Lisa Lucas, Senior Vice President at Pantheon and Schocken, is our first ever book publisher to join the podcast. We discuss the path that led Lisa to her current role and how she sees book purchasing as integral to the push for diversity in publishing. We also talk about what inclusivity does and should mean in the world of books.
The Stacks Book Club selection for September is The Trees by Percival Everett. We will discuss the book on September 28th with Lisa Lucas.
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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.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Maya Angelou
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Tribeca Film Institute
- Brooklyn Book Festival
- Guernica Magazine
- National Book Foundation
- “Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business” (Marcela Valdes, The New York Times)
- Pantheon
- Schocken
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Penguin Random House
- Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
- BookScan
- Netflix
- Disney+
- Hulu
- The Criterion Collection
- A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Now is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
- Luster by Raven Leilani
- Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
- Motherhood by Sheila Heti
- No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
- Sugar by Bernice McFadden
- The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
- The Wall Street Journal
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
- A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid
- The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
- If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
- National Book Award
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes
- Pulitzer Prize
- Booker Prize
- Kirkus Prize
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- The Story Prize
- Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Chevalier’s Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Reparations Club (Los Angeles, CA)
- The Salt Eaters Bookshop (Inglewood, CA)
- “Ep. 101 Reading Black Women with Asha Grant” (The Stacks)
- Rick Perlstein
- Helen Garner
- Harriet Lerner
- Ben Lerner
- The Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner
- The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
- All About Love by bell hooks
- Uncoupling by Diane Vaughan
- Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
- Seek You by Kristen Radtke
- “Ep. 194 How We Understand Loneliness with Kristen Radtke” (The Stacks)
- Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère
- Bloodlands by Kimberly Snyder
- Swan’s Way by Marcel Proust
- Philip Roth
- Joan Didion
- Bunnicula by James Howe and Deborah Howe
- Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
- Long Division by Kiese Laymon
- Julian Lucas
- Imani Perry
- “Ep. 204 A Journey South with Imani Perry” (The Stacks)
- Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly
- The Trees by Percival Everett
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