Unabridged: The Oakland Live Show with Leila Mottley

This Unabridged features audio from our first stop on The Stacks tour in Oakland with Leila Mottley. We talk about her book Nightcrawling and share our reality TV hot takes. We also give audience book recommendations with a special guest. This is an edited version of the live show, so if you want more, come join us on tour! Get your tickets here.

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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.

• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

• Oprah’s Book Club

• Heathrow Airport (London UK)

• Women’s World Cup

• Oakland Airport (Oakland, CA)

• SFO Airport (San Francisco, CA)

• Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

• Screen Actors Guild

• Writers Guild of America

• International Brotherhood of Teamsters

• Oprah Winfrey

• Stedman Graham

• Gayle King

• Oprah’s Book Club Instagram

• Oprah gives away books at the beach (IG)

• Old Navy

• “Sex, suicide and failure to report: How Oakland police scandal unfolded” (Sara Sidner, CNN)

• Ron DeSantis

• TikTok

• Nightcrawling on Goodreads

• The Bachelorette

• Brayden Bowers

• Michelle Young

• Nayte Olukoya

• Brandon Jones

• 112

• Dale Moss

• Clare Crawley

• “Every Detail of the Vanderpump Rules #Scandoval Drama in Chronological Order” (Hannah Selinger, Vulture)

• Love is Blind (Netflix)

• Too Hot to Handle (Netflix)

• The Ultimatum: Queer Love (Netflix)

• The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (Netflix)

• The Real Housewives of Potomac

• Ramona Singer

• Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

• Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta

• Marcus Books (Oakland, CA)

• The Stacks Pack

• The Art of Desire by Selena Montgomery

• Stacey Abrams

• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwake Emezi

• “Barack Obama’s 2023 Summer Reading List Is Here” (Emily Burack, Town & Country)

• Solito by Javier Zamora

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• Tin House workshop

• MacDowell writers residency

• Magical Negro by Morgan Parker

• Under a Soprano Sky by Sonia Sanchez

• We Were Once a Family by Roxana Asgarian

• The Hart Family Murders

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

• Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

• Evicted by Matthew Desmond

• Promises of Gold by José Olivarez

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

• National Book Award

• The Big Five Publishers

• West VA University Press

• 1491 by Charles C. Mann

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

• Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

• All About Love by bell hooks

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti

• Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

• The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland

• Retinitis pigmentosa (RP)

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

• Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal

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