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

War of the Sexes

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Comic: "The War Between Men and Women" by James Thurber
Poem: The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
Play: Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Novel: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
Study: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier
Film: Adam's Rib (1949)
Film: Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Film: The War of the Roses (1989)
Song: "It's A Man's World" by Ice Cube and Yo-Yo
Picture book: Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen by Marissa Moss and C. F. Payne
Wikipedia: Battle of the Sexes (tennis)

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