Books Read In 2016

1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
2. A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story by Diana Butler Bass
3. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
4. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer
5. Heavy Metal Music In Britain by Gerd Bayer
6. The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg
7. The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online by Violet Blue
8. Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
9. Nazi Literature In The Americas by Roberto Bolano
10. The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
11. The Secret History of Science Fiction by T.C. Boyle
12. The Sorcerer's Daughter: The Defenders of Shannara by Terry Brooks
13. Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
14. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History Of The Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
15. Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling by Chris Charlton
16. X-Men: Days Of Future Past by Chris Claremont
17. Disgrace: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee
18. Panther In The Hive by Olivia A. Cole
19. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman
20. The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back by Alan Collinge
21. Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America by Matthew J. Costello
22. Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica by Kevin Courrier
23. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
24. Star Trek Archives: The Best Of Peter David
25. Women In Class Struggle by Marlene Dixon
26. Mystery Science Storybook: Bedtime Tales Based on the Worst Movies Ever by Sugar Ray Dodge
27. The Life Engineered by JF Dubeau
28. Husker Du: The Story Of The Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock by Andrew Earles
29. On Literature by Umberto Eco
30. Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings by George Eliot
31. Picture Windows: How The Suburbs Happened by Elizabeth Ewen
32. False Choices: The Faux Feminism Of Hilary Rodham Clinton by Liza Featherstone
33. Welcome To Night Vale: A Novel by Joseph Fink
34. The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime by Michael Fournier
35. Nirvana's In Utero by Gillian Gaar
36. Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman
37. The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain by David Goldblatt
38. Imagine: Living In A Socialist USA by Frances Goldin
39. Anxiety: A Short History by Allan V. Horwitz
40. Queen Of Chaos: The Misadventures Of Hillary Clinton by Diana Johnstone
41. The Walking Dead Volume One by Robert Kirkman
42. The Walking Dead Volume Two by Robert Kirkman
43. Capitalism: A Short History by Jurgen Kocka
44. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata
45. State & Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
46. Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller
47. Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism by Feisal Mohamed
48. All Star Superman by Grant Morrison
49. Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
50. Batman & Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow by Dennis O'Neil
51. The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized, History by John Ortved
52. Game Boy World: 1989: A History of Nintendo Game Boy, Volume One by Jeremy Parish
53. The Apology by Plato
54. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Rubin
55. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by Goerge Saliba
56. The Assasination Complex: Inside The Government's Secret Drone Warface Program by Jeremy Scahill
57. Batgirl 2012 Annual by Gail Simone
58. Lumberjanes Volume One by Noelle Stevenson
59. Lumberjanes Volume Two by Noelle Stevenson
60. The ABCs Of Socialism by Bhaskar Sunkara
61. The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia by Patrick Thorpe
62. The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 by Selina Todd
63. The Monsters Of Education Technology by Audrey Watters
64. Lumberjanes Volume Three by Shannon Watters
65. Lumberjanes Volume Four by Shannon Watters
66. Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
67. Race Matters by Cornell West
68. Crisis On Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman
69. A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Books Read In 2014

1. Breathing Machine, A Memoir of Computers by Leigh Alexander
2. Clipping Through: One Mad Week In Video Games by Leigh Alexander
3. And Eternity by Piers Anthony
4. vN by Madeline Ashby
5. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
6. The Boss by Abigail Barnette
7. Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
8. Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolano
9. Fetish Sex: A Complete Guide to Sexual Fetishes by Violet Blue
10. Borges On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
11. It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd
12. The High Druid's Blade: The Defenders of Shannara by Terry Brooks
13. Witch Wraith: The Dark Legacy of Shannara by Terry Brooks
14. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
15. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
16. The Divine Comedy by Dante
17. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
18. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
19. How To Read A Poem by Terry Eagleton
20. A Case Of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud
21. The Fear Of An Illusion by Sigmund Freud
22. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
23. Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry by Clinton Heylin
24. Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro
25. Devilish by Maureen Johnson
26. Critique Of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
27. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
28. Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
29. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
30. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
31. The Trial And Death Of Socrates by Plato
32. Rouge Code by Mark Russinovich
33. Trojan Horse by Mark Russinovich
34. Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
35. Dimension Of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
36. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
37. Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
38. Influx by Daniel Suarez
39. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves by Jill Walker Rettberg
40. The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil Degrasse Tyson
41. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil Degrasse Tyson
42. Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut by Kurt Vonnegut
43. Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
44. Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal by Melanie Warner
45. A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
46. Come To Our Show: Punk Show Flyers From DC To Down Under

ThatCamp Community College: An Overview

Here I am setting up in the morning. Picture by Gina Yanuzzi.

My co-coordinators Chris Gazarra and Gina Yanuzzi did a lot of work the morning of the unconference getting everything set up as I riffed ideas from previous ThatCamps at them. Gina drew this to give directions to those who were coming in.

