The Short List

Books, articles, essays, and podcasts I love for personal and professional inspiration, updated when the muse strikes.

Books

• Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer

• The Content Strategy Toolkit, by Megan Casey

• The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson

• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharpe

• Don't Call It That by Eli Altman

• How to Fascinate by Sally Hogshead

Articles & Essays

• Frank Chimero on causing ‘good trouble’ | Creative Boom

• Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker

• Famous Names | The New Yorker

• The Salacious Middle Ages | Aeon

• Jocelyn K. Glei on Ideation & Accountability

• Everyone's A Copywriter | Clare Barry

• The Flavour Revolutionary | Aeon

• A Man, A Plan, A Lemon, China | TASTE

• We Are Multitudes | Aeon

• The Weird Science of Naming New Products | The New York Times

Podcasts

• Hurry Slowly, by Jocelyn K. Glei

• The Habitat, by Gimlet Media

• Limetown

• The Taste Podcast