The Short Stacks 27: Shea Serrano//Movies (and Other Things)

Shea Serrano is a three-time New York Times best selling author, whose most recent book Movies (and Other Things) is a collection of illustrated essays answering all the questions you didn't know you needed answered when it comes to movies...and other things. We talk about Shea's unconventional start as a writer, what his kids think of his work, and what its like working with illustrator Arturo Torres.

There are no spoilers in this episode.

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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.

• Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres

• Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres

• The Rap Yearbook by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres

• Bun B's Rapper Coloring and Activity Book by Shea Serrano

• A League of their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992) 

• Major League (David S. Ward, 1989)

• The Sandlot (David Mickey Evans, 1993)

• Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)

• Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

• Barnes & Noble

• Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019)

• Can't Hardly Wait by (Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, 1998)

• The Breakfast Club (John Huges, 1985)

• Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)

• "‘Conference Room, Five Minutes’ Is Shea Serrano’s Love Letter to ‘The Office’" (Nic Dobija-Nootens, The Millions

• Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)

• Jodie Foster

• The New York Times Best Sellers List

• Halle Berry

• Sandra Cisneros

• Luis Alberto Urrea

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

• The Ringer

• Bill Simmons

• Shea Serrano at The Ringer

• Diane Keaton

• Liv Tyler

• Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)

• Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001)

• Empire Record (Allan Moyle, 1995)

• The Strangers (Bryan Bertino, 2008)

• Inventing the Abbotts (Pat O'Connor, 1997)

• That Thing You Do (Tom Hanks, 1996)

• Chuck Klosterman

• The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

• "Here Are Barack Obama's Favorite Books and Music of 2017" (Jamie Ducharme, Time)

• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

• Missy Elliott

• Michelle Rodriguez

• The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen, 2001)

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