This week I am joined by TV writer and actor, Chris Maddox. Reading is a huge part of Chris' professional life, and creative habit. Chris shares the kind of stories that excite him when he's looking to write new TV shows and books that have helped shape him as a writer.

We get to know Chris this week, before The Stacks Book Club conversation about James Baldwin's classic, Giovanni's Room.

Here is all the stuff we discussed this week.
BOOKS

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Turning the Mind into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham
Mystery in Harare by M.J. Simms-Maddox

Ship of Theseus by J.J. Abrams

The Early Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Bluesman by Andre Dubus III
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
Townie by Andre Dubus III
August Wilson Century Play Cycle
The Bible
Night by Elie Wiesel
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Predictably Irrational by Dr. Dan Ariely

EVERYTHING ELSE

Lost (ABC)
Call Me By Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics)
Scandal (ABC, S7. E12)
Kerry Washington
Gigli (Colombia Pictures)
Glitter (20th Century Fox)
J.J. Abrams
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Vince Gilligan
Andre Dubus III
Elizabeth Strout
Roots (ABC)

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