Unabridged: A Conversation Between Friends with Jason Reynolds and Hanif Abdurraqib

In this bonus episode, we’re heading down south to Jackson, Mississippi to join friends of the pod, Jason Reynolds and Hanif Abdurraqib, at the Mississippi Book Festival! Together, we celebrate each other's work, fight over the greatest band of all time, and then debate the state of music and literary criticism.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

Twenty Four Seconds from Now… by Jason Reynolds

• Coach by Jason Reynolds

• Ghost by Jason Reynolds

• Lu by Jason Reynolds

• Patina by Jason Reynolds

• Sunny by Jason Reynolds

• There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

• A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib

• Michael Jordan

• Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

• Carl Lewis

• A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

• Stags Leap by Sharon Olds

• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

• The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

• As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds

• Maya Millet

• Random House

• Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib

• The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)

• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

• Ross Gay

• “Gimme Shelter” (The Rolling Stones, 1969)

• Whitney Houston

• “My Girl” (The Temptations, 1965)

• Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

• The Isley Brothers

• Earth, Wind & Fire

• Ohio Players

• Stevie Wonder

• “So What the Fuss” (Stevie Wonder, 2005)

• Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder

• “Jungle Fever” (Stevie Wonder, 2005)

• Prince

• Lovesexy by Prince

• Harvest for the World by The Isley Brothers

• The Emancipation of Mimi by Mariah Carey

• Butterfly by Mariah Carey

• To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

• DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar

• LeBron James

• Stephen Curry

• Andre Iguodala

• Kalefa Sanneh reel on music criticism (New Yorker Magazine Instagram)

• “How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge” (Kalefa Sanneh, The New Yorker)

• Lester Bangs

• “Astral Weeks” (Lester Bangs, Stranded)

• Van Morrison

• “Chance the Rapper Got MTV News to Remove a Critical Concert Review” (Jackson McHenry, Vulture)

• Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper

• Taylor Swift

• Ben Brantley

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• “20 Years Later: Little Brother, ‘The Minstrel Show’” (Hanif Abdurraqib, Longreads)

• Drake

• “Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds” (Maggie Astor, The New York Times)

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• The White Lotus (HBO)

• Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants by Stevie Wonder

• They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network)

• Guy Fieri

• Aracelis Girmay

• Soul Train (WCIU-TV)

• Rhythm Nation World Tour 1990

• Daydream World Tour

• Selena

• “Phyllis Hyman: This Lady's Got Star Karma” (David Nathan, Blues & Soul)

• Tales from the Hood (Rusty Cundieff, 1995)

• Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

• Waiting to Exhale (Forest Whitaker, 1995)

• Loewe (clothing brand)

• “There Are More Ways to Show Devotion” (Excerpt from I’m Always Looking Up and You’re Jumping by Hanif Abdurraqib, Harper’s Magazine)

• “Brave Faces, Everyone” by Spanish Love Songs

• Nina Simone

  
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