Speaker’s Book:
Every Blade Has Two Edges: The High Cost of Vengeance
Online:
Print:
- Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence, by Aaron T. Beck
- Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, by Roy F. Baumeister
Attribution and Retribution: Lighthouses, Nazis, and Rabbits
Online:
Print:
- Han van Meegeren Revisited, by Frederik H. Kreuger
- The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century, by Edward Dolnick
- I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger, by Frank Wynne
May You Live In Interesting Times: Tales of the Vexed and Hexed
Online:
- May You Live in Interesting Times – Grammarphobia
- The Ancient Art of Magic, Curses and Supernatural Spells – Ancient Origins
Print:
- Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy, by Bryan W. Van Norden
- Have You Been Hexed?: Recognizing and Breaking Curses, by Alexandra Chauran
- Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World, by John G. Gager
The Unkindness of Ravens: A Corvid’s Cunning
Online:
- Video: Ravens and Intelligence – National Geographic
- 10 Amazing Facts about Ravens – Softpedia.com
- Similar Species: Crows and Ravens – AllAboutBirds.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrapIttS9qg
Print:
- Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans, by John M. Marzluff & Tony Angell
- Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, by Bernd Heinrich
- In the Company of Crows and Ravens, by John M. Marzluff & Tony Angell
JUSTIFIED: Hollywood-Sanctioned Violence Porn
Online:
- The 10 greatest revenge films – Screen Robot
- The 20 Best Female Revenge Movies of All Time – Taste Of Cinema
- Great Revenge Movies Worth Hunting Down – The Playlist
- Korean Revenge Films – Dazed
Print:
- An Oral History of Tribal Warfare: The Meru of Mt. Kenya, by Jeffrey Fadiman,
- Payback – Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge, by David P. Barash
- Revenge and Forgiveness: An Anthology of Poems, by Patrice Vecchione
- Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means by William T. Vollmann
- War in the Tribal Zone – Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare, by R. Brian Ferguson
- Wild Justice: the Evolution of Revenge, by Susan Jacoby
Going Medieval: The Ferocious Vengeance of Jeanne de Clisson
Online:
- Jeanne de Belleville: Pirate or Politician? – James Adams Historical Enterprisesl
- Women Pirates: Jeanne de Clisson – The Lioness of Brittany – Lazer Horse
Print:
- The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
- Lectures of Lola Montez, by Lola Montez, published in 1858 online at archive.org
- Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World, by Jane Yolen
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 Michael Sollazzo, Daniel Cohen, Meeks Baker, Marci Bennet, Kurt Larson, and Isolde Honore. Thank you!
