Siren's Recommended Reading

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• Mother Night & Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut

• Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

• To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy

• Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa

• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

• Catch-22 by Joseph Keller

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

• The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II by Molly Guptil Manning

• Head Space and Timing: Veteran Mental Health from a Combat Veteran Perspective by Duane K.L. France LPC

• Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma by Ken Falke and Josh Goldberg

Typewriters & the Typosphere

• The Typewriter Revolution by Richard Polt

• Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

• Royal Road Test by Ed Ruscha, Mason Williams, and Patrick Blackwell

• The Typewriter Database

• Notes from a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson, Oliver Uberti, Will Collyer, et al.

• Typewriter Rodeo: Real People, Real Stories, Custom Poems by Jodi Edgerton, et al.

• The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter by Brian Sonia-Wallace

Gender & Sexuality

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guinn

• FINE by Rhea Ewing

• How to Survive a Summer by Nick White

• Transgender History (Seal Studies) by Susan Stryker

• Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic by N. Erevelles

Disability/Medical Sociology

• Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

• Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice

• The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deidre Mask, Janina Edwards, et. al.

• Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses edited by Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer

• Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability edited by Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, and Michael Northern

Writing Craft

• The Invisible Art of Literary Editing by Bryan Furuness & Sarah Layden

• The Writer's Idea Book by Jack Heffron

• The Writer's Devotional: 365 Inspirational Exercises, Ideas, Tips & Motivations on Writing by Amy Page & Amy Peters

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

• Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature by Tina Welling

Spirituality/Activism

• Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill, et al.

• Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art by Gregory Sholette and Chloe Bass

• The Soul of Activism: A Spirituality for Social Change by

• The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, and Ai-Jen Poo

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition by Paolo Friere