{"id":9156,"date":"2017-11-15T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=9156"},"modified":"2017-11-15T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:42:23","slug":"favorites-of-human-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?page_id=9156","title":{"rendered":"Favorites of Human Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Writers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick Rothfuss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Baldwin<\/li>\n<li>Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/li>\n<li>Octavia Butler<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Delany<\/li>\n<li>Charles Dickens<\/li>\n<li>E.M. Forster<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Isherwood<\/li>\n<li>P.K. Jemisin<\/li>\n<li>James Joyce<\/li>\n<li>Franz Kafka<\/li>\n<li>Klaus Mann<\/li>\n<li>Mary Renault<\/li>\n<li>Anne Rice (aka A.N. Roquelaire)<\/li>\n<li>Starhawk<\/li>\n<li>Neal Stephenson<\/li>\n<li>Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>Gore Vidal<\/li>\n<li>Katie Waitman<\/li>\n<li>Scott Westerfeld<\/li>\n<li>Edmund White<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The\u00a0Merro Tree<\/i>\u00a0by Katie Waitman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Catch Trap<\/em> by Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/li>\n<li><em>The Naked Civil Servant<\/em> by Quentin Crisp<\/li>\n<li><em>Something in Between<\/em> by Melissa de la Cruz<\/li>\n<li><em>Tides of Lust<\/em> by Samuel Delany<\/li>\n<li><em>A Single Man<\/em> by Christopher Isherwood<\/li>\n<li><em>The Broken Earth Trilogy<\/em> by\u00a0P.K. Jemisin<\/li>\n<li><em>The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions<\/em> by Larry Mitchell<\/li>\n<li><em>1984<\/em> by George Orwell<\/li>\n<li><em>Woman on the Edge of Time<\/em> by Marge Piercey<\/li>\n<li><em>The Time of Our Singing<\/em> by Richard Powers<\/li>\n<li><em>The Golden Compass<\/em> trilogy (<em>The Golden Compass<\/em>, <em>The Subtle Knife<\/em>, <em>The Amber Spyglass<\/em>) by Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li><em>The Last of the Wine<\/em> by Mary Renault<\/li>\n<li><em>The Persian Boy<\/em> by Mary Renault<\/li>\n<li><em>The Kingkiller Chronicle<\/em> (<em>The Name of the Wind<\/em> and <em>The Wise Man&#8217;s Fear<\/em>) by Patrick Rothfuss<\/li>\n<li><em>The Fifth Sacred Thing<\/em> by Starhawk<\/li>\n<li><em>The Uglies<\/em>\u00a0series (<em>Uglies<\/em>, <em>Pretties<\/em>, <em>Specials<\/em>, <em>Extras<\/em>) by Scott Westerfeld<\/li>\n<li><em>Nocturnes for the King of Naples<\/em> by Edmund White<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Poetry<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Nipples and Cocks&#8221; by James Broughton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Howl&#8221; by Allen Ginsberg<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Harlem&#8221; (&#8220;What happens to a dream deferred?&#8221;) by Langston Hughes<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We Two Boys Together Clinging&#8221; and &#8220;Glimpse Between an Interstice Caught&#8221; by Walt Whitman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Non-Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Between the World and Me<\/em> by Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n<li><em>Runaway Inequality<\/em> by Les Leopold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Pattern Language<\/em> by Christopher Alexander<\/li>\n<li><em>The New Jim Crow<\/em> by Michelle Alexander<\/li>\n<li><em>Biological Exuberance<\/em> by Bruce Bagemihl<\/li>\n<li><em>Christianity, Homosexuality, and Social Tolerance<\/em> by John Boswell<\/li>\n<li><em>Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe<\/em> by John Boswell<\/li>\n<li><em>Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict<\/em> by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan<\/li>\n<li><em>Commitment and Community<\/em> by Rosabeth Moss Kanter<\/li>\n<li><em>The Shock Doctrine<\/em> by Naomi Klein<\/li>\n<li><em>Mutual Aid<\/em> by Peter Kropotkin<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ego Tunnel<\/em> by Thomas Metzinger<\/li>\n<li><em>Small Is Beautiful<\/em> by E.F. Schumacher<\/li>\n<li><em>The Politics of Nonviolent Action<\/em> by Gene Sharp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ending Racism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How to Be an Anti-Racist<\/em> by Ibram X. Kendi<\/li>\n<li><em>Uprooting Racism<\/em> by Paul Kivel<\/li>\n<li><em>My Grandmother&#8217;s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies<\/em> by\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: inherit\">Resmaa Menakem<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Playwrights<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Sherman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li>Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Plays<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Slowly Down the Stream<\/em> by Martin Sherman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em> by William Shakespeare (I did an adaptation called <em>A Midwinter Afternoon&#8217;s Nightmare<\/em> with the faeries)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Nether<\/em> by Jennifer Haley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Film \/ Movies \/ Television<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Film Directors<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pedro Almod\u00f3var<\/li>\n<li>Rainer Werner Fassbinder<\/li>\n<li>Peter Greenaway<\/li>\n<li>Derek Jarman<\/li>\n<li>Stanley Kubrick<\/li>\n<li>Ang Lee<\/li>\n<li>Michael Moore<\/li>\n<li>Sergei Paradjanov<\/li>\n<li>Pier Paolo Pasolini<\/li>\n<li>Wachowskis<\/li>\n<li>John Waters<\/li>\n<li>Wim Wenders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Full-Length Films<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angels in America<\/li>\n<li>Born in 68<\/li>\n<li>Hidden Figures<\/li>\n<li>The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/li>\n<li>Pride<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arabian