Ep. 81 Writing in Books with Jac Vanek
Today we welcome Jac Vanek to The Stacks. Jac is the CEO of fashion and lifestyle brand, Jac Vanek. She is also one third of the LadyGang, and a co-host on The First Degree podcast. Jac takes us on a journey through her "emo-kid" past, tells us who made her into a reader, and shares why she loves writing in her books.
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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.
Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen (Audiobook)
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff
Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Dalí. The Paintings by Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles, CA)
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
Psycopath Free by Jackson MacKenzie
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Reingold
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
LadyGang (PodcastOne)
The First Degree (PodcastOne)
The Tony Kornheiser Show (This Show Stinks Productions, LLC)
Serial (This American Life)
Pardon the Interuption (ESPN)
The Daily (The New York Times)
"Ted Bundy, Part I" (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
"Discovering Death: The Murder of Kenny Thomas Jr." (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
"Chun-Li" Nicki Minaj (2018)
"The Jonestown Massacre, Part 1" (The First Degree, PodcastOne)
"Ep. 28 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou — The Stacks Book Club (Nancy Rommelmann)" (The Stacks)
Fyre Festival (New York Magazine)
The Drop Out (ABC News)
The Inventor (HBO)
"Everything We Know About The Bad Blood Movie" (Elena Nicolaou, Refinery 29)
The View (ABC)
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