Unabridged: One for the Books with Sam Sanders and Danyel Smith
This is a portion of the live recording of Traci’s new live show in LA “One for the Books” with KPCC and LAist. It’s a conversation with journalists Sam Sanders and Danyel Smith about how we talk about books and pop culture, why there’s a difference between the two worlds and how we should and could create change. Danyel also talks about her book Shine Bright and Black women in pop music.
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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.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Ulysses by James Joyce
Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
Reparations Club (LA)
Black Girl Songbook (Spotify)
Bliss by Danyel Smith
More Like Wrestling by Danyel Smith
“Ep. 215 It’s Kind of Wonderful, but it’s Kind of Awful with Danyel Smith” (The Stacks)
“Ep. 216 Shine Bright by Danyel Smith — The Stacks Book Club (Novena Carmel)” (The Stacks)
“Most dominant athlete of 2018: Simone Biles” (Danyel Smith, Andscape)
Seven Days (Mary J. Blige, 1997)
“How Taylor Swift Broke Ticketmaster” (Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic)
Into It with Sam Sanders (Vulture)
Vibe Check (Stitcher)
It’s Been a Minute (NPR)
“Danyel Smith highlights Black women who defined pop music in ‘Shine Bright’” (It’s Been A Minute, NPR)
“Hot Book Summer” with Traci Thomas (It’s Been A Minute, NPR)
The White Lotus (HBO)
Love is Blind (Netflix)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022)
“‘Wakanda’ Over It or: How I Learned to Come to Terms with ‘Black Panther’ Ambivalence” (Into It, Vulture)
“Ep. 231 At the End of Every Day There’s a Book with Lisa Lucas” (The Stacks)
From Scratch (Netflix)
From Scratch by Tembi Locke
“Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Sold for $900 Million to Media Company Backed by Blackstone” (Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin, Variety)
“The Juiciest Celebrity Memoirs of 2022 (Plus: What’s Chelsea Devantez Into?)” (Into It, Vulture)
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Finding Me by Viola Davis
The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson, 2021)
Damita Jo (Janet Jackson, 2004)
Ignition (Remix) (R. Kelly, 2002)
“Change the national anthem to R. Kelly’s 2003 hit “Ignition (Remix)” (WH Petition)
The Chronic (Dr. Dre, 2006)
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Barack Obama & Iced Tea (The Stacks, Instagram)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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