Ep. 49 Relationships and Recommendations with James Sexton

We're talking relationships today on The Stacks with long time divorce lawyer and author James J. Sexton. We discuss James' book If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late a guide on how-not-to be married. We get some good relationship advice, and some even better book recommendations, plus we talk about our favorite lawyer narratives.

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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

• If You're in My Office, Its Already Too Late by James J. Sexton, Esq.

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

• The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader

• The Sololist by Mark Salzman

• Lying Awake by Mark Salzman

• Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs

• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

• Dry by Augusten Burroughs

• Little Children by Tom Perrotta

• Election by Tom Perrotta

• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

• The Black Witch by Laurie Forest

• The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest

• Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

• The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

• The Force by Don Winslow

• The Cartel by Don Winslow

• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

• A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold

• Columbine by Dave Cullen

• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

• Legion by William Peter Blatty

• Grace and Grit by Ken Wilber

• The World's Religions by Huston Smith

• If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late by James J. Sexton (Audiobook)

• The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

• The Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

• Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman

• Conscientious Objections by Neil Postman

• The Rainmaker by Johnathan Grisham

• The Abuse of Innocence by Paul Eberle

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• John Grisham

• And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

• Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister

• Law and Order (NBC)

• The Love Boat (ABC)

• Fantasy Island (ABC)

• The New York Times Book Review

• "I’ll Have What She’s Having: Books for Better Sex and Better Relationships" (Judith Newman, The New York Times)

• Aaron Sorkin

• Amazon Kindle

• Metallica

• The Daily (The New York Times)

• National Public Radio (NPR)

• Mob Deep

• Garth Brooks

• Ariana Grande

• Calvin Harris

• Rage Against the Machine

• John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997)

• Matt Damon

• The McMartin Preschool Trials (History.com)

• Niel DeGrass Tyson

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