Andrew Ti is the creator and co-host of the Yo, Is This Racist podcast, and a comedy and TV writer. He joins the show today to talk about his journey from a neuroscience major at Columbia to the writers room on mixed-ish. We also talk about his relationship to problematic white authors, his aversion to funny books, and more.
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib, we will discuss the book on December 29th with Andrew Ti.
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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
- The Baby-Sitters Club Series by Ann M. Martin
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Oliver Sacks
- Jonah Lehrer
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
- How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Cultish by Amanda Montell
- What Doesn’t Kill You by Tessa Miller
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Meghan Daum
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
- The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
- Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
- There There by Tommy Orange
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Samantha Irby
- Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby (Audiobook)
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- Generation X by Douglas Coupland
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- Life After God by Douglas Coupland
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (Audiobook)
- A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
Everything Else
- Yo, Is This Racist? (Andrew Ti and Tawny Newsome)
- “Curiosity Canceled the Cat (with Traci Thomas)” (Yo, Is This Racist?, Andrew Ti and Tawny Newsome)
- “Yo, Can We Live: Book Recommendations/Fixing Andrew (with Traci Thomas)” (Yo, Is This Racist?, Andrew Ti and Tawny Newsome)
- Columbia University (New York, NY)
- “Jonah Lehrer’s journalistic misdeeds at Wired.com” (Charles Seife, Slate)
- Comedy Central
- Yo, Is This Racist? Blog (Andrew Ti)
- mixed-ish (ABC)
- Tawny Newsome
- “Ep. 41 Comedy, Race, Travel and Books with Tawny Newsome” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 42 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie — The Stacks Book Club (Tawny Newsome)” (The Stacks)
- Lena Dunham
- Jonestown
- Scientology
- QAnon
- “Ep. 104 So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson — The Stacks Book Club (Gigi Levangie)” (The Stacks)
- McSweeney’s
- Iowa Writer’s Workshop
- Saeed Jones on Twitter @theferocity
- Reservation Dogs (FX)
- Stories Books and Cafe (Los Angeles, CA)
- Amazon
- Strand Book Store (New York, NY)
- Tuca and Bertie (Netflix)
- Matthew Perry
- Friends (NBC)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
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