12 May 2024

Northern Exposure Literature Canon

 This is a list (sorted by episodes--some needed) of various works Chris has quoted or read from:[51]

  • Walt Whitman, the complete works[9]
  • Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols[4]
  • Voltaire, Henriade[43]
  • Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are[52]
  • Tolstoy, War and Peace[50]
  • Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human[1]
  • Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death[40]
  • Jack London, Call of the Wild[53]
  • Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth[54]
  • Holling Clancy Holling, Paddle-to-the-Sea[55]
  • Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV[49]
  • Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat[33]
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment[56]
  • Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance[38]
  • Herman Melville, Billy Budd[13]
  • Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey[57]
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne, When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces[58]
  • E.B. White, Charlotte's Web[58]
  • Henry David Thoreau, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau[59]
  • John Whitaker Watson, Beautiful Snow And Other Poems[60]
  • Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex: Volume Two, Lived Experience[61]
  • Robert A. Johnson, She: Understanding Feminine Psychology[61]
  • Carl Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man[62]
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude[62]
  • Frederick Langridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts[63]
  • Thomas Paine, Rights of Man[63]
  • Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America[63]
  • William Wordsworth, Poems In Two Volumes[64]
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden[65]
  • Robert Frost, A Boy's Will[66]
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems[34]
  • Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat[67]
  • Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream[11]
Unknown episodes
  • Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
  • Hegel, Early Technological Writings
  • Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
  • Nietzsche, Logic and The Metaphysics of Morals
  • Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (in translation, Chris does not read French)
  • The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  • Raymond Chandler, Red Wind
  • Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
  • Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell (editor), The Portable Jung
  • Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

10 May 2024

The Philadelphia Eleven Documentary



On Tuesday, May 21, at 7:00 pm there will be a screening of a new documentary called The Philadelphia Eleven, which tells the story of the first group of women to be ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church. There will be a moderated discussion after the film featuring several panelists, including the Rev. JoAnn Bradley Jones, the Rev. Thomas Szczerba, and the Rev. Dr. Flora Keshgegian. 


See the film's webpage here:

https://www.philadelphiaelevenfilm.com/



There is more information and a trailer on this webpage: 

https://brynmawrfilm.org/event/the-philadelphia-eleven/