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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