You Should Probably Read More

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 GeniusDave Eggers - You Shall Know Our VelocityDave Eggers - What is the WhatChristina Rivera Garza - Death Takes MeAllegra Goodman - IsolaCharlotte McConaghy - Wild Dark ShoreChimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count Tory Peters - Stag DanceTory Peters - Detransition, BabyLeila Lalami - Dream HotelLeila Lalami - The Other AmericansPercival Everett - ErasureAlan Moore - WatchmenEmily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow IncidentPercival Everett - God's CountryPercival Everett - James Samantha Harvey - OrbitalMaxim Luskatoff - Old King Lion Feuchtwanger - The OppermannsSebastian Haffner - Defying HitlerJames Baldwin - Giovanni's RoomPhilip Roth - The Human Stain James McBride - The Good Lord BirdColson Whitehead - Nickel BoysRobert Jones Jr - The Prophets Isaac Asimov - FoundationTed Chiang - ExhalationKurt VonnegutFollow Cord: @cordjeffersonFollow Us: @youshouldprobablyreadmore

We did it. We got our new favorite Crime Daddy on the pod.Jordan Harper joins us to talk LA, Punks vs Nazis, the Ozarks and Noir. We love him. RIP to Nolan's cat Edie & Jordan's dog Ellroy Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:Bel Canto - Ann Patchett The Vegetarian - Han Kang We Do Not Part - Han KangThe Last King of California  - Jordan Harper Everything Must Go: Stories We Tell Ourselves About the End of the World - Dorian Lynskey Gliff - Ali SmithWitchcraft For Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix My Best Friend's Exorcism - Grady HendrixThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady HendrixThe obscene bird of night - José DonosoOur Share of Night - Mariana EnriquezPlayworld - Adam RossOnyx Storm - Rebecca YarrosThe Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA - Jesse KatzHarriet The Spy - Louise FitzhughThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark TwainThe Great Brain (Series) - John Dennis FitzgeraldStephen King Hunter S Thompson The Drifters - James A. Michener LA Confidential - James EllroyCormac McCarthyRed Riding (Series) - David PeaceS.A. CosbyDare Me - Megan AbbottBeware the Woman - Megan Abbott The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig ClevengerEverybody Knows - Jordan HarperDavid SedarisJames BaldwinMary ShelleyFollow Jordan online at @jordan_harper_Yoand follow us @youshouldprobablyreadmore

When we say Best of the Year we mean the WHOLE damn year (we need all the time we can get to read all the books from all the other lists!) so here it is, in mid-January, our Best of 2024 roundup. We're joined by a very special guest, our friend and fellow bookclub member, Addison Kirst, owner of des pair books in Echo Park, Los Angeles.  Books and Authors mentioned in this Episode: Sally Rooney - Intermezzo Percival Everett - James  Miranda July - All Fours  Richard Flanagan - Question 7 Yael vanderwooten - The Safe Keep Trisha Romano - The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture Dolly Atherton - Good Material Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma  Robert Plunket - Love junkie Louis Ferdinand Celine - War   Elizabeth Beller - Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Kaveh Akbar - Martyr!  Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake Garth Greenwell - Small rain Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn William Faulkner   Louis Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night H.G. Wells Rebecca West Anton Chekhov Richard Flanagan - Death of a River Guide  Rick Rubin - The Creative Act: A Way of Being Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black Sofia Coppola - Archive Simone de Beauvoir - The Woman Destroyed   Otessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World  James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room  Eve Babitz - Sex and Rage   Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses  Bram Stoker - Dracula  Mary Shelley - Frankenstein  Salman Rushdie - Knife - Elif Shafak - There are Rivers in the Sky   Liz Moore - God of the Woods  Martin MacInnes - In Ascension Charles Burns - Final Cut Danzy Senna - Color Television Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection Jordan Harper - Last King of California  Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity  Magda Szabo Stacy Horn - Killing fields of East New York Nicholas Carr - Superbloom  Karen Russell - The Antidote  Sarah Silgar - Vantage Point   Ali Smith - Gliff Emma pattee - Tilt  Han Kang - We Do Not Part  Florence Knapp - The Names  Joyce Carol Oates - Fox / Butcher Rebecca Yarros - Onyx Storm Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count S A Cosby - King of Ashes Jon Savage -  The Secret Public Samantha Harvey - Orbital Got something to say? Hit us up at @youshouldprobablyreadmore Buy your books from @despairbooks www.despairbooks.com

