Ep. 47 Reading, Writing, and Representation with Wade Allain-Marcus

Its time for another episode of The Stacks. Today our guest is actor (Insecure, Snowfall), director (French Dirty), and writer (Grown-ish) Wade Allain-Marcus. We talk about how TV shows are written, white savior narratives, and connecting with the emotional truth of a story. Plus, we're joined by Wade's chatty dog Tika.

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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

• Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Birdwell

• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson

• The Art of the Heist by Myles J. Connor and Jenny Siler

• Danzy Senna

• New People by Danzy Senna

• A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

• Cidade de Deus (City of God) by Paulo Lins

• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

• James Baldwin

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

• Roots by Alex Haley

• Another Country by James Baldwin

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

• Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Just Kids by Patti Smith

• Martin McDonagh

• The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

• Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

• William Shakespeare

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

• Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare

• Henry V by William Shakespeare

• Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare

• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

• 50 Shades of Grey by E. L. James

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Color of Water by James McBride

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• Insecure (HBO)

• Snowfall (FX)

• Grown-ish (ABC)

• French Dirty (Jesse and Wade Allain-Marcus, 2015)

• City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, 2002)

• Yara Shahidi

• Ep. 6 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin -- The Stacks Book Club (Chris Maddox) (The Stacks)

• The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock, 2009)

• The Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018)

• Mahershala Ali

• The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)

• Viggo Mortensen

• Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, 1989)

• Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005)

• Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)

• Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)

• Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, 2018)

• Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018)

• Johannes Vermeer

• Rembrandt van Rijn

• Ep. 7 Talking Books with Sam Pinkleton (The Stacks)

• Robert Mapplethorpe

• Paul Thomas Anderson

• Barry Jenkins

• The Cohen Brothers

• Shonda Rhimes

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