Menu

Resources & Reading Room

A collection of some works referenced on this website and in Hobo Nickels.
Their contents are varied and presented for the purposes of enjoyment, reference, & study


Architecture, Artisans & Craftsmen, Design, Iconography, &tc

Christopher Alexander Anti-modernist architect/architectural theorist, and father of pattern language. Books The Nature of Order, & A Pattern Language
Schemamonk Constantine Cavarnosprofessor and prolific author on topics of iconography, aesthetics, Saints, and more. See an interview here
Richard Davies Wooden churches in Northern Russia
Icons and their Interpretation
St. John of DamascusOn Holy Images

New World Byzantine Andrew Gould, artisan and designer specializing in traditional buildings and liturgical art
Odd Nerdrum and the Kitsch Movement
Leonid Ouspensky & Vladimir LosskyThe Meaning of Icons
Orthodox Arts Journal– Architecture, iconography, music, & much more
A Reader’s Guide to Orthodox Icons

Wrath of Gnontraditionalism, sustainability, localism, urbanism
Andrea Zitteland the Institute of Investigative Living. Home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs


Orthodox Publishing & Resources

Death to the World– …to inspire the truth-seeking and soul searching amidst the modern age of nihilism and despair, promoting the ancient principles of the last true rebellion: to be dead to this world and alive to the other world.
A Different Light: Youthful Travelers in Contemporary America
The works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
St. Herman Press
Writings of St. Isaac the Syrian, aka St. Isaac of Nineveh. Mystic Treatises Issac of Nineveh (published 1922). Listen here, read the Ascetical Homilies here.
Pravoslavie
The writings of Fr. Seraphim Rose

The Symbolic WorldProject of Jonathan Pageau et al.
St. Tikhon’s MonasteryBookstore/Press


The World

The American Sun
Antelope Hill Publishing
We believe in preservation with the printed page whenever possible to ensure independence from state or corporate control. We are willing to take on books that other publishers would consider a reputational risk. We will publish for lost causes, righteous mercenaries, anonymous critics, freedom fighters, revolutionaries, and exiles.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila– Reactionary political philosopher. The Authentic Reactionary (the archive); El Reaccionario Auténtico, (the article)
A Christian Understanding of Homosexuality
The Imaginative Conservative
Ernst Jünger Storm of Steel (note: get the 1929 translation)
Theodore Kaczynski Industrial Society and Its Future
Jerry ManderFour Arguments for the Elimination of Television (PDF)
The works of Cormac McCarthy
MosfilmRussian cinema masterpieces
All of the Movie Night category
Mystery Grove Publishing

Old European Culture
Dan Hitchens- Orwell & Contraception (archive)
Owen Cyclopsillustration & esoterica
Passage Publishing
Patient Zero and the Early Days of HIV/AIDS
Max Picard The World of Silence (PDF). Also on the Archive
Terror House MagazineTerror House’s mission is to publish outsider literary fiction, literary nonfiction, and cultural criticism/analysis…works that are too edgy, unusual, or honest to be released elsewhere.


Supplies & Essentials

Assembly LineBeautiful minimalist sewing patterns
Burning Bush Coffee
Fabrics Store– Where I source most of the linen for my clothing; also, free patterns
St. Paisius Monastery Prayer Ropes
Peppermint Magazine– Simple sewing patterns, available for small donation


Survival, Evasion, Resistance, & Escape

Judith Lewis Herman Trauma & Recovery (PDF)
Trapped in the Mirror

When the Unspeakable Happens Sex abuse and the Church (archive)
Why Does He Do That? (PDF)