Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds is a New York Times best selling author and a National Book Award finalist. He writes novels and poetry for young people, and they'll all tell you Jason just "gets it". We sit down with Jason to discuss his new book Look Both Ways, how his love of music led to a career as an author, and what book he would assign in high school.
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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.
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
My Name is Jason. Mine Too. by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Educated by Tara Westover
The Island Sea Women by Lisa See
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Sanders
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
The Early Simple Stories by Langston Hughes
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Malcolm X by Manning Marable
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
Cane by Jean Toomer
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Honey, I Love and Other Poems by Eloise Greenfield
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Where Do We Go From Here by Martin Luther King Jr.
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Black Reign by Queen Latifah
Living Single (FOX)
Friends (NBC)
The Boondocks (Cartoon Network)
227 (NBC)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin Schaffner, 1968)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, 2018)
Dope (Rick Famuyiwa, 2015)
Me Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015)
"Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)" (The Stacks)
Hamilton (2015)
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