whiteout (volume one) by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber
Symphony: Sinfonia Antartic by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Film: Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Wikipedia: History of Antarctica

The Fisher King

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Novel: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
Film: The Fisher King (1991)
Film: Excalibur (1981)
Romance: Le Morte d'Arthur (Book II, Chapter XV) by Thomas Malory
Opera: Parsifal Act I by Richard Wagner
Picture book: Magic Beach by Crockett Johnson
Television: Criminal Minds, "The Fisher King" (two episodes)
Essay: "Wounded Masculinity: Parsifal and The Fisher King Wound" by Richard Sanderson
Webpage: http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/arthurian_legend/grail/fisher/
Wikipedia: Fisher King

Romero’s Zombies

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Nonfiction: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth
Nonfiction: George A. Romero by Tom Fallows and Curtis Owen
Radio: "Zombies: Still Undead, And Suddenly Everywhere" by Beth Accomando, Morning Edition
Radio: "Horror Film Director George Romero" by Terry Gross, Fresh Air
Film: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Film: Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Film: Day of the Dead (1985)
Film: Land of the Dead (2005)
Film: Diary of the Dead (2007)
Film: Survival of the Dead (2010)
Film: Zombi 2 (1979)
Film: Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Short story: "Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead" by Joe Hill
Wikipedia: Living Dead

Braaaaaaaains

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Guide: The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Comics: The Walking Dead, Volume 1 by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn
Audiobook: World War Z by Max Brooks
Novel: Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne
Novel: The Rising by Brian Keene
Film: Zombieland (2009)
Film: Braindead (1992)
Film: The Evil Dead (1981)
Film: Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Film reviews: coldfusionvideo.com's "Month of the Living Dead" series
Video Game: Left 4 Dead (2008)
Wikipedia: Zombie apocalypse

Not so real now, are you?

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Play: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
Film: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Film: Adaptation (2002)
Short film: Rejected (2000)
Short film: Duck Amuck (1953)
Comics: City of Glass: The Graphic Novel by Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, David Mazzucchelli
Comics: Animal Man, Book 1 by Grant Morrison
Television: "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" of The Twilight Zone
Short story: "The Story Writer" by Richard Wilson
Novel: Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf
Video game: Myst (1993)
Wikipedia: Metafiction