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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