Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is a New York Times best selling author and a National Book Award finalist. He writes novels and poetry for young people, and they'll all tell you Jason just "gets it". We sit down with Jason to discuss his new book Look Both Ways, how his love of music led to a career as an author, and what book he would assign in high school.

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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.

• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

• Ghost by Jason Reynolds

• When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

• Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

• Langston Hughes

• Maya Angelou

• William Shakespeare

• William Faulkner

• Roald Dahl

• My Name is Jason. Mine Too. by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin

• Walter Deen Myers

• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

• The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers

• Alice Walker

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Educated by Tara Westover

• The Island Sea Women by Lisa See

• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Sanders

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

• Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham

• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• W. E. B. DuBois

• Angela Davis

• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

• Olga Tokarczuk

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

• Ali Smith

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon

• Long Division by Kiese Laymon

• The Early Simple Stories by Langston Hughes

• At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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

• Malcolm X by Manning Marable

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

• Cane by Jean Toomer

• Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

• Honey, I Love and Other Poems by Eloise Greenfield

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Where Do We Go From Here by Martin Luther King Jr.

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Black Reign by Queen Latifah

• Nina Simone

• Sister Rosetta Tharpe

• Lauryn Hill

• Aretha Franklin

• Living Single (FOX)

• Friends (NBC)

• Oprah Winfrey

• 2Pac

• Slick Rick

• Aaron McGruder

• The Boondocks (Cartoon Network)

• 227 (NBC)

• Harry S. Truman

• Cotton Mather

• Thomas Jefferson

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Lisa Lucas

• Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)

• Planet of the Apes (Franklin Schaffner, 1968)

• LeVar Burton

• Shameik Moore

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, 2018)

• Dope (Rick Famuyiwa, 2015)

• RJ Cyler

• Me Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015)

• "Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)" (The Stacks)

• Hamilton (2015)

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