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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