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Mike Agger
Assistant Editor, Tripod

If I were sent to Micronesia tomorrow, this would be my cultural survival kit...

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Field Work by Seamus Heaney
Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
Changes in the Land by William Cronon
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R. Tolkien
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
A Walk with Thomas Jefferson by Philip Levine
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
America by Jean Baudrillard
Coming into the Country by John McPhee

Dazed and Confused (1993)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Metropolitan (1990)
Slacker (1991)
Breakfast Club (1985)
Rear Window (1954)
Bladerunner (1982)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
The Player (1992)

CrookedRain, Crooked Rain, Pavement
The Wayward Bus, Magnetic Fields
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Peng!, Stereolab
King of America, Elvis Costello
The Smiths, The Smiths
Reckoning, R.E.M.
Arise Therefore, Palace Brothers
Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair

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