Today on the podcast we’re discussing Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, and to join us for The Stacks Book Club, is actor, comedian, and podcast host, Tawny Newsome. Home Fire is a modern retelling of Antigone set against the backdrop of fear and anti-Muslim sentiments in modern day London. Shamsie won the Women’s Prize for Home Fire in 2018, and we totally understand why. We’ve got all the spoilers this week, so make sure to read the book first, then come back and listen.
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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.
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- Yo, is this Racist? (Earlwolf and Andrew Ti)
- The Women’s Prize
- Antigone by Sophocles
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
- The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
- BD Wong
- Van Jones
- Scene on Radio (Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University)
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- White Chicks (Columbia Pictures)
- How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days (Paramount Pictures)
- She’s All That (Miramax Films)
- Saul Bass (Art of the Title)
- Helen Yentus — Be My Cover
- Ben Denzer
- Homeland (Showtime)
- Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
- The Leftovers (HBO)
- Mouzam Makkar
- Champions (NBC)
- Kumail Nanjiani
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
- Nobodies (TV Land)
- Usman Ally
- This Is Us (NBC)
- Priyanka Chopra
- Riz Ahmed
- Behzad Dabu (Behzad on The Stacks)
- Rami Malek
- Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
- Sunita Mani
- Glow (Netflix)
- Mr. Robot (USA)
- “If” (Janet Jackson, Youtube)
- Flywheel
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