Ep. 172 The Art vs. The Artist with Quentin Tarantino

Our guest today is Academy Award winning screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino, yes, that Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained). He joins us to talk about his debut novel, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a novelization of his film with the same title. We discuss the art versus the artist debate, the challenges of writing a novel, and if Tarantino really plans to retire from filmmaking after his next film.

The Stacks Book Club selection for July is The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. We will discuss the book with Mira Jacob on Wednesday July 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

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

• Quentin Compson, a William Faulkner character from The Sound and the Fury (and other works)

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Brad Pitt

• Leonardo DiCaprio

• Al Pacino

• Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)

• Sharon Tate

• The Manson Family

• Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)

• Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2014)

• Aldo Ray

• "Quentin Tarantino Sets Two-Book HarperCollins Deal; ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Novelization & ’70s Movie Deep Dive ‘Cinema Speculation’ To Follow" (Mike Fleming Jr., Deadline)

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

• Louis L'Amour

• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

• Sam Peckinpah

• Billy Cosby

• The Cosby Show (NBC)

• Uptown Saturday Night (Sidney Poitier, 1974)

• Gone with the Wind (Victor Flemming, 1939)

• Margaret Mitchell

• Charlie Parker

• "Quentin Tarantino" (Marc Maron)

• Jay-Z

• Frank Sinatra

• Michael Jordan

• Leon Spinks

• Elmore Leonard

• Charles Willeford

• City Primeval by Elmore Leonard

• Miami Blues by Charles Willeford

• New Hope for the Dead by Charles Willeford

• Sideswipe by Charles Willeford

• Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins

• Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

• Manson by Jeff Guinn

• Terry Melcher

• Chaos by Tom O'Neill

• The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn

• Pauline Kael

• Thomas Pynchon

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