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– book: Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
– song: [Tool – Fear Inoculum](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DfQMPmJRI)
– film: Blade Runner
– painting: [The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Midnight_Ride_of_Paul_Revere.jpg)
I can’t give you what I think are *the* best or *the* top in each category. I think that’s impossible. What I *have* given you are some of my favorites.
Edit: I originally chose *Hell or High Water* as one of my favorites, but how could I have overlooked *Blade Runner*? It’s also adapted from a novel by one of the best science fiction writers, Philip K. Dick.
Book: House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Song: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Movie: The Searchers
Painting: No idea.
Seveneves
Paradise by the dashboard lights (meatloaf)
Terminator 2: judgement day
Fannie (fingerpainting)
**Book**: *Mason & Dixon* by Thomas Pynchon
(OR, *Song of Solomon* by Toni Morrison )
**Song**: *Ball and Chain* by Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin)
(OR, *Thriller* by Michael Jackson)
**Movie**: *On the Waterfront*
(OR, *Citizen Kane*)
**Painting**: *Nighthawks* by Edward Hopper
(OR, *American Gothic* by Grant Wood )
I’m hitting this from the “most American” rather than strictly the best.
Book: *Hocus Pocus* by Kurt Vonnegut. *Slaughterhouse Five* is magnificent but you really have to read *Hocus Pocus* to get in Vonnegut’s head.
Movie: This one is easy if not intuitive. It’s *Jaws*. Man vs. nature, Moby Dick-style, but writ both large and small. Also one of the most game-changing films in American history.
Song: this will be unpopular but *Amazing Grace*. I’m an atheist and I still love to sing along to this song. Probably the most-sung song in the USA. So goddamned beautiful.
Painting: this is really hard but I guess I have to nominate Wyeth’s *Christina’s World*. A daring, excellent painting, and it also kind of captures the spirit of America in a way. The vast expanse, and the determination to get over that horizon. It makes me feel feelings every time I see it.
Book: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Song: Fanfare for the Common Man – Copland
Painting: Washington Crossing the Delaware – Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, it just bleeds American. German American immigrant creates of the most epic depictions of the Revolution?
1 book: The Power Broker (Biography of Robert Moses) by Robert Caro
1 song Chimacum Rain by Linda Perhacs
1 movie No Country for Old Men
1 painting The Avenue in the Rain by Childe Hassan
Book: “The Grapes of Wrath” – John Steinbeck
Song: “Stand by Me” – Ben E. King
Movie: “Apocalypse Now” – Francis Coppola
Painting: “American Gothic” – Grant Wood
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