This one’s a long-time-coming! We finally have our buddy, Cord Jefferson, on the pod. We know Cord from our NY days when he was at Gawker but you might know him from winning an Oscar for adapted screenplay for American Fiction, which he also directed and which was based on Perceival Everett’s Erasure. Cord also won an Emmy for writing that really good episode of The Watchmen about the Tulsa Massacre. We talk to him about possibly winning an E-G-O, desert noir, how much of a badass Perceival Everett is and much more. 

Books and Authors Mentioned in this Episode:

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity

Dave Eggers - What is the What

Christina Rivera Garza - Death Takes Me

Allegra Goodman - Isola

Charlotte McConaghy - Wild Dark Shore

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count 

Tory Peters - Stag Dance

Tory Peters - Detransition, Baby

Leila Lalami - Dream Hotel

Leila Lalami - The Other Americans

Percival Everett - Erasure

Alan Moore - Watchmen

Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven 

Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident

Percival Everett - God’s Country

Percival Everett - James 

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

Maxim Luskatoff - Old King 

Lion Feuchtwanger - The Oppermanns

Sebastian Haffner - Defying Hitler

James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room

Philip Roth - The Human Stain 

James McBride - The Good Lord Bird

Colson Whitehead - Nickel Boys

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets 

Isaac Asimov - Foundation

Ted Chiang - Exhalation

Kurt Vonnegut

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