Ep. 132 Coffee & Books with Marc Lamont Hill

Our guest today is Marc Lamont Hill. Marc is a modern day renaissance man. He is an author (Nobody, We Still Here), professor, owner of Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books, and the host of the new podcast Coffee & Books. Marc joins us today to discuss his passion for reading, Black death as a form of entertainment, and what readers should know about selling books.

The Stacks Book Club selection for October is The Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex Haley. We will discuss the book with Marc Lamont Hill on October 28th.

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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

• Nobody by Marc Lamont Hill

• We Still Here by Marc Lamont Hill

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

• Dick and Jane by William S. Gray

• The Outsiders by. S. E. Hinton

• Are You There God? Its Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier

• Danielle Steel

• Jabari Asim

• belle hooks

• Jason Reynolds

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Except for Palestine by Marc Lamont Hill

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Mountain Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

• New People by Danzy Senna

• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

• The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper

• Breathe by Imani Perry

• The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch

• The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto

• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

• Samantha Irby

• Remembered Rapture by belle hooks

• The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray 

• Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

• James Baldwin

• Rage by Bob Woodward

• All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

• JFK by Fredrik Logevall 

• Wicked Flesh by Jessica Marie Johnson

• Stakes is High by Mychal Denzel Smith

• Traces of Racial Exception by Ronit Lentin

• Brother Ray by Ray Charles and David Ritz

• Luther by Craig Seymour

• Respect by David Ritz

• Aretha by Aretha Franklin with David Ritz

• W. E. B. Du Bois by David Levering Lewis

• José Saramago

• Junot Díaz

• Octavia E. Butler

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) by American Psychiatric Association

• Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books (Philadelphia, PA)

• Coffee and Books (Embassy Row)

• Temple University

• The Marshall Plan

• The G. I. Bill

• Jet Magazine

• Ebony Magazine

• Hakim's Bookstore

• Dawud Hakim

• Haymarket Books

• Frank Barat

• "White Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park" (Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times)

• "CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill in wake of remarks criticizing Israel and calling for a ‘free Palestine’" (Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post)

• "Disgraced comedian Louis CK is going on a world tour — so much for cancel culture" (Daniel Bukszpan, CNBC)

• "Ep. 118 Living the Revision with Kiese Laymon" (The Stacks)

• "Ep. 122 Breathe by Imani Perry -- The Stacks Book Club (Kiese Laymon)" (The Stacks)

• Love Jones (Theodore Witcher, 1997)

• Jay-Z

• "Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Talks "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own"" (Coffee & Books, Embassy Row)

• "Marc Lamont Hill on Voting Green, Not Being Afraid of Trump: 'We Can Afford to Lose an Election; We Can't Afford to Lose Our Values'" (Kirsten West Savali, The Root)

• Luther Vandross

• "David Ritz Discusses His Impressive Ghostwriting" (Coffee & Books, Embassy Row)

• The New York Times Best Seller List

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