Actor Clark Moore (Love, Simon, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is our guest on the show today. We talk about what it is like being an adult that teenagers look up to and how social media has changed the way we see our role models. We also discuss the challenges of being and adult reading YA, and why Clark is seeking out books that center the stories of queer people of color.
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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.
Books
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- A Very, Very Bad Thing by Jeffery Self
- Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
- Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- American Fire by Monica Hesse
- The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
- The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Towles
- South and West by Joan Didion
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Penin by Vladimir Nabokov
- Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
- Ginderbread by Helen Oyeyemi
- The Cosmopolitans by Sarah Schulman
- Lot by Bryan Washington
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
- Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
- Life Will be the Death of Me by Chelsea Handler
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Yay! You’re Gay! Now What? by Riyadh Khalaf
- Zagat Restaurant Guides by Zagat
- Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Everything Else
- Love, Simon (Greg Berlanti, 2018)
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW)
- Big Momma’s House (Raja Gosnell, 2000)
- Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2003)
- The O.C. (Fox)
- James Van Der Beek
- Dawson’s Creek (The WB)
- Us Weekly
- Nathan Lee Graham
- Sweet Home Alabama (Andy Tennant, 2002)
- Reese Witherspoon
- Will & Grace (NBC)
- Hulu
- Saved by the Bell (NBC)
- Seinfeld (NBC)
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (ABC)
- Martin (Fox)
- Living Single (Fox)
- Who? Weekly (Who? Weekly)
- The Tony Kornheiser Show (This Show Stinks Productions, LLC)
- “Ep. 42 Home Fire bby Kamila Shamsie — The Stacks Book Club (Tawny Newsome)” (The Stacks)
- “The Short Stacks 10: Bryan Washington//Lot” (The Stacks)
- Bryan Washington on Instagram
- Kylie Minogue
- Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA)
- “I Wanna be Sedated” (Entourage, HBO, Season 3 Episode 10)
- Adrian Grenier
- Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France)
- Chelsea Handler: Life Will Be the Death of Me (iHeartRadio)
- Chelsea Lately (E!)
- After Chelsea (E!)
- Ali Wentworth
- George Stephanopoulos
- “Ep. 20 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates — The Stacks Book Club (Jay Connor)” (The Stacks)
- Saeed Jones on Twitter
- Buzzfeed
- AM to DM (Buzzfeed)
- “Ep. 6 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin — The Stacks Book Club (Chris Maddox)” (The Stacks)
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