Today on The Stacks we’re talking with TV writer and author Jenny Lee. Jenny is the author of Anna K a modern retelling of Anna Karenina set in the world of New York City’s teenage elite. Her brand new book is a sequel to the bestselling Anna K entitled, Anna K Away. We talk today about adapting a classic, what happens when the source material runs out, and the very real struggle of not always liking your work. 

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The Stacks Book Club selection for May is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy we will discuss the book with Jenny Lee on Wednesday May 26th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

Books

• Anna K by Jenny Lee
• Anna K Away by Jenny Lee
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Chevalier’s Books (Los Angeles, CA)
• Warcross by Marie Lu
• Elvis and the Underdogs by Jenny Lee
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
• My Own Country by Abraham Verghese 
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 
• Come to Me by Amy Bloom
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
• Normal People: The Scripts by Sally Rooney
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Conversation with Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Tennessee Williams
• Keep Sharp by Sanjay Gupta
• How to Speak K-Pop by Jungho Park
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• There There by Tommy Orange
• From a Taller Tower by Seamus McGraw
• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
• The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke
• A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
• Truly Like Lightning by David Duchovny
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Vladimir Nabokov
• The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Art of Raising a Puppy by The Monks of New Skete
• How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend by The Monks of New Skete

Everything Else

• Jordan Moblo (@jordys.book.club)
• Zendaya
• Shake It Up (Disney)
• Brown University
• Vivien Leigh
• Anna Karenina (Julien Duvivier, 1948)
• Anna Karenina (Aleksandr Zarkhi, 1967)
• Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012)
• Keira Knightley
• Game of Thrones (HBO)
• St. George’s School (Newport, RI)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Gossip Girl (CW)
• Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018)
• Cruel Intentions (Roger Kumbel, 1999)
• Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1989)
• Bling Empire (Netflix)
• Mary Evans
• The Pulitzer Prize
• National Book Award
• “Beyoncé in Her Own Words: Her Life, Her Body, Her Heritage” (Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Vogue)
• “Why Normal People by Sally Rooney is a book you can’t miss” (Shalini Shah, Vogue)
• “Was the Great Gatsby a black man?” (The Gaurdian)
• Joe Alwyn
• Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (2016)
• “Ep. 148 The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans — The Stacks Book Club (Deesha Philyaw)” (The Stacks)
• “Bidens’ dog Major involved in another biting incident” (Kate Bennett, CNN)

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