Monday, April 4, 2011

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

Friday, April 1, 2011

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