This week on the show we are talking all things books with Tony nominated choreographer, Sam Pinkleton, best known for his work on the Broadway show, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Sam and Traci discuss using books as an entry point to new worlds, the mythology of the present, and a handful of their favorite true crime books.

Sam and Traci cover a lot of ground this week, and you can find everything they discuss here in the show notes.

BOOKS

A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Shrill by Lindy West
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
A Queer and Present Danger by Kate Bornstein
My American Journey by Colin Powell


Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
There are Things More Beautiful Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Free For All by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Blood Memory by Martha Graham
Collected Poems by James Merrill
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Outrage by Vincent Bugliosi
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Patti LuPone: A Memoir by Patti LuPone
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A People's History of The United States by Howard Zinn
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
D.V. by Diana Vreeland
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

EVERYTHING ELSE

Soft Power (Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson)
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (The Shubert Organization)
2017 Tony Nominations
"Whats the Right Age to Read a Book?" (Jennifer Finney Boylan, The New York Times)
Dave (Warner Brothers)
"Audible Creates $5 Million Fund for Emerging Playwrights" (Joshua Barone, The New York Times)
Harry Clarke (Audible)

"Audible Brings 'Girls & Boys' With Carey Mulligan to New York" (Peter Libbey, The New York Times)

The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX)
O.J.: Made In America (ESPN)
Fun Home (Circle in the Square)

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