Joshua Tree Community
Beatnik Lounge (w/Reading Series)
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Morongo Basin Historical Society
Twentynine Palms Historical Society
Suggested Desert Titles
Writing
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, by Edward Abbey
Waking Life; Desert Dweller; In the Mojave, by Cynthia Anderson
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, by Jane Bennett
Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature, by John Beck
Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (Critical Climate Change), by Heather Davis & Etienne Turpin
Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, by T. J. Demos
Starshine Road, by. L.I. Henley
Whole Night Through, by L.I. Henley
“The Desert,” by Alduous Huxley
The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture, by David Jasper
Land and Environmental Art, by Jeffrey Kastner & Brian Wallis
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven, by Barry Lopez
“An Invitation to Ontopoetics: the Poetic Structure of Being“,
by Freya Mathews (Austrialian Humanities Review)
Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change (Radical Aesthetics, Radical Art), by Malcolm Miles
The Turquoise Ledge, by Leslie Marmon Silko
“Tony’s Story,”
by Leslie Marmon Silko
No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California’s Deserts, by Ruth Nolan, ed.
Ruby Mountain, by Ruth Nolan
Culture of One, by Alice Notley
The Desert, by Brandon Shimoda
Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California’s Desert, by David Rains Wallace
The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances, by John C. Van Dyke
Desert Gothic, by Don Waters
To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet, by Linda Weintraub
Film
Zabriskie Point, by Allison Anders
Lost Highway, by David Lynch
Lo Desert Sound, by Joerg Steineck
Simon of the Desert, by Luis Buñuel
Desert, by Stan Brakhage
Gas, Food, Lodging, by Donna Deitch
Paris, Texas, by Wim Wenders
Gerry, Gus Van Sant
Desert Hearts, Gus Van Sant
Fata Morgana, by Werner Herzog
El Topo, by Alejandro Jodorowsky
High Noon, by Stanley Kramer
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Sergio Leone
Desert Nights, William Nigh
Inner Passage or Déserts, by Bill Viola
Music
The Sky is Blue, The Desert is Yellow, A Hack and a Hacksaw
Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do,
Captain Beefheart
Unusual Occurrences in the Desert,
Grateful Dead
Desert Kisses,
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Crime in the Desert,
Brian Eno & John Cale
Little Fluffy Clouds,
The Orb
Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers
In the Mouth a Desert,
Pavement
To Bring You My Love,
PJ Harvey
Low Desert,
R.E.M.
Grey Diamond Desert,
Screaming Trees
Lonesome Desert Blues,
Bessie Smith
Déserts, by Edgard Varèse
Green Desert,
Tangerine Dream
Isao Tomita, Sunset
Mars Arizona, High Desert