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

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  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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