A lively and wide-ranging discussion with teacher-leaders and Writing Project staff, recorded live at the NWP Resource Development Retreat in Albuquerque, NM.

Books from the Conversation

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• Pure Drivel by Steve Martin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Drivel
  
• Bearstone by Will Hobbs: https://www.willhobbsauthor.com/books/bk_bearstone.html
  
• Shifting the Monkey by Todd Whitaker: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13265535-shifting-the-monkey
  
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover: https://tarawestover.com/book/
  
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: https://www.sealpress.com/titles/ijeoma-oluo/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781580056779/
  
• Ayiti by Roxane Gay: https://groveatlantic.com/book/ayiti/
  
• Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Bullshit_Night_in_Suck_City
  
• Doc Savage Novels/Comics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage
  
• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
  
• Poetry from: Avery Guess, Brett Gafney, Bianca Spriggs, Frank X. Walker, Crystal Wilkensen, Jeremy Paden
  
• Money to Burn by James Zagel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/916313.Money_to_Burn
  
• Dragonfly Dance by Denise Lajimodiere: https://tribalcollegejournal.org/dragonfly-dance/
  
• Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum of Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich: http://msupress.org/books/book/?id=50-1D0-3FCC#.W1EhGNhKjxs
  
• We Are Growing by Laurie Keller and Mo Willems: http://pigeonpresents.com/books/we-are-growing/
  
• The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_at_the_End_of_This_Book:_Starring_Lovable,_Furry_Old_Grover
  
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi: http://www.tomiadeyemi.com/books/
  
• Chemistry by Weike Wang: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549723/chemistry-by-weike-wang/9780525432227/
  
• The Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062694058/future-home-of-the-living-god/
  
• Room by Emma Donoghue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_(novel)
  
• Bear Town by Fredrik Backman: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beartown/Fredrik-Backman/9781501160769
  
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseinis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns