"Ghosted by Stevie Wonder" with Cord Jefferson

About this episode

Cord Jefferson joins the podcast to discuss his Oscar-winning work, literature, and various authors.

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. Books and Authors Mentioned in this Episode: Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity Dave Eggers - What is the What Christina Rivera Garza - Death Takes Me Allegra Goodman - Isola Charlotte McConaghy - Wild Dark Shore Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count Tory Peters - Stag Dance Tory Peters - Detransition, Baby Leila Lalami - Dream Hotel Leila Lalami - The Other Americans Percival Everett - Erasure Alan Moore - Watchmen Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident Percival Everett - God’s Country Percival Everett - James Samantha Harvey - Orbital Maxim Luskatoff - Old…

People in this episode

Host: You Should Probably Read More

Guest: Cord Jefferson

Topics covered

• Oscar-winning screenwriter
• desert noir
• literature
• writing
• adaptation
• Tulsa Massacre
• book recommendations

Keywords

• Cord Jefferson
• Oscar
• American Fiction
• Perceival Everett
• book recommendations
• Tulsa Massacre
• writing

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