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