Our guest today is the host of the smash hit music podcast Dissect, Cole Cuchna. Cole joins us to discuss all things Dissect; like how the show came to be, why he focuses on hip-hop albums, the show’s incredible growth, and working with collaborators. Then we transition to a conversation on books and why Cole likes to read the complete works of some of literature’s heavy hitters.
The Stacks Book Club selection for November is The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore, we will discuss the book with Cole Cuchna on November 25th.
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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
- We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- To The Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann
- American Prison by Shane Bauer
- Underground by Haruki Murakami
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Chronicles by Bob Dylan
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Butterfly Effect by Marcus J. Moore
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Toni Morrison
- Ernest Hemingway
- Dashiell Hammett
- The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Irresistible by Adam Alter
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Underworld by Don Delillo
- The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
- 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Everything Else
- Dissect (Spotify)
- Kendrick Lamar
- To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar, 2015)
- DAMN. (Kendrick Lamar, 2017)
- Dissect Season 1: To Pimp a Butterfly (Dissect, Spotify)
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West, 2010)
- Dissect Season 2: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Dissect, Spotify)
- Kanye West
- Dissect Season 5: DAMN. (Dissect, Spotify)
- Femi Olutade
- Frank Ocean
- “Ep. 112 R. Eric Thomas//Here for It” (The Stacks)
- Power by Kanye West
- Dissect Season 6: Lemonade (Dissect, Spotify)
- Lemonade (Beyonce, 2017)
- Lemonade (Visual Album)
- Titi Shodiya
- Carpool Karaoke (The Late Late Show with James Corden, CBS)
- Drake
- Lauryn Hill
- Mini Series: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Dissect, Spotify)
- The Beatles
- Radiohead
- Ye (Kanye West, 2018)
- Freedom by Beyonce
- “Freedom by Beyonce” (Dissect, Spotify)
- Season 7: Because the Internet (Dissect, Spotify)
- Season 3: Frank Ocean (Dissect, Spotify)
- “The Short Stacks 25: Maurice Carlos Ruffin//We Cast a Shadow” (The Stacks)
- “American Hikers Leave Iran After Prison Release” (J. David Goodman and Alan Cowell, The New York Times)
- Mother Jones
- Bob Dylan
- Homeward Bound (Duwayne Dunham, 1993)
- Because the Internet (Childish Gambino, 2014)
- Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
- Beers Books (Sacramento, CA)
- Barnes & Noble
- “Ep. 20 Between the World and Me — The Stacks Book Club (Jay Conor)” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. The Autobiogaphy of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley — The Stacks Book Club (Marc Lamont Hill)” (The Stacks)
- By the Book (The New York Times)
- Donald Glover
- New York University
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