Our guest this week is journalist Heather John Fogarty, whose work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire Magazine, Playboy, and more. Heather previously worked as the wine and spirits editor at Bon Appétit. In today's conversation we talk about Heather's James Beard vote, how finding a editor for a novel is like dating, and a book that made both of us very angry. Get ready, Heather is a prolific reader, your TBR will never be the same.

You can find everything we talk about this week in the show notes below. By shopping through the links you help support The Stacks, at no cost to you. Shop on Amazon and iTunes.

BOOKS

Mozza at Home by Nancy Silverton and Carolynn Carreno

There There by Tommy Orange

The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

 The Milkman by Anna Burns

The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist

The Stranger Game by Peter Gadol

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonia Vargas

Fight No More by Lydia Millet

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Octavia E. Butler

Ray Bradbury

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú

To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

The Amazing Bone by William Steig

Who Was Babe Ruth? by Joan Holub

Who is Michelle Obama? by Megan Stine

Ninjago Books

Another Country by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Joan Didion

Dana Johnson

Paul Beatty

Philip Roth

Virginia Woolf

Lucia Berlin

Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

In the Not Quiet Dark by Dana Johnson

Jaws by Peter Benchley

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Locking Up Our Own by James Foreman Jr.

Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Hey Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose

EVERYTHING ELSE

Chi Spacca

Mozza

Nancy Silverton

Carolynn Carreño

Bon Appétit

Vogue

Vanity Fair

Harper's Bazaar

James Beard Foundation Awards

Gwen

Langer's Deli

National Book Award Finalists

Man Booker Prize Shortlist

Flywheel Sports

Daniel Pearl

Chevalier's Books

Jaws (Universal Pictures)

The Godfather Trilogy (Paramount Pictures)

Nancy Rommelman

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