The Short Stacks 12: Damon Young//What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

On today's episode of The Short Stacks our guest is Damon Young. Damon is the co-founder of Very Smart Brothas, a senior editor at The Root, and the author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays. We talk today about the anxieties of releasing a memoir into the world, public apologies, and getting blurbs from people you admire. Have no fear, there are no spoilers today.

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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

• What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young

• PodcastOne App

• Patreon

• Ask the Stacks

• Audible Trial

• Very Smart Brothas

• Slate

• The Atlantic

• The New Yorker

• The Root

• Jezebel

• Deadspin

• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

• Meaty by Samantha Irby

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

• Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

• Magical Negro by Morgan Parker

• Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

• Rebecca Carroll

• Antiracist Book Festival

• Ibram X. Kendi

• Damon Young & Kiese Laymon: The "Good Dude" Closet (Death, Sex, and Money, WNYC Studios)

• Brittney Cooper

• Rebecca Traister

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