Award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson joins the show to discuss his new book Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion. He explains why he wanted to write about the intersection of basketball and fashion in this hybrid of lookbook and cultural commentary. We also get into basketball’s best and worst dressed, what winning the Pulitzer has meant to Mitchell and why he never reads for pleasure.
The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Severance by Ling Ma. We will discuss the book on November 29th with Mitchell S. Jackson.
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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.
- Fly by Mitchell S. Jackson
- The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
- Survival Math by Mitchell S. Jackson
- New York University (New York City, NY)
- Portland Trail Blazers
- Clyde Drexler
- Terry Porter
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Magic Johnson
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- James Worthy
- Chicago Bulls
- Michael Jordan
- Golden State Warriors
- LeBron James
- Steph Curry
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Jason King
- Welcome to the Terrordome by Dave Zirin
- David Stern
- Allen Iverson
- Malice at the Palace
- “Michael Jordan and gambling: A brief history of basketball’s most famous bettor” (Sam Quinn, CBS Sports)
- The Sugarhill Gang
- “Russell Westbrook Says Utah Jazz Fan Made ‘Racial’ Taunt That Led to Confrontation” (The New York Times, Matt Stevens and Kevin Draper)
- Adam Silver
- Bob Cousy
- Wilt Chamberlain
- Bill Russell
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
- Jordan Clarkson
- Tyler Herro
- “The Second Coming of Stephen Curry” (Hanif Abdurraquib, GQ Sports)
- Russell Westbrook
- Paul George
- Ashley North
- Donovan Mitchell
- Rudy Gay
- Carmelo Anthony
- Fear of God
- Pulitzer Prize
- “Twelve Minutes and a Life” (Mitchell S. Jackson, Runners World)
- Marie-Helene Bertino
- National Magazine Awards
- Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
- Van Lathan
- Two Distant Strangers (Netflix)
- Fat, Crazy and Tired by Van Lathan
- Mitchell S. Jackson at Esquire
- Michael Crichton
- Andy Weir
- Dan Brown
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- Dangerous Women by Hope Adams
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- Antigone by Sophocles
- “Ep. 42 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie — The Stacks Book Club (Tawny Newsome)” (The Stacks)
- Jon Krakauer
- Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
- “Ep. 66 Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson — The Stacks Book Club (Dave Cullen)” (The Stacks)
- Drown by Junot Diaz
- Gordon Lish
- Raymond Carver
- Barry Hannah
- Ray by Barry Hannah
- Severance by Ling Ma
- Samuel Beckett
- August Wilson
- Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- The Ferguson Report by Nicole Sealey
- So to Speak by Terrance Hayes
- How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
- If I Survive You by Jonathan Escofferey
- Lot by Bryan Washington
- Family Meal by Bryan Washington
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
- MOVE bombing
- Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
- Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Severance by Ling Ma at Rep.club (code: STACKS10 for 10% off)
- Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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