Ep. 41 Comedy, Race, Travel and Books with Tawny Newsome

We are joined by Tawny Newsome, a modern day renaissance woman. Tawny is known for her work as an actress, comedian, and podcaster. She is the co-host of the Yo, is this Racist? podcast, and The Super Group podcast. Tawny talks with us about racism through her lens as a comedian, reading all the travel memoirs (even the bad ones), and what Leonardo Dicaprio movie is also one of her most beloved books. Plus all the book lady comedian memoir recommendations you can handle, so get your TBRs ready.

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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.

Books

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
• Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare
• Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
• Another Country by James Baldwin
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• Bad with Money by Gaby Dunn

• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• James Baldwin
• Ernest Hemmingway
• You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
• Shrill by Lindy West
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
• Rick Steves
• Chelsea Handler
• Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks
• The Beach by Alex Garland
• References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot by José Rivera
• bell hooks
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
• The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• The Art of Travel by
• Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
• Thirst by Scott Harrison

Everything Else

• Yo, is this Racist? (Earwolf and Andrew Ti)
• The Super Group (Stitcher)
• The Second City
• Yo, is this Racist Blog
• “986 My Great Grandfather Fought Nazis (w/ DeRay Mckesson)” (Earwolf and Andrew Ti)
• “975 Is Wearing New Balance Racist? (w/ Jon Lovett)” (Earwolf and Andrew Ti)
• Crooked Media
• Kara Brown
• Keep It (Crooked Media)
• Ira Madison III
• Louis Virtel (Twitter)
• “989 Being Black In America (w/ Nicole Byer)” (Earwolf and Andrew Ti)
• The Goonies (Warner Bros.)
• 23 and Me
• “‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Podcast Challenges Racism Through Comedy” (Morning Shift, WEBZ Chicago)
• “Ep. 6 Giovanni’s Room by James Badlwin — The Stacks Book Club” (The Stacks)
• Flywheel Sports
• Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix)
• “Ep. 20 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates — The Stacks Book Club” (The Stacks)
• The Extraordinary Negroes (Jay Conor and Alex Hardy)
• Traci’s Favorite Ten Books of 2018
• The Office (NBC)
• Shrill (Hulu)
• Aidy Bryant
• Queer Eye (Netflix)

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