It's our One Year Anniversary! Thank you all for listening to our lil pod this past year and for your comments and engagement with it. It's been really fun talking (and shit-talking) books and we're excited to continue this into next year- starting with our "Best of 24" list in January (you know we take every day we can get to try to get through all of these!).  This episode is just Shanon and Nolan- discussing the books we're reading, Luigi, Cormac & other book news plus a hot new crime author daddy we're obsessed with.  Books and Authors mentioned in this episode: Mariana Enriquez - Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place for Shady People  Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter  Jason de Leon - Soldiers and Kings  Jordan Harper - Last King of California  Jordan Harper - She Rides Shotgun Jordan Harper - Everybody Knows  Dr. Seuss - The Lorax 100 Years War on Palestine  Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Glenn Beck - A Christmas Sweater

Welp...we recorded this one before the election. But don't worry we cut out all the hopeful parts! (booklist coming asap)

This one's a doozy! Shanon and Nolan discuss Rachel Kushner, Sally Rooney and Miranda July (All Fours lovers beware, Shanon goes on a tirade against Miranda July's new novel and Nolan just doesn't like her. Don't hate us!) before being joined by critically acclaimed author and New York Mag feature writer, the wonderful Kerry Howley.  Books and Authors mentioned in the episode:  Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake Rachel Kushner - Mars Room Sally Rooney - Intermezzo Garth Greenwell - Small Rain Danzy Senna - Colored Television  Connie Chung - Connie Ta'Nehisi Coates - The Message Louise Erdrich - The Mighty Red Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place For Shady People Garth Green-well - Small Rain Garth Greenwell - Cleanness Joan Didion Richard Rodriguez Rachel Yoder - Night Bitch Sarah Viren - Mine Somerset Maugham - A Razor's Edge Edith Wharton - The Buccaneers  Sabine Hossenfelder - Existential Physics Christian Wiman - Zero At The Bone Herman Melville - Moby Dick Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire Michael Clune - White Out Monica Furlong - Wise Child  Sharon Creesh - Love That Dog Sara Pennypacker - Pax Follow Kerry: https://x.com/KerryHowley https://www.kerryhowley.com/

