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