Writer, Vibe Check cohost, and Tony winning Producer, Zach Stafford joins The Stacks to discuss being a journalist, his many jobs over the year, and of course, books!. Zach reveals his surprise problematic favorite book, explains how his love of geography has informed his entire professional career and addresses the challenge of squaring his upbeat personality with being a serious journalist.
The Stacks Book Club selection for January is Erasure by Percival Everett. We will discuss the book on January 31st with Zach Stafford.
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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
- Vibe Check (Stitcher)
- Saeed Jones
- “Ep. 233 A Grieving Apocalyptic Historian with Saeed Jones” (The Stacks)
- Sam Sanders
- “Ep. 278 We’re Giving Him Drugs with Sam Sanders” (The Stacks)
- “Introducing: Vibe Check with Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford” (The Stacks)
- A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
- “Grindr just launched an online magazine” (Lizzie Plaugic, The Verge)
- Zach Stafford at Chicago Tribune
- Zach Stafford at The Guardian
- Ali Stroker
- “Ep. 294 People Just Have Never Seen It with Ali Stroker” (The Stacks)
- Michael R. Jackson
- Brandon Uranowitz
- The Advocate
- John Steinbeck
- “We Got Grudges, B!tch” (Vibe Check)
- The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
- “Ep. 108 Priya Parker on Meaningful Gatherings in the Time of COVID” (The Stacks)
- Joan Didion
- “We won’t respond to O’Shae Sibley’s stabbing death by toning down who we are” (Zach Stafford, MSNBC)
- Beyoncé
- “Black, gay and shot dead in his own car: this is another Missouri killing we should talk about” (Zach Stafford, The Guardian)
- Playboy
- 2020 Presidential Candidates Take On LGBTQ Issues At GLAAD Forum
- “Lovin’ on Me” (Jack Harlow, 2023)
- The New Yorker
- “The 5 Kinds Of People You Will Meet On Grindr” (Zach Stafford, Thought Catalog)
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
- “Ep. 268 Over Burdened and Under Funded by Roxanna Asgarian” (The Stacks)
- “Inside The Tragic Hart Family Murder-Suicide Crash” (Matt Gilligan, Investigation Discovery)
- Punished for Dreaming by Bettina L. Love
- The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Trump: The Art of the Deal by Tony Schwartz and Donald Trump
- Roxane Gay
- In the Wake by Christina Sharpe
- Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
- Erasure by Percival Everett
- American Fiction (Cord Jefferson, 2023)
- The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
- Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
- Kevin Aviance
- Women and Children First (Chicago, IL)
- The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
- Ryan Gosling
- Justin Timberlake
- Glamorous Trash with Chelsea Devantez
- “Celebrity Book Club: Britney Spears’s The Woman in Me (with Rob Anderson)” (Glamorous Trash)
- Sam Lansky
- The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (audiobook)
- Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
- My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey (audiobook)
- “Ep. 251 The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey — The Stacks Book Club (Chelsea Devantez)” (The Stacks)
- “Serena Williams to publish memoir about life ‘on and off the court’” (Lucy Knight, The Guardian)
- Asylum by Edafe Okporo
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Lewis and Clark Journals by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- Thomas Jefferson
- Andrew Jackson
- Sacagawea
- Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2006)
- Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
- Light in Gaza edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze
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