Sam Sanders, host of the Into It and Vibe Check podcasts, joins us to discuss the history of objectivity in journalism, what identity is and how people wield it, and what it’s like having co-hosts and working with friends. We also hear how Sam decides which books to feature on his podcasts and how much he should share with his audience.
The Stacks Book Club selection for August is You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. We will discuss the book on August 30th with Sam Sanders.
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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.
- Into It (NY Mag/Vulture)
- Vibe Check (Stitcher)
- Saeed Jones
- Zach Stafford
- It’s Been A Minute (NPR)
- The NPR Politics Podcast (NPR)
- NPR
- Riverhead Books
- How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
- “Saeed Jones On ‘How We Fight For Our Lives’ — And How He Fought For His” (It’s Been A Minute)
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- LeVar Burton
- “Ep. 233 A Grieving Apocalyptic Historian with Saeed Jones” (The Stacks)
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- “Movie Industry Adapts, Plus LeVar Burton Reads” (It’s Been A Minute)
- “Ep. 119 All About the Drive with James McBride” (The Stacks)
- Vulture
- New York Magazine
- Ari Shapiro
- “Ep. 262 Joy, Surprise, and Uplift with Ari Shapiro” (The Stacks)
- NLGJA Journalist of the Year Award
- Fox News
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Ronald Reagan
- Janet Jackson halftime show controversy
- Section 230 of Communications Decency Act
- “Lawmakers seem confused about what Facebook does — and how to fix it” (Emily Stewart, Vox)
- One for the Books (November 16, 2022)
- Trayvon Martin
- “Weekly Wrap: ‘Who Are We?'” feat Zach Stafford (It’s Been A Minute)
- “Remembering André Leon Talley” feat Zach Stafford and Saeed Jones (It’s Been A Minute)
- The Advocate
- AM2DM by BuzzFeed News
- BuzzFeed
- “Life Has Been Lifing Lately” (Vibe Check)
- The Stacks Tour
- LAist
- When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey
- “Ep. 276 How We Keep Each Other Alive with Donovan X. Ramsey” (The Stacks)
- Those Who Wander by Vivian Ho
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The 1619 Project by NYMag, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, Jake Silverstein and Nikole Hannah-Jones (eds)
- Caitlin Dickerson
- Random House
- The New York Times
- The Atlantic
- “‘We Need to Take Children Away'” (Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic)
- Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman
- Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
- Live in The Stacks Tour — Chicago with Samantha Irby (August 27, 2023)
- Attached by Amir Levine
- Momfluenced by Sara Petersen
- QAnon
- Hot 97
- The Morning Show (Hot 97)
- The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
- Fleishman Is in Trouble (FX/Hulu)
- Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Claire Danes
- “Episode 7: Me Time” (Fleishman Is in Trouble)
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Reparations Club (Los Angeles, CA)
- RENAISSANCE by Beyonce on vinyl
- Mattimeo by Brian Jacques
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
- A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
- Erin Brockovich
- You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
- Danielle Steel
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