Stormcrow: Afterlife Artist Quest XIV

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Some very very last minute samples. We hope to make a final decision by tomorrow.

The first is by Juan Pablo Milito:

And the next two are from Carlos Hernandez:

Whoops... and let's not forget Wenberg with another two page sample.

2009 Reading List

"A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail" by Bill Bryson
"The Log from the Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck & Ed Ricketts
"A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny
"Ex-Kop" by Warren Hammond
"Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity" by Matt Miller
"Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror" by Steve Alten (horrible book, I do NOT recommend it!)
"This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin
"Children of the Mind" by Orson Scott Card
"Xenocide" by Orson Scott Card
"Speaker For The Dead" by Orson Scott Card
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
"Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century" by P.W. Singer
"All Tomorrow's Parties" by William Gibson
"Jurassic Park" by Michael Crighton
"Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things" by Laurence Gonzales
"A Bridge Too Far" by Cornelius Ryan
"The Ecstasy of Owen Muir" by Ring Lardner, Jr.
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character" by Richard P. Feynman
"Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell
"The Gross: The Hits, The Flops--The Summer That Ate Hollywood" by Peter Bart
"Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
"Rat Pack Confidential" by Shawn Levy
"Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State" by David Satter

2008 Reading List

"The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country" by Howard Fineman
"The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick
"Hollywood" by Charles Bukowski
"Neuromancer" by William Gibson
"The Game Players of Titan" by Philip K. Dick
"Time Out of Joint" by Philip K. Dick
"Clans of the Alphane Moon" by Philip K. Dick
"Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut
"In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat" by Rick Atkinson
"The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction" ed. by Robert Silverberg
"Rickles' Book" by Don Rickles
"Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad
"Voyage From Yesteryear" by James P. Hogan
"KOP" by Warren Hammond
"The Accidental Time Machine" by Joe Haldeman
"Conan" by Robert E. Howard

2007 Reading List

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
"Pyongyang: A journey in North Korea" by Guy Delisle
"Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson
"My Life and Hard Times" by James Thurber
"Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America" by Cullen Murphy
"The Sandman: Fables & Reflections" by Neil Gaiman
"World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" by Max Brooks
"Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy" by Matt Ruff
"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
"Boffo!: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb" by Peter Bart
"The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq" by John Crawford
"Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror" by Robert Young Pelton
"Them: Adventures with Extremists" by Jon Ronson
"Fray" by Joss Whedon
"Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry" by Priscilla Long
"Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields" by Barry P. Michrina
"Growing Up in Coal Country" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
"Gasping for Airtime" by Jay Mohr
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
"Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman
"Band of Brothers: E Company..." by Stephen E. Ambrose

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