Its time for another episode of The Stacks. Today our guest is actor (Insecure, Snowfall), director (French Dirty), and writer (Grown-ish) Wade Allain-Marcus. We talk about how TV shows are written, white savior narratives, and connecting with the emotional truth of a story. Plus, we're joined by Wade's chatty dog Tika.



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Books



Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman BirdwellThe Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert LawsonThe Art of the Heist by Myles J. Connor and Jenny SilerDanzy SennaNew People by Danzy SennaA Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCidade de Deus (City of God) by Paulo Lins Giovanni's Room by James BaldwinJames BaldwinShantaram by Gregory David RobertsRoots by Alex Haley







Another Country by James BaldwinA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaGo Tell It On The Mountain by James BaldwinIf Beale Street Could Talk by James BaldwinTa-Nehisi CoatesJust Kids by Patti SmithMartin McDonaghThe Pillowman by Martin McDonaghFriday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex HaleyThe Executioner's Song by Norman MailerWilliam ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareTitus Andronicus by William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 by William ShakespeareHenry V by William ShakespeareJulius Caeser by William ShakespeareGrapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBeloved by Toni MorrisonTwilight by Stephanie Meyer50 Shades of Grey by E. L. James The Giver by Lois LowryInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonColor of Water by James McBrideHeavy by Kiese Laymon



Everything Else



Insecure (HBO)Snowfall (FX)Grown-ish (ABC)French Dirty (Jesse and Wade Allain-Marcus, 2015) City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund, 2002)Yara ShahidiEp. 6 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin -- The Stacks Book Club (Chris Maddox) (The Stacks)The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock, 2009)The Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018)Mahershala AliThe Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)Viggo MortensenDriving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, 1989)Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005)Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, 2018)Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018)Johannes VermeerRembrandt van RijnEp. 7 Talking Books with Sam Pinkleton (The Stacks)Robert MapplethorpePaul Thomas AndersonBarry JenkinsThe Cohen BrothersShonda Rhimes



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