This independent comedy/fantasy comic book series wasn't intended to be for kids necessarily, but because of how savvily Jeff Smith marketed his self-publishing business, it became a hit for all-ages. We discuss Bone's impact on the library market, as well as its struggles with female representation and censorship.

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• Out From Boneville
• RASL
• Possessions
• A Tale of Sand
• Return of The Dapper Men
• Raina Telgemeier
• The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
• The Last Unicorn

Additional Resources:

• Interview: Jeff Smith Pt. 1
• AICN COMICS EXCLUSIVE! Alexandra DuPont Interviews BONE Creator Jeff Smith!!
• The History of BONE & Jeff Smith
• Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan panel votes not to ban elementary school book series
• Mix of tradition, fantasy comics pays off for artist
• The Jeff Smith Interview

This mainstream television series may be about the afterlife, but it also serves as a platform for defining our morality here in the real world. We discuss the team behind its creation and how they crafted a narrative that avoids political correctness, while teaching us about ethics and positivity in a time of political trauma.

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• Science... For Her!
• Let’s Get Physics Y’all
• EXPERIMENTING with Megan Amram
• The Lifeguard
• They Remain
• The Prisoner
• Brooklyn 99
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 

Additional Resources:

• Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
• The Complicated Morality of The Good Place
• The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool
• Talking to a Philosopher About ‘The Good Place’
• The Good Psychology In 'The Good Place'
• How Will NBC's 'The Good Place' Tackle Religion?
• How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote
• ‘The Good Place’s Optimism Is a Salve for Despair in the Trump Era
• 'The Good Place' Helps Normalize Interracial Relationships
• ‘The Good Place’ is The Most Woke Sitcom on TV
• ‘The Good Place’ brings representation and genius-level comedy to the small screen

This 2011 award-winning work of literary fiction has been celebrated by everyone from academics to Rolling Stone. But we look at it in light of its cultural expectations, from a "high brow" publisher, to its timidity about engaging with ethnically diverse characters.

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• A Visit From the Goon Squad
• Burn Collector
• The Loom of Ruin
• Commonwealth
• Run
• White Jazz
• American Tabloid
• The Cold Six Thousand

Additional Resources:

• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan – review
• “Goon Squad”: Jennifer Egan’s time-travel tour de force
• • CS Note: Salon’s site is so full of ads and video overlays that I could barely read the article as it slowed my computer to a halt.
• HBO Sets Pulitzer Prize Winner 'A Visit From The Goon Squad' For Series Treatment
• Strong, M. J. (2018). Found time: Kairos in A Visit from the Goon Squad. Critique, 59(4), 471-480.
• Cowart, D. (2015). Thirteen Ways of Looking: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Critique, 56(3), 241-254.
• MOLING, M. (2016). "No Future": Time, Punk Rock and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Arizona Quarterly, 72(1), 51.
• “Water, Water Everywhere,” By: WHELDON, WYNN. Commentary. Nov2017, Vol. 144 Issue 4, p60-62. 3p.
• “Big Novelist: Jennifer Egan,” By: Heller, Nathan. Rolling Stone. 5/31/2012, Issue 1158, p66-67. 2p.
• Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses A Visit From The Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, By: Godfrey, Laura; Egan, Jennifer; Herbert, Marilyn; Bookclub-in-a-Box (Firm). [England] : Bookclub-In-A-Box. 2012. eBook., Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

This 1967 movie was called "the death of cinema" by its creator, and operated as a critique of both capitalism and mainstream films. We try to understand how a man as notoriously malicious as Godard was to his cast and crew, could also use this platform to argue for a better world.  

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• The Magic Christian
• Trouble Every Day
• Guido Crepax
• Ravenous
• Maximum Overdrive
• Jim Jarmusch
• Hal Hartley
• David Cronenberg

Additional Resources:

• Revolution & Car Crashes: 5 Things Learned About Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Weekend’ From The Criterion Collection’s New Release
• Are You in a Film or in Reality? Jean-Luc Godard's 'Weekend' Will Have You Wondering
• Jones, Kent. Sight & Sound. Feb2016, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p46-51. 6p. 5 Color Photographs, 5 Black and White Photographs.
• Flashback: Weekend – Jean-Luc Godard’s assault on bourgeois values from 1967
• Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
• Two Weeks with “Weekend”
• Breaking The Rules - The French New Wave
• Godard’s Comic Strip Mise-en-Scène

This debut EP from a legendary Boston punk band has been held in critical reverence for over 30 years. We look to how the songs were written, recorded and distributed to try to unpack what it all does (or doesn't) mean.

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• Signals, Calls, and Marches
• Mission: Control!
• 24 Hour Party People
• The Cat and The Cobra
• Songs About Fucking
• entertainment!
• No Pussyfooting
• Larks’ Tongues In Aspic

Additional Resources:

• MISSION OF BURMA
• Mission of Burma  Signals, Calls, and Marches
• SIGNALS, CALLS, AND MARCHES
• AllMusic Review by Mark Deming
• Mission of Burma: Signals, Calls, and Marches / Vs.
• Artist Biography by John Dougan
• The secret of Mission of Burma’s longevity? Never having the chance to suck.
• Mission impossible  The story behind the legend of a seminal Boston band