Our guest today is actress and comedian, Niccole Thurman, who is best known for being a citizen journalist onThe Opposition with Jordan Klepper, among other things. Niccole talks with us today about finding a creative outlet, dating challenges, and the need for more empathy. Fans of Oprah’s Book Club get ready, you may hear some familiar titles as we dive into Niccole’s faves.

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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

• She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
• The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

• How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
• When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
• Fear Street by R. L. Stine
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
• Black, White, and Jewish by Rebecca Walker
• Alice Walker
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Hey, Little Ant by Phillip M. and Hannah Hoose and Debbie Tilley

Everything Else

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper (Comedy Central)
• Shrill (Hulu)
• The Second City
• St. Vincent
• Dua Lipa
• “St. Vincent & Dua Lipa | Masseduction / One Kiss | 2019 GRAMMYs” (YouTube.com)
• “Lost in Your Light” (Dua Lipa ft. Miguel, 2017)
• “Fast Slow Disco” (St. Vincent, 2017)
• Steppenwolf Theatre
• The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
• Fox News
• Alex Jones
• The Atlantic
• HuffPost
• Drag Queen Story Hour
• “The Nefarious Workings of Drag Queen Story Time” (The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, Comedy Central)
• “Mississippi’s Last Abortion Provider” (The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, Comedy Central)
• Amazon Kindle
• Cardi B Instagram
• “A Suspense Novelists Trail of Deception” (Ian Parker, The New Yorker)
• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
• “White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not.” (Robin DiAngelo, The Guardian)
• Oprah’s Book Club
• The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)
• Josh Hutcherson
• The New York Times

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