"Ghosted by Stevie Wonder" with Cord Jefferson

<p>This one’s a long-time-coming! We finally have our buddy, Cord Jefferson, on the pod. We know Cord from our NY days when he was at Gawker but you might know him from winning an Oscar for adapted screenplay for American Fiction, which he also directed and which was based on Perceival Everett’s Erasure. Cord also won an Emmy for writing that really good episode of The Watchmen about the Tulsa Massacre. We talk to him about possibly winning an E-G-O, desert noir, how much of a badass Perceival Everett is and much more. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Books and Authors Mentioned in this Episode:</em></p><p>Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</p><p>Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity</p><p>Dave Eggers - What is the What</p><p>Christina Rivera Garza - Death Takes Me</p><p>Allegra Goodman - Isola</p><p>Charlotte McConaghy - Wild Dark Shore</p><p>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count </p><p>Tory Peters - Stag Dance</p><p>Tory Peters - Detransition, Baby</p><p>Leila Lalami - Dream Hotel</p><p>Leila Lalami - The Other Americans</p><p>Percival Everett - Erasure</p><p>Alan Moore - Watchmen</p><p>Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven </p><p>Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident</p><p>Percival Everett - God’s Country</p><p>Percival Everett - James </p><p>Samantha Harvey - Orbital</p><p>Maxim Luskatoff - Old King </p><p>Lion Feuchtwanger - The Oppermanns</p><p>Sebastian Haffner - Defying Hitler</p><p>James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room</p><p>Philip Roth - The Human Stain </p><p>James McBride - The Good Lord Bird</p><p>Colson Whitehead - Nickel Boys</p><p>Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets </p><p>Isaac Asimov - Foundation</p><p>Ted Chiang - Exhalation</p><p>Kurt Vonnegut</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Cord: @cordjefferson</p><p>Follow Us: @youshouldprobablyreadmore</p><p><br></p>