Library:

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When we started TCI, we selected a small number of books to be in a lending library in our office, each of which somehow reflected our ethos. These are those books.

Sober 21 The Creative Independent, 2021

PRESENCE, Issue 1: IN THE MIST various, 2020

Software for Artists Book: Building Better Realities Various, 2020

Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis Paul Soulellis, 2020

The Artist’s Way Julia Cameron, 1992

Sci-Fi Sundays Selects Sarah Hotchkiss, 2020

I Trust My Guitar (Etc.), No. 2 Rachel Aggs, 2014

I Trust My Guitar (Etc.), No. 1 Rachel Aggs, 2011

DIY Guitar For Beginners Rachel Aggs, 2017

Midwinter Day Day Cortney Cassidy, 2019

Suddenly Photography by Allen Frame and anonymous found photographs and drawings, 2020

ScarJo Christine Smallwood (words), Mark Sussman (words), Chris Santa Maria (art), 2015

Princess of the Apocalypse Harmony Tividad, 2020

On feeling healthy The Creative Independent, 2019

Worksheet: On using the internet mindfully The Creative Independent, 2019

On finding your voice The Creative Independent, 2019

El Caracol (Spanish) The Creative Independent, 2019

El Caracol (English) The Creative Independent, 2019

How do you use the internet mindfully? The Creative Independent, 2018

On dealing with creative anxiety The Creative Independent, 2018

On making a living as an artist The Creative Independent, 2018

Hyperobjects for Artists Laura Copelin, Peyton Gardner and Timothy Morton, 2018

The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology Robert Motherwell, 1989

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott, 1884, 1984

Peter Fischli & David Weiss: How to Work Better Nancy Spector, Nat Trotman, 2016

Vegetation Francis Ponge, 1987

Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment Paper Monument, n+1, 2012

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Cal Newport, 2016

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings Yoko Ono, 1964, 2000

Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright, 1947, 1981

Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America Walter Abish, Laurie Anderson, David Askevold, Vito Acconci, Robert Horvitz, Nancy Wilson Kitchel, Alvin Lucier, Bernadette Mayer, Adrian Piper, Alan Sondheim, 1977

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work Mason Currey, 2013

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott, 1995

Voyage Around My Room Xavier de Maistre, 1794, 2016

Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert, 2016

Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews Calvin Tompkins, Paul Chan, 2013

Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century Marjorie Perloff, 2010

The Wave in the Mind, Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004