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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.

The Artist’s Way

Julia Cameron, 1992

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

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