Ep. 127 Crushes and Controversy with Lupita Aquino

Our guest today is Lupita Aquino, the reader behind the successful bookstagram account Lupita Reads. Lupita is known for her incredible book recommendations and vibrant photos. Our conversation covers the evolving relationship between publishers and book influencers, activism in the book community, and the authors she finds crush-worthy.

The Stacks Book Club selection for September is The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. We will discuss the book with Lupita Aquino on September 30th.

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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 Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

• Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win by Jo Piazza

• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

• Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa

• James Baldwin

• The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero

• Dominicana by Angie Cruz

• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

• Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

• Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

• Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

• Real Life by Brandon Taylor

• Good Talk by Mira Jacob

• Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 

• Luster by Raven Leilani

• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

• Memorial by Bryan Washington

• Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza

• Intimations by Zadie Smith

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith

• Jason Reynolds

• Carmen Maria Machado

• Salman Rushdie

• Nicole Dennis-Benn

• Swing Time by Zadie Smith

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

• NW by Zadie Smith

• Feel Free by Zadie Smith

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

• #bookstagram

• Grey's Anatomy (ABC)

• "Ep. 23 Talk Women in Politics with Jo Piazza" (The Stacks)

• Karen @idleutopia_reads

• "Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake-Ass Social Justice Literature" (Myriam Gurba, Tropics of Meta)

• Marco Rubio

• Gisele Bündchen

• Lupita's Protest of American Dirt

• "Ep. 42 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie -- The Stacks Book Club (Tawny Newsome)" (The Stacks)

• "Ep. 105 The Union of Science and Art with Brandon Taylor" (The Stacks)

• Ask the Stacks

• Jaime @absorbedinpages

• Latino USA (NPR)

• Oscar @booksteahenny

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