Ep. 105 The Union of Science and Art with Brandon Taylor
Today marks the start of our third year here at The Stacks, and there is no better way to celebrate than by talking a whole lot about books! Thank you to all our listeners for their love and support, we can't wait for year three! Make sure to listen to the introduction today to hear about some exciting changes to the podcast.
Our Guest today is Brandon Taylor, debut author of one of 2020's buzziest books, Real Life. We talk today about releasing a book into the world, the similarities between science and art, and much more.
The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. We will discuss the book with Brandon Taylor on April 29th.
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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
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Severance by Ling Ma
False Papers by André Aciman
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Agnes Martin by Nancy Princenthal
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The White Album by Joan Didion
Lancaster and York by Alison Weir
Little by Edward Carry
Another Country by James Baldwin
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
"Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds" (The Stacks)
The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
"Working In Science Was A Brutal Education. That’s Why I Left." (Brandon Taylor, Buzzfeed News)
"Black Gay Writers Deserve to Tell Our Stories. Brandon Taylor's Real Life Achieves That and More" (Michael Arceneaux, Time)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
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