Our guest today is Marc Lamont Hill. Marc is a modern day renaissance man. He is an author (Nobody, We Still Here), professor, owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books, and the host of the new podcast Coffee & Books. Marc joins us today to discuss his passion for reading, Black death as a form of entertainment, and what readers should know about selling books.
The Stacks Book Club selection for October is The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, we will discuss the book with Marc Lamont Hill on October 28th.
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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
- Nobody by Marc Lamont Hill
- We Still Here by Marc Lamont Hill
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
- Dick and Jane by William S. Gray
- The Outsiders by. S. E. Hinton
- Are You There God? Its Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier
- Danielle Steel
- Jabari Asim
- belle hooks
- Jason Reynolds
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Except for Palestine by Marc Lamont Hill
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- Mountain Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- New People by Danzy Senna
- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
- Breathe by Imani Perry
- The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch
- The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Samantha Irby
- Remembered Rapture by belle hooks
- The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
- Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- James Baldwin
- Rage by Bob Woodward
- All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- JFK by Fredrik Logevall
- Wicked Flesh by Jessica Marie Johnson
- Stakes is High by Mychal Denzel Smith
- Traces of Racial Exception by Ronit Lentin
- Brother Ray by Ray Charles and David Ritz
- Luther by Craig Seymour
- Respect by David Ritz
- Aretha by Aretha Franklin with David Ritz
- W. E. B. Du Bois by David Levering Lewis
- José Saramago
- Junot Díaz
- Octavia E. Butler
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) by American Psychiatric Association
Everything Else
- Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books (Philadelphia, PA)
- Coffee and Books (Embassy Row)
- Temple University
- The Marshall Plan
- The G. I. Bill
- Jet Magazine
- Ebony Magazine
- Hakim’s Bookstore
- Dawud Hakim
- Haymarket Books
- Frank Barat
- “White Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park” (Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times)
- “CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill in wake of remarks criticizing Israel and calling for a ‘free Palestine’” (Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post)
- “Disgraced comedian Louis CK is going on a world tour — so much for cancel culture” (Daniel Bukszpan, CNBC)
- “Ep. 118 Living the Revision with Kiese Laymon” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 122 Breathe by Imani Perry — The Stacks Book Club (Kiese Laymon)” (The Stacks)
- Love Jones (Theodore Witcher, 1997)
- Jay-Z
- “Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Talks “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own”” (Coffee & Books, Embassy Row)
- “Marc Lamont Hill on Voting Green, Not Being Afraid of Trump: ‘We Can Afford to Lose an Election; We Can’t Afford to Lose Our Values'” (Kirsten West Savali, The Root)
- Luther Vandross
- “David Ritz Discusses His Impressive Ghostwriting” (Coffee & Books, Embassy Row)
- The New York Times Best Seller List
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