Nights<\/li>\n<li>Avatar<\/li>\n<li>Barry Lyndon<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful Boxer<\/li>\n<li>Cinema Paradiso<\/li>\n<li>A Clockwork Orange<\/li>\n<li>Crash<\/li>\n<li>The Decameron<\/li>\n<li>The Devil&#8217;s Backbone<\/li>\n<li>Dorian Blues<\/li>\n<li>The Dreamers<\/li>\n<li>Eating Out<\/li>\n<li>Eighteen<\/li>\n<li>The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/li>\n<li>Harold and Maude<\/li>\n<li>The Hawks and the Sparrows<\/li>\n<li>In America<\/li>\n<li>Johanna d&#8217;Arc of Mongolia<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Got His Gun<\/li>\n<li>Latter Days<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont<\/li>\n<li>Oedipus Rex<\/li>\n<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/li>\n<li>Pink Flamingos<\/li>\n<li>Rabbit-Proof Fence<\/li>\n<li>Ride With the Devil<\/li>\n<li>Running on Empty<\/li>\n<li>Sebastiane<\/li>\n<li>Something the Lord Made<\/li>\n<li>Songcatcher<\/li>\n<li>Stage Beauty<\/li>\n<li>Sunshine<\/li>\n<li>Teorema<\/li>\n<li>Under Milk Wood<\/li>\n<li>Whale Rider<\/li>\n<li>What Have I Done to Deserve This?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s Eating Gilbert Grape<\/li>\n<li>Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Documentaries<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Square<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anarchism in America<\/li>\n<li>Capitalism: A Love Story<\/li>\n<li>An Inconvenient Truth<\/li>\n<li>Iron Jawed Angels<\/li>\n<li>Salt of the Earth<\/li>\n<li>Sicko<\/li>\n<li>The Take<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>TV Series<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dear White People<\/li>\n<li>Dirili\u015f: Ertu\u011frul (English: &#8220;Resurrection: Ertu\u011frul&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coppers<\/li>\n<li>Elementary<\/li>\n<li>Game of Thrones<\/li>\n<li>The Get Down<\/li>\n<li>The Good Doctor<\/li>\n<li>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/li>\n<li>Orange Is the New Block<\/li>\n<li>Orchid Black<\/li>\n<li>Sense8<\/li>\n<li>Shades of America<\/li>\n<li>The Simpsons<\/li>\n<li>True Blood<\/li>\n<li>Underground<\/li>\n<li>Will<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Visual Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Painters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banksy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aubrey Beardsley<\/li>\n<li>Friedensreich Hundertwasser<\/li>\n<li>Gustav Klimt<\/li>\n<li>Gustave Moreau<\/li>\n<li>Pablo Picasso<\/li>\n<li>Odilon Redon<\/li>\n<li>Vincent van Gogh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Paintings<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guernica by Pablo Picasso<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt<\/li>\n<li>Buddha Walking Among the Flowers, The Druidess, Muse on Pegasus, Reflection, and Sacred Heart by Odilon Redon<\/li>\n<li>Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Sculpture<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David by Donatello<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taj Mahal designed by\u00a0Ustad Ahmad (a.k.a. Isa Khan)<\/li>\n<li>Casa Battlo\u00a0designed by Antoni Gaudi<\/li>\n<li>Park Guell by Antoni Gaudi<\/li>\n<li>La Sagrada Familia designed by Antoni Gaudi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Classical Composers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sergei Prokoviev<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samuel Barber<\/li>\n<li>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin<\/li>\n<li>Claude Debussy<\/li>\n<li>George Enescu<\/li>\n<li>Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov<\/li>\n<li>Gordon Jacob<\/li>\n<li>Erik Satie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chamber Music<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Octet for Strings by George Enescu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pastorale by Amy\u00a0Beach<\/li>\n<li>String Quartet No. 2, III. Notturno, by\u00a0Alexander Borodin<\/li>\n<li>Trio by Madeleine Dring<\/li>\n<li>Octet for Strings by George Enescu<\/li>\n<li>Cumberland Suite by Eric Ewazen<\/li>\n<li>An Evening in Georgia by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov<\/li>\n<li>Sextet, especially Cortege movement, by Gordon Jacob<\/li>\n<li>Sextuor by Francis Poulenc<\/li>\n<li>Three Romances by Robert Schumann<\/li>\n<li>Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano by Carl Reinecke<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Canon by Nikola Resanovic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Classical Orchestral\/Band Works<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mtsiri by\u00a0Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber<\/li>\n<li>Pictures of an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (arranged by Maurice Ravel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Popular Musical Artists<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Black Angels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Beatles<\/li>\n<li>David Bowie<\/li>\n<li>Cream<\/li>\n<li>Crosby, Stills, Nash, &amp; Young<\/li>\n<li>Brian Eno<\/li>\n<li>Nina Hagen<\/li>\n<li>Jimi Hendrix<\/li>\n<li>Joni Mitchell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Popular Music<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Currency&#8221; by The Black Angels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All-time favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Blue&#8221; by Joni Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Woodstock&#8221; by Joni Mitchell (also version performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written Word Writers Current favorites: Patrick Rothfuss All-time favorites: James Baldwin Marion Zimmer Bradley Octavia Butler Samuel Delany Charles Dickens E.M. Forster Christopher Isherwood P.K. Jemisin James Joyce Franz Kafka Klaus Mann Mary Renault Anne Rice (aka A.N. 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