Ep. 37 Representation, Basketball, and Books with Behzad Dabu
Today on The Stacks, our guest is actor, producer, and activist Behzad Dabu. Behzad is most well known for his roles on How to Get Away with Murder and The Chi. We talk about plays that are great on the page, representation on screen, and his love of basketball books.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
Blood and Gifts by J.T. Rogers
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph
Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
The Who and the What by Ayad Akhtar
Junk by Ayad Akhtar
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
August Osage County by Tracy Letts
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecth
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Court Vision by Ira Berkow
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
Showboat by Roland Lazenby
Just Kids by Patti Smith
If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Basketball: A Love Story by Jackie MacMullan
Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano
The Rap Yearbook by Shea Serrano
Game of Thrones Series by George R. R. Martin
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Contested Will by James Shapiro
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Lies My Teacher Taught Me by James W. Loewen
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Between the World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Foul Lines by Jack McCallum
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Tips by Jon Jory
Tips II by Jon Jory
True and False by David Mamet
Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deavere Smith
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Bible (The New American Standard)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Open City by Teju Cole
The Chi (Showtime)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
Training Day (Warner Bros. Pictures)
"Chun Li" by Nicki Minaj
House of Cards (Netflix)
August Osage County (The Weinstein Company)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
"The Case for Reparations" (Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic)
Ep. The Stacks Book Club -- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahesi Coates
Citizen Kane (RKO Radio Pictures)
Casablanca (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Godfather (Paramount Pictures)
Jaws (Universal Pictures)
E.T., The Extra Terrestrial (Universal Pictures)
Star Wars (20th Century Fox)
Titanic (Paramount Pictures)
Schindler's List (Universal Pictures)
Gone with the Wind (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
A League of Their Own (Columbia Pictures)
Jerry Maguire (TriStar Pictures)
Rudy (TriStar Pictures)
He Got Game (Buena Vista Pictures)
By The Book (New York Times)
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