
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.
Books
- 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
Everything Else
- 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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