Ep. 370 Between Oprah and Obama with Kara Brown
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Stacks, we’re talking with screenwriter and producer, Kara Brown. She shares what she looks for when adapting a book to the screen, and the key to making sure an adaptation is a success. We also discuss Kara’s love of massive tomes, the three writers that inspired her career, and her problematic fave.
The Stacks Book Club pick for May is Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. We will discuss on Wednesday, April 30 with Kara Brown returning as our guest.
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| 0:00.0 | the medium in which someone chooses to create something is important. And sometimes a play is not a good |
| 0:07.5 | movie. Sometimes it is, but sometimes a book is not a good TV show or whatever. Um, you know, |
| 0:12.9 | to me, the example I always think of is the Great Gatsby, which on the page, stunning. Like, |
| 0:18.5 | like the prose is, is amazing. That story is not a good story. That's why, |
| 0:24.6 | that's why it's not very good when you adapt it. And I actually think, not always, but oftentimes, |
| 0:30.5 | I think for me, I think kind of the quote unquote worse the book is, the more interested I am in |
| 0:37.2 | adapting it. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am beyond thrilled to welcome to the podcast, Kara |
| 0:53.3 | Brown. |
| 0:56.5 | Kara is a writer and producer. You might have seen her work on She Hulk, The Other Black Girl, or Grownish. And today, Kara and I talk about |
| 1:02.1 | how she became a hardcore reader, what she looks for when adapting books to screen, and the |
| 1:07.8 | book she was assigned three times in school, but still deeply hates. |
| 1:12.1 | Don't forget our book club pick for May is Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. |
| 1:16.9 | Kara Brown will be back to discuss that book with me on Wednesday, May 28th, so be sure to |
| 1:21.7 | read along and tune in. |
| 1:23.6 | Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the Stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. |
| 1:29.0 | And if you love this podcast, if you want inside access to it, if you want perks like bonus episodes, or even more hot takes for me, you can support the show by going to patreon.com slash the stacks and joining the stacks pack or subscribe to my newsletter at tracythomas.substack.com. |
| 1:45.1 | All right. |
| 1:45.7 | Now it is time for my conversation with Kara Brown. |
| 1:54.7 | Okay, party people. |
| 1:56.4 | I'm so excited. |
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