The Short Stacks 9: Isaac Butler//The World Only Spins Forward

On April 10th, we will be discussing The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois for The Stacks Book Club. To get you ready for that conversation, we have co-author Isaac Butler on The (not-so) Short Stacks to talk about his background in theatre, how this oral history came to be, the logistics of writing as a duo, and about Isaac’s Shakespeare podcast, Lend Me Your Ears. We cover a lot of ground today, including a detour into the world of chips.

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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.

• The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
• Lend Me Your Ears (Slate Magazine)
• Angels in America by Tony Kushner
• Dan Kois
• Slate.com
• Tony Kushner
• Kathleen Chalfant
• Ellen McLaughlin
• “Angels in America: The Complete Oral History” (Isaac Butler and Dan Kois, Slate.com)
• Joe Mantello

• Nathan Lane
• Roy Cohn
• The Eureka Theatre Company
• Marcia Gay Harden
• David Marshal Grant
• “Tony Kushner with Isaac Butler and Dan Kois: Angels in America” (92Y Talks)
• “Nathan Lane Dances With the Octopus” (Isaac Butler, Vulture)
• Marianne Elliott
• How to Be A Family by Dan Kois
• The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
• Utz’s Crab Chips
• The Method by Isaac Butler (Coming 2021)
• Konstantin Stanislavski
• Inside the Actors Studio (Bravo)
• Romeo and Juliet by Willian Shakespeare
• Hamlet by Willian Shakespeare
• Henry VI (Trilogy) by Willian Shakespeare
• The Tempest by Willian Shakespeare
• Othello by Willian Shakespeare
• Measure for Measure by Willian Shakespeare
• Titus Andronicus by Willian Shakespeare
• Richard III by Willian Shakespeare
• Richard II by Willian Shakespeare
• Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999)
• Star Trek the Next Generation
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Hainish Novels and Stories by Ursual K. Le Guin
• The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Stanislaw Lem
• Sigrid Wurschmidt

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