After nearly a year of planning, the first ever ThatCamp Community College took place in the spring on our Mt Laurel campus here at BCC. We had a small group of about 10-12 at various times in the day (including a number of cancellations and no shows too), which led to very dense and productive sessions in the morning and then a rapid fire session to discuss proposed topics that did not receive enough votes.

Our morning sessions were about the key technological needs of community college students and how technology effects the form and logic of composition papers. I was so happy that our Dean in Liberal Arts, Nichole Bennett-Bealer, was able to sit in during the morning sessions for a bit.

After lunch we had one more session to discuss in rapid fire fashion some of the other session ideas that had been proposed in the morning. It was a small group, and mostly English and Literature faculty, so we could go into a detailed and deeper discussion.

I was so happy that our intern president David Spang was able to drop by for a little bit as well during the afternoon session. Dr. Spang has been extremely supportive since our first meeting back in August and I am grateful for his support and leadership here at BCC.

We will have information about next year's ThatCamp Community College later in the summer or early in the fall.

Our tag cloud of discussion posts so far...we are going to put this on shirts next year hopefully...

I am never in the Briggs Road Center, so I was pleasantly surprised by BCC having a Bolano quote on our news crawl.

Some campers getting set up in the morning.

Some notes from our planning session.

More notes.

Books Read In 2013

1. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
2. For Love Of Evil by Piers Anthony
3. Amulet by Roberto Bolano
4. Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks
5. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
6. Homeland by Cory Doctorow
7. Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
8. Falling Man by Don Delillo
9. Middlemarch by George Eliot
10. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Carolyn Maddux
11. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
12. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
13. And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life by Charles Shields
14. Freedom by Daniel Suarez
15. Kill Decision by Daniel Duarez
16. In Defense of Terror: Liberty or Death in The French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich
17. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
18. A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
19. Conversations With David Foster Wallace
20. Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner
21. Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities Anthology

Books Read In 2012

1. Being A Green Mother by Piers Anthony
2. The Tent by Margaret Atwood
3. New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
4. Racing The Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort
5. Amulet by Roberto Bolano
6. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
7. The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
8. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
9. The Mind of Italo Calvino by Dan Cavallaro
10. The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin
11. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
12. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
13. Crossed by Ally Condie
14. Noir by Robert Coover
15. Down & Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
16. The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow by Cory Doctorow
17. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donoghue
18. Football The First Hundred Years The Untold Story by Adrian Harvey
19. My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts by N. Katherine Hayles
20. The Map & The Territory by Michel Houllebecq
21. Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives by Jeff Howard
22. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
23. Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James
24. Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
25. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
26. The Life & Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson
27. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
28. Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
29. The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
30. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How they Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
31. Batman The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
32. Batman Year One by Frank Miller
33. Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
34. Paradise Lost by John Milton
35. Batman-The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
36. V For Vendetta by Alan Moore
37. The Watchmen by Alan Moore
38. Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabakov
39. King Lear by William Shakespeare
40. Authors In Context: Virginia Woolf by Michael Whitworth
41. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
42. The Quran (Sher Ali Holy translation)
43. Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
44. The Tel Quel Reader

Books Read 2011

1. Beowulf & Other English Poems
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Roland Barthes by Graham Allen
4. With A Tangled Skein by Piers Anthony
5. Collection of Aristophanes’ Plays
6. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
7. Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
8. Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes
9. Incidents by Roland Barthes
10. Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes
11. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
12. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
13. High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus by Terry Brooks
14. High Druid of Shannara: Tanaquil by Terry Brooks
15. The Path To The Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino
16. Six Memos For The Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
17. Under The Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
18. The Cambridge Companion To Chaucer
19. Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag by Stevie Chick
20. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
21. Matched by Ally Condie
22. Context-Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century by Cory Doctorow
23. Makers by Cory Doctorow
24. With A Little Help by Cory Doctorow
25. Ten Plays by Euripides
26. Discipline & Punish-The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
27. H.P Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
28. Virgina Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: Invisible Presences by Molly Hoff
29. The Odyssey by Homer (Butler translation)
30. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
31. Basrayatha: The Story Of A City by Muhammad Khudayyir
32. New York Hardcore 1986-1991: A Time We’ll Remember by David Koenig
33. Teaching Literature & Language Online (Edited by Ian Lancashire)
34. Piers Plowman by William Langland
35. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard
36. Italo Calvino: A Journey Toward Postmodernism by Constance Markey
37. Shakespeare’s Tragic Cosmos by McAlinden
38. Utopia by Sir Thomas More
39. Plato-Euthyphro
40. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino
41. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott
42. Civil Disobedience & Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau
43. Look At The Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
44. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
45. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
46. The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf

The Savage Detectives

Morning reading soundtrack. Still working through The Savage Detectives. Might detour into King Lear for class on Thursday.