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.
Books
- 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
- Charles Bukowski
- 1984 by George Orwell
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Jodi Picoult
- 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
Everything Else
- Jac Vanek
- LadyGang (PodcastOne)
- The First Degree (PodcastOne)
- LiveJournal
- Myspace
- Sugarcult
- Finch
- The Warped Tour
- Becca Tobin
- Keltie Knight
- Panic! At The Disco
- LadyGang TV
- LadyGang Network
- LadyGang Tour
- The Tony Kornheiser Show (This Show Stinks Productions, LLC)
- Tony Kornheiser
- Serial (This American Life)
- Pardon the Interuption (ESPN)
- Michael Wilbon
- Washington Post
- The New York Times
- The Daily (The New York Times)
- Alexis Linkletter
- Billy Jensen
- “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)
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- “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)
- Breneé Brown Ted Talks
- The View (ABC)
- Barbara Walters
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