Ep. 136 Dissecting with Cole Cuchna

Our guest today is the host of the smash hit music podcast Dissect, Cole Cuchna. Cole joins us to discuss all things Dissect; like how the show came to be, why he focuses on hip-hop albums, the show's incredible growth, and working with collaborators. Then we transition to a conversation on books and why Cole likes to read the complete works of some of literature's heavy hitters.

The Stacks Book Club selection for November is The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore. We will discuss the book with Cole Cuchna on November 25th.

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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

• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

• To The Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann

• American Prison by Shane Bauer

• Underground by Haruki Murakami

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

• Chronicles by Bob Dylan

• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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

• The Butterfly Effect by Marcus J. Moore

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Toni Morrison

• Ernest Hemingway

• Dashiell Hammett

• The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Irresistible by Adam Alter

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Underworld by Don Delillo

• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• Dissect (Spotify)

• Kendrick Lamar

• To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar, 2015)

• DAMN. (Kendrick Lamar, 2017)

• Dissect Season 1: To Pimp a Butterfly (Dissect, Spotify)

• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West, 2010)

• Dissect Season 2: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Dissect, Spotify)

• Kanye West

• Dissect Season 5: DAMN. (Dissect, Spotify)

• Femi Olutade

• Frank Ocean

• "Ep. 112 R. Eric Thomas//Here for It" (The Stacks)

• Power by Kanye West

• Dissect Season 6: Lemonade (Dissect, Spotify)

• Lemonade (Beyonce, 2017)

• Lemonade (Visual Album)

• Titi Shodiya

• Carpool Karaoke (The Late Late Show with James Corden, CBS)

• Drake

• Lauryn Hill

• Mini Series: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Dissect, Spotify)

• The Beatles

• Radiohead

• Ye (Kanye West, 2018)

• Freedom by Beyonce

• "Freedom by Beyonce" (Dissect, Spotify)

• Season 7: Because the Internet (Dissect, Spotify)

• Season 3: Frank Ocean (Dissect, Spotify)

• "The Short Stacks 25: Maurice Carlos Ruffin//We Cast a Shadow" (The Stacks)

• "American Hikers Leave Iran After Prison Release" (J. David Goodman and Alan Cowell, The New York Times)

• Mother Jones

• Bob Dylan

• Homeward Bound (Duwayne Dunham, 1993)

• Because the Internet (Childish Gambino, 2014)

• Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)

• Beers Books (Sacramento, CA)

• Barnes & Noble

• "Ep. 20 Between the World and Me -- The Stacks Book Club (Jay Conor)" (The Stacks)

• "Ep. The Autobiogaphy of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley -- The Stacks Book Club (Marc Lamont Hill)" (The Stacks)

• By the Book (The New York Times)

• Donald Glover

• New York University

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