Shanon and Nolan are joined by Traci Thomas, creator and host of The Stacks, a podcast on books and reading that is far superior to our own! Per the episode title shit talking ensues. But it's good! Books and Authors mentioned in the episode: Katherine Dunn - Geek Love Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven Ann Patchett - Bel Canto Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Demon Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Human Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Laci Mosley - Scam Goddess Adania Shibli - Minor Detail Salman Rushdie - Knife Samantha Irby Elizabeth Flock - The Fluries Jamie Loftess - Raw Dog Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Isabelle Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns Kiese Layman - Heavy E. B. White - Charlotte's Web Tolkien - Lord of the Rings Anna Sewell - Black Beauty Chris Herring - Blood in the Garden Keith O'Brian - Charlie Hustle Tommy Orange - There There Louise Erdrich Sherman Alexie Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake Colson Whitehead - Nickel Boys Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl Jonathan Safran Foer Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird Percival Everett - James Liz Moore - The God of the Woods Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Shanon and Nolan discuss (with little to no preparation) the 100 Best Books of The 21st Century as chosen by the NYT Book Review. Books Mentioned in this Episode: Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend Robert Caro - The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power Ann Patchett - Bel Canto Ann Patchett - The Dutch House Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease To Understand the World NK Jeminsin - The Fifth Season Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Hernan Diaz - Trust Hernan Diaz - In The Distance Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Anthony Doerr - All The Light We Cannot See Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow  Charles Burns - Black Hole David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah  Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay Min Jin Lee - Pachinko  Tara Westover - Educated Roberto Bolaño - 2666 George Saunders - Lincoln In The Bardo Isabelle Wilkerson - Warmth of Other Suns Isabelle Wilkerson - Caste Matthew Desmond - Evicted Hillary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Shanon and Nolan are joined by Ceremony frontman, poet, Bay Area legend and very well read dude, Ross Farrar.  Books and Authors mentioned in the episode:  Liz Moore - The God of the Woods AJ Dunno - In Waves Alexander Sammartino - Last Acts George Saunders Delmore Shwartz Fredrick Seidel Jenny Offill - Dept of Speculation Jenny Offill - Speedboat James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time William Matthews - Time and Money John Berryman - The Dream Songs Terrance Hayes Morgan Parker Sigrid Nunez - The Friend David Hawkins - Power vs. Force David Hawkins - Letting Go David Hawkins - Transcending the Levels of Consciousness Geoff Rickly - Someone Who Isn't Me JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey American Short Story Masterpieces - Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!

Shanon and Nolan are joined by Toronto-based writer, journalist and basketball enthusiast, Katie Heindl. We're talkin' books that make us cry, fantasy favorites, and why sports writing needs a makeover. Books and Authors mentioned in this episode: Amor Towles - Dinner For Two Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards David Grann - The Wager Elizabeth O'Connor - Whale Fall Jhumpa Lahiri - Roman Stories Alice Munro  Ann Patchett - Tom Lake Ann Patchett - Commonwealth Any Patchett - The Red House Annie Proulx - Barkskins Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend André Aciman - Call Me By Your Name Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain Mariam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing George RR Martin - Game of Thrones Ursula K Le Guin John Jeremiah Sullivan - Pulphead Louisa Thomas Sam Smith - Jordan Rules Shea Serrano - Basketball (and Other Things) Richard Adams - Watership Down JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings Samantha Shannon - Priory of the Orange Tree Tamora Pierce - Alanna: The First Adventure Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon Jack Kerouac - On The Road Charles Bukowski William S Burroughs Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel Chris Bosh - Letters to a Young Athlete Kent Karuf - Plainsong Jane Smiley David James Duncan  Stacey Abrams Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet  * Find Katie online @wtevs (X) + @basketball.feelings (IG) For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!

Shanon and Nolan are joined by writer, actor, director, comedian, and LGBTQ activist Ryan O'Connell. We talk shit about books we don't like and then talk shit about how no one talks shit about books they don't like any more; plus why “Andy Cohen's Diaries” is Ryan's “A Little Life.” Books mentioned in this episode: Liu Cixin - Three Body Problem David Benioff - City of Thieves David Benioff - 25th Hour Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz Téa Obreht - The Morningside Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars Percival Everett - James Patrick Rothfuss - Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fears Ryan O'Connell - I'm Special: and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves Ryan O'Connell - Just By Looking At Him Alexandra Tanner - Worry Leslie Jamison - Splinters Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening R. F. Kuang - Yellowface Jean Hanff Korelitz - The Plot Lauren Oyler - No Judgement Laurie Moore - Self-Help Andy Cohen - The Andy Cohen Diaries Rebecca Makai - The Great Believers Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre * Find Ryan online @ryanoconn For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!

On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan can't wait to spoil Dune 2 for you (jk). After that we're joined by author, poet, musician and Bay Area icon Brontez Purnell to discuss his new memoir in verse, “Ten Bridges I've Burnt,” and why M.I.A is a colonizer. Frank Herbert - Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune Carl Sagan - Cosmos Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz Sven Holm - Termush Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I've Burnt Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk Bernadette Mayers Peggy Parish, Herman Parish - Amelia Bedelia  Justin Torres - Blackouts  * Find Brontez online @brontezpurnell For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!

