Speaker’s Book:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney
Delightful Deceits With Trompe-l’œil
Online:
- Trompe-l’oeil History in Art – Domenico Scarlatti
- Gijsbrechts, Cornelius: The Reverse Side of a Painting (1670) – Tom Lubbock
- Review/Art; William Harnett and the Trompe l’Oeil Still Life – The New York Times
- This Dog Trying To Eat The Bone Painted On His Water Bowl Is What We Need Right Now – BuzzFeed
- Reconstruction of Hunting on the Lagoon and Two Venetian Ladies – The Getty Museum
Print:
- Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, by E.H. Gombrich
- Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, and the Artists of Optical Illusion, by Al Seckel
- The Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art, by Michael Kubovy
This Is Not My Beautiful Wife: The Capgras Delusion
Online:
- The Masks of Identities: Who’s Who? Delusions Misidentification Syndromes – The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
- Finding the Impostor: Understanding a Rare Delusional Disorder Using Brain Connectivity – Oxford University Press
- That’s Not My Child! A Case of Capgras Syndrome – Psychiatric Times
Print:
- Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, by V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks
- The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers
The Ship of Theseus: How Do You Know You’re Real?
Online:
- The Ship of Theseus: A Brilliant Ancient Thought Experiment Exploring What Makes You You – Brainpickings
- (Podcast) Atomic Tune-Up: How the Body Rejuvenates Itself – NPR
Print:
Published Lies Are Truer: Pslamanazar’s Land Of Formosa
Online:
- Made in Taiwan?: An Eighteenth-Century Frenchman’s Fictional Formosa – The Appendix
- “Tongue with a Tang”: Survey of an 18th Century Pseudo-Language – Thomas A. Reisner
Print:
- The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar’s Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax, by Michael Keevak
- Memoirs of ****. Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar; A Reputed Native of Formosa. Written by Himself, in Order to Be Published After His Death, by George Psalmanazar. Online on Google Books
- An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, by George Psalmanazar. Online at Archive.org
The Real-life Hua Mulan
Print:
- Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the United States, by Lan Dong
- Mulan Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts, by Shiamin Kwa and Wilt L. Idema
The Original Imitation Game: Party Games & Turing Tests
Online:
- Computing Machinery and Intelligence – A. M. Turing
- The Other Turing Test – Wired
- The Turing Test, 1950 – The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Barbara North, Eva Galperin, Matt Mills, Aaron Doran, Christina Liu, and Cameo Wood. Thank you!
