Ep. 38 Open City by Teju Cole -- The Stacks Book Club (Behzad Dabu)
This week actor Behzad Dabu (How to Get Away with Murder, The Chi) joins us again to discuss Teju Cole's novel, Open City. The book is a meditation on borders, terror, and belonging set against the back drop of a post 9/11 New York City, and centers a Nigerian immigrant as our guide. This week we discuss the book in detail, there are spoilers, however this book is less about plot and more about big ideas. Listen at your own discretion.
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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
Open City by Teju Cole
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan Jobs
Soft Power (Center Theatre Group)
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
"Louis C.K. Slithers Back, Whether We’re Ready or Not" (Amanda Hess, The New York Times)
Key and Peele
"Self-professed neo-Nazi James A. Fields Jr. convicted of first-degree murder in car-ramming that killed one, injured dozens" (Joe Heim and Kristine Phillips, The Washington Post)
The Simpsons (FOX)
The Problem with Apu (truTV)
"CNN Fired Marc Lamont Hill to Comfort Conservative Snowflakes" (Eric Levitz, New York Magazine)
"The Trouble with Corey Lewandowski on CNN" (Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker)
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