The Short Stacks 25: Maurice Carlos Ruffin//We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, and joins The Short Stacks to tell us about his process in writing this satirical, speculative fiction novel. We get to talk about what music fueled this novel, how his hometown of New Orleans figures into his work, and how he finds balance between being a writer and lawyer.
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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
"All of the Lights" (Kanye West, 2010)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Orange Couch (New Orleans, LA)
Rook Coffee (New Orleans, LA)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West, 2010)
Dissect (Cole Cuchna | Spotify)
Damn (Kendrick Lamar, 2017)
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Pym by Mat Johnson
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Black Card by Chris L. Terry
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Black No More by George S. Schuyler
Slave Play (Jeremy Harris, 2019)
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
"What are You Reading? with Ibram X. Kendi" (The Longreads Podcast, Longreads)
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