Shanon and Nolan are joined by pro skater Kevin “Spanky” Long and artist Nikolai "Niki" Haas. Together, these Sensitive Bros™ are part of a dad's book club where they read feminist tomes (among other things). Try not to swoon as we talk about feelings and what makes Agatha Christie marriage material. Books Mentioned in this Episode: Hernan Diaz - Trust Alice Walker - The Color Purple Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening Sarah J Maas - The House of Flame and Shadow The Odyssey - Emily Wilson Translation bell hooks - The Will to Change Sam Harris - Free Will Emma Cline - The Guest Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age Neal Stephenson - Seveneves Donna Tart - Secret History Donna Tart - The Goldfinch Donna Tart - The Little Friend Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye James Jones - The Thin Red Line Find Spanky and Nikolai online at @kevinspankylong & @nikolaihaas @thehaasbrothers For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!

It's a one on one episode in which Shanon & Nolan discuss their favorite books of 2023 (mostly murder, dystopian prisons and heartfelt stories) and what they're looking forward to in 2024 (mostly murder, stabbings, dystopian climate change, and even some basketball). 2023 James McBride - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Daniel Mason - North Woods SA Cosby - All The Sinners Bleed Justin Torres - Blackouts Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-Gang All-Stars Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger Kerry Howley - Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Héctor Tobar - Migrant Souls Britney Spears - The Woman In Me Rachel Maddow - Prequel 2024 Salman Rushdie - Knife Amor Towles - Table for Two Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year Percival Everett - Jim Téa Obreht - The Morningside Richard Powers - Playground For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!

On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan are joined by Tracie Egan Morrissey (@traciemorrissey) noted beautiful person, internet sleuth, author, and co-host of Pot Psychology for some celebrity memoir banter, spank bank moments, and a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill. Books Mentioned in this Episode: Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See Justin Torres - Blackouts David Grann - The Wager Naomi Alderman - The Future Rebecca Yarros - Iron Flame Tracie Egan Morrissey and Rich Juzwiak - Pot Psychology's How to Be: Lowbrow Advice from High People Mariah Carey - The Meaning of Mariah Carey Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird VC Andrews Brett Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs Lisa Taddeo - Animal Lisa Taddeo - Three women Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain Miles Davis - The Autobiography Alan Moore - From Hell Jeff Smith - Bone Brian K Vaughan - Y: The Last Man Brian K Vaughan - Paper Girls Frank Miller - Batman: Year One Alan Moore - Watchmen Jim Starlin - The Infinity War Katherine Dunn - Geek Love Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life As mentioned in the episode, listeners can get 15% off products in Tracie's store pipedreams.fun with code Reading Find Tracie at @traciemorrissey and at @potpsychology & listen to the podcast Pot Psychology For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!

Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best. On this inaugural episode they're joined by Caroline Goldfarb @officialseanpenn noted library card holder and avid kindle reader for some Beauty and the Beast banter and a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill. Welcome to You Should Probably Read More! Books mentioned in this episode: Cormac McCarthy - Suttree Alexander Dumas - Three Musketeers Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac Pema Chödrön - How We Live Is How We Die Sam Knight - Premonitions Bureau Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger David Grann - The Squid Hunger (New Yorker, 2004) John Ronson - Lost at Sea Emma Clint - The Guest Marisa Meltzer - Glossy  William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights Alice Robb - Don't Think, Dear  Adam Chandler - Drive-Through Dreams  Jen Beagin - Big Swiss Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness Williams Faulkner - Light in August  J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore  Or email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com Shanon: @shaaaanoooon Nolan: @nolanbellavance  This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song'd by John McSwain @vacationsonline  YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!