Citations/Reading List
My articles’ and podcast episodes’ corresponding books, poetry, and works of art
I have read and continue to read MUCH more than this, but here is a relatively comprehensive reading list of what has shaped my podcasts and writing! This list is not necessarily an endorsement of these (although I love all of the ones from authors I’ve interviewed!), but a list of what reading materials have informed and influenced my opinions and analyses.
Books by Authors I’ve Interviewed
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl by Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney
Dr. Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay’s books about The Simpsons and its uses in the classroom!
I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee
Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS by Maria Sherman
OFF THE EDGE: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are by Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
Books that Inspired K-Pop Artists that Became My Podcast Episode Topics
1Q84, Kafka on the Shore, and Sputnik Sweetheart, all by Haruki Murakami
Almond by Won-pyung Sohn (and here’s more about the author)
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince by Pierre Lassus
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Plus: Here’s some additional story context and more about the author)
Enchanted Night by Steven Millhauser
Into the Magic Shop by Dr. James R. Doty (Plus: Here’s some information about his organization, and here’s some past research related to the story)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Matilda by Roald Dahl (Plus: Here is a reflection on the story’s legacy, and here is more about the author)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (and here are some reviews of it)
Momo by Michael Ende
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon (and here’s the piece that led to the book being written)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (and here are some perspectives on its true meaning)
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin (and here’s an interview with the author)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (and here’s more about his worldviews)
Other Books that Inspired My Podcast Episodes
Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by Myeongseok Kang (and here’s an interview about the making of the book)
Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (for that 2-part episode, I also read and talked about The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard, The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour, and The Double: A Psychoanalytic Study by Otto Rank)
MANY books about the life and legacy of Tony Hsieh
Other Books I’ve Referenced on 17 Carat K-Pop
Chosen by Suyash Dasgupta (and read here about the reasons for its “multisensory reading” approach)
The Creation by E. O. Wilson
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Music, Language, and the Brain by Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (and here’s more on the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” photograph and its meaning)
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt
Other Books I’ve Referenced on Enthusiasts
American Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television by Christopher E. Bell
Beatleness by Candy Leonard
Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Posthuman by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro
Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton
The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers by Scott Atkins
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts by Jennifer C. Lena
Fans by Michael Bond
Fans: The Mirror of Consumption by Cornel Sandvoss
The Female Complaint by Laura Berlant
Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World by Anne Jamison
Fix Me Up: Essays on Television Dating and Makeover Shows, edited by Judith Lancioni
The Hidden Psychology of Social Networks by Joe Federer
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones
The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh: The Inside Story of The Sandbaggers and Television’s Top Spy by Robert G. Folsom
Lovemarks by Kevin Roberts
Nature’s Gambit: Child Prodigies and the Development of Human Potential by David H. Feldman and James H. Borland
Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV by Jennifer L. Pozner
Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched by Mark Andrejevic
Status and Culture by W. David Marx
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle J. Lindemann
Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth about Richey Manic by Sara Hawys Roberts and Leon Noakes
Women Who Love Men Who Kill by Sheila Isenberg
The 10-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu
Poems, Myths, Webtoons, and Short Stories Discussed on the Podcast(s)
“Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music” by John Dryden (the poem hidden in one of SEVENTEEN’s concert videos!)
“The Bridge” by Hart Crane
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
“The Double” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Good Bones” by Maggie Smith
“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Shadow” by Hans Christian Andersen
The Star Seekers (and here’s more on the mythology references: Pandora’s Box, Daedalus, and Icarus)
The myth of Faust and Mephistopheles (and here’s another analysis of Faust)
The stories of Bluebeard, his wives, the varied things the misadventures have come to represent, and the equally varied characterizations of the female characters
The story of Cupid and Psyche, covered through lenses ranging from psychological to literary (and here’s even more context!)
Artists and Specific Works of Art I’ve Covered
Alberto Giacommetti (and here’s more about him)
Alexander Calder (and here’s more on The Tree) (Speaking of Calder, this is probably my favorite project out of every work of art I’ve discussed on the show!)
Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
Emily Barker’s Death by a Million Paper Cuts (a helpful visualization of what I talked about in my Autism Acceptance Month speech!)
Ernst Caramelle’s Forty Found Fakes
Francis Alÿs’s Border Barriers Typology
François-Édouard Picot’s L’Amour et Psyché
(Curator) Harald Szeemann
Isamu Noguchi’s light sculptures
Louise Bourgeois’s massive spiders
On Kawara’s “Date Paintings” (and here’s more on On Kawara’s artwork)
Park Ko-suk (a personal favorite!)
Picasso and Fernande Olivier (and “Picasso’s First Love,” El Greco)
Roni Horn (Plus: Here’s more about Roni Horn, here’s some information about Félix González-Torres and Roni Horn’s joint exhibition, and here’s more about González-Torres)
Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains and nuns + monks
Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night