Ep. 87 Finding a Seat at the Table with Ayser Salman

Today we welcome Ayser Salman to The Stacks. Ayser is the author of The Wrong End of the Table a comedic memoir about her experiences as a Muslim Arab American woman just trying to fit in. We talk about finding your political voice, the privilege of passing, and if we've ever felt truly seen in a book.

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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.

• The Wrong End of the Table by Ayser Salman

• James Frey

• Valeria Luiselli

• Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

• The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentio

• Malcolm Gladwell

• What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

• Talking to Stranger by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde

• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

• Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli

• The Color of Love by Marra B. Gad

• Pure Drivel by Steve Martin

• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Matilda by Roald Dahl

• Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

• Let's Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

• The Silver Lining Playbook by Matthew Quick

• The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

• Game Thrones by George R. R. Martin

• Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth

• The Weinstein Company

• Pose (FX)

• Miramax

• Ted Bundy

• Cesar Millan

• Revisionist History (Pushkin Industries)

• "Telling the Story of the Stanford Rape Case" (Marina Koren, The Atlantic)

• "The Sandra Bland Video: What We Know" (Adeel Hassan, The New York Times)

• "Everyone Believed Larry Nassar" (Kerry Howley, The Cut)

• Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater, 2019)

• Cate Blanchett

• Woody Allen

• Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

• #Bookstagram

• Hugh Laurie

• Funny Girl (William Wyler and Herbert Ross, 1968)

• My Fair Lady (George Cukor, 1964)

• Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)

• Bradley Cooper

• David O. Russell

• The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)

• Anne Hathaway

• Meryl Streep

• Game of Thrones -- Season 2 (HBO)

• BlackKklansman (Spike Lee, 2018)

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