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.

Books

• 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

Everything Else

• 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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