This is a portion of the live recording of Traci’s new live show in LA “One for the Books” with KPCC and LAist. It’s a conversation with journalists Sam Sanders and Danyel Smith about how we talk about books and pop culture, why there’s a difference between the two worlds and how we should and could create change. Danyel also talks about her book Shine Bright and Black women in pop music.

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• One for the Books
• KPCC
• LAist
• Danyel Smith
• Sam Sanders
• The Crawford Family Forum
• Michael Arceneaux
• Kashana Cauley
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
• Reparations Club (LA)
• Black Girl Songbook (Spotify)
• Billboard
• Vibe
• ESPN
• NPR
• The New Yorker
• The New York Times Magazine
• Bliss by Danyel Smith
• More Like Wrestling by Danyel Smith
• Whitney Houston
• Janet Jackson
• Mary J. Blige
• Nancy Wilson
• Sade
• “Ep. 215 It’s Kind of Wonderful, but it’s Kind of Awful with Danyel Smith” (The Stacks)
• “Ep. 216 Shine Bright by Danyel Smith — The Stacks Book Club (Novena Carmel)” (The Stacks)
• Mariah Carey
• Simone Biles
• Beyoncé
• “Most dominant athlete of 2018: Simone Biles” (Danyel Smith, Andscape)
• Seven Days (Mary J. Blige, 1997)
• Aretha Franklin
• Cardi B
• Lizzo
• Latto
• Jhené Aiko
• Taylor Swift
• “How Taylor Swift Broke Ticketmaster” (Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic)
• The Beatles
• Into It with Sam Sanders (Vulture)
• Vibe Check (Stitcher)
• It’s Been a Minute (NPR)
• Oprah Winfrey
• “Danyel Smith highlights Black women who defined pop music in ‘Shine Bright’” (It’s Been A Minute, NPR)
• “Hot Book Summer” with Traci Thomas (It’s Been A Minute, NPR)
• LeBron James
• The White Lotus (HBO)
• Love is Blind (Netflix)
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022)
• “‘Wakanda’ Over It or: How I Learned to Come to Terms with ‘Black Panther’ Ambivalence” (Into It, Vulture)
• Angela Bassett
• Ryan Coogler
• Chris Jackson
• Trevor Noah
• Ibram X. Kendi
• Lisa Lucas
• “Ep. 231 At the End of Every Day There’s a Book with Lisa Lucas” (The Stacks)
• From Scratch (Netflix)
• From Scratch by Tembi Locke
• “Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Sold for $900 Million to Media Company Backed by Blackstone” (Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin, Variety)
• “The Juiciest Celebrity Memoirs of 2022 (Plus: What’s Chelsea Devantez Into?)” (Into It, Vulture)
• Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
• Keanu Reeves
• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson, 2021)
• Damita Jo (Janet Jackson, 2004)
• Damita Jo DeBlanc
• Ignition (Remix) (R. Kelly, 2002)

• “Change the national anthem to R. Kelly’s 2003 hit “Ignition (Remix)” (WH Petition)
• Stevie Wonder
• Aaliyah
• Anthony DeCurtis
• Rolling Stone
• The Chronic (Dr. Dre, 2006)
• LA Weekly
• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
• Kindle
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
• Shel Silverstein
• Kettle Cooked Salted Potato Chips
• Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
• Barack Obama & Iced Tea (The Stacks, Instagram)
• Toni Morrison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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