A selection of my favorite readings & watchings throughout the years (in alphabetical order; * are my top picks.)

Books and Articles

  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

  • A Long and Happy Life by Reynolds Price*

  • All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy*

  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott*

  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

  • Click by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

  • Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy*

  • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa*

  • Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley

  • Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford*

  • Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong*

  • Heart the Lover by Lily King*

  • Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

  • How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham

  • If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

  • JPod by Douglas Coupland*

  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro*

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb*

  • Mr. Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe

  • My Inner Sky by Mari Andrew

  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

  • Outlawed by Anna North*

  • Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton*

  • Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise by David Foster Wallace

  • Sister Snake by Amanda Lee ‘Koe

  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

  • Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner

  • Sky Daddy by Kate Folk*

  • That’ll Never Work by Marc Randolph

  • The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron by Rebecca Keegan*

  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman

  • The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

  • The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

  • The Red Notebook by Paul Auster*

  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel by Robert Gipe

  • Wanting by Claire Jia

  • Watership Down by Richard Adams*

Movies [M] and Shows [S] (Director/Creator)

  • Always Be My Maybe [M] (Nahnatchka Khan)

  • American Psycho [M] (Mary Harron)

  • Anora [M] (Sean Baker)

  • Billions [S] (Brian Koppelman, David Levien & Andrew Ross Sorkin)

  • Boyhood* [M] (Richard Linklater)

  • Before Sunrise [M] (Richard Linklater)

  • Didi [M] (Sean Wang)

  • Drive* [M] (Nicolas Winding Refn)

  • Fleabag [S] (Phoebe Waller-Bridge)

  • Flow [M] (Gints Zilbalodis)

  • Furious [S] (Elizabeth Meriwether)

  • Gattaca [M] (Andrew Niccol)

  • Gilmore Girls [S] (Amy Sherman-Palladino)

  • Hacks [S] (Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky)

  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi [M] (David Gelb)

  • Last Holiday* [M] (Wayne Wang)

  • Magic Mike [M] (Steven Soderbergh)

  • Mistress Dispeller [M] (Elizabeth Lo)

  • Moonlight [M] (Barry Jenkins)

  • Ne Zha 2 [M] (Yu Yang)

  • Notting Hill [M] (Roger Michell)

  • Past Lives [M] (Celine Song)

  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings [M] (Destin Daniel Cretton)

  • Smoke* [M] (Wayne Wang)

  • Sorry, Baby [M] (Eva Victor)

  • Super Troopers [M] (Jay Chandrasekhar)

  • The Beast in Me [S] (Gabe Rotter)

  • The Deep Blue Sea [M] (Terence Davies)

  • The Drama [M] (Kristoffer Borgli)

  • The Florida Project* [M] (Sean Baker)

  • The Secret of My Success [M] (Herbert Ross)

  • The Wedding Banquet [M] (Andrew Ahn)

  • Train Dreams* [M] (Clint Bentley)

  • Triangle of Sadness [M] (Ruben Östlund)

  • WALL-E* [M] (Andrew Stanton)

  • What We Do in the Shadows [M & S] (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)

  • Worth It [S] (Steven Lim, Andrew Ilnyckyj & Adam Bianchi)