The Short Stacks 27: Shea Serrano//Movies (and Other Things)

Shea Serrano is a three-time New York Times best selling author, whose most recent book Movies (and Other Things) is a collection of illustrated essays answering all the questions you didn’t know you needed answered when it comes to movies…and other things. We talk about Shea’s unconventional start as a writer, what his kids think of his work, and what its like working with illustrator Arturo Torres.
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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.

• Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres
• Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres
• The Rap Yearbook by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres
• Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book by Shea Serrano
• A League of their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992) 
• Major League (David S. Ward, 1989)
• The Sandlot (David Mickey Evans, 1993)
• Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)
• Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
• Barnes & Noble
• Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019)
• Can’t Hardly Wait by (Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, 1998)
• The Breakfast Club (John Huges, 1985)
• Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
• “‘Conference Room, Five Minutes’ Is Shea Serrano’s Love Letter to ‘The Office’” (Nic Dobija-Nootens, The Millions
• Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
• Jodie Foster
• The New York Times Best Sellers List
• Halle Berry
• Sandra Cisneros
• Luis Alberto Urrea
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
• The Ringer
• Bill Simmons
• Shea Serrano at The Ringer
• Diane Keaton
• Liv Tyler
• Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
• Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001)
• Empire Record (Allan Moyle, 1995)
• The Strangers (Bryan Bertino, 2008)
• Inventing the Abbotts (Pat O’Connor, 1997)
• That Thing You Do (Tom Hanks, 1996)
• Chuck Klosterman

• The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
• “Here Are Barack Obama’s Favorite Books and Music of 2017” (Jamie Ducharme, Time)
• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
• Missy Elliott

• Michelle Rodriguez
• The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen, 2001)

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