This Unabridged episode features audio from our Washington DC stop of The Stacks Tour, featuring bestselling author and friend of the show Jason Reynolds. We discuss Jason’s bath routine, the real story behind his book Ghost and our favorite guest on The Stacks.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.

• There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey 
• Ghost by Jason Reynolds
• When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
• The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
• As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds
• Loyalty Bookstores (Washington, DC)
• Gavin Newsom
• Jason’s bathtub broom and dustpan
• Alpha Keri Oil
• Schomburg Society (NYC)
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
• Battle of the Banned at the MLK Library (Washington, DC)
• Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (Washington, DC)
• Southwest Library (Washington, DC)
• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
• Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC)
• William Shakespeare
• “#1 New York Times Bestselling Children’s Book Author and Two-Time National Book Award Finalist Jason Reynolds to Publish Debut Novel for Adults with Scribner” (Simon & Schuster)
• “Ep. 198 We’ll Be Okay with Jason Reynolds” (The Stacks)
• Iseey Miyake Pants
• “Ep. 160 Black People Doing Spectacular Things with Hanif Abdurraqib” (The Stacks)

• A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
• “Ep. 172 The Art vs. The Artist with Quentin Tarantino” (The Stacks)
• Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
• Monsters by Claire Dederer
• “Uma Thurman’s story about Quentin Tarantino adds another layer to the #MeToo conversation” (Heather Dockray, Mashable)
• Kiese Laymon
• “Episode 1239 – Quentin Tarantino” (WTF with Marc Maron)
• “Quentin Tarantino | Club Random w/Bill Maher” (Club Random)
• Safeway
• “Ep. 261 All at Once with Clint Smith” (The Stacks)
• Arsenal F.C.
• The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• The Offer (Paramount+)
• Miles Teller
• Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
• BlacKKKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
• Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1940)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• “The secrets behind Vivien Leigh’s red dress in ‘Gone with the Wind’” (Floriane Reynaud, Vogue)
• Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Flux by Jinwoo Chong
• Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
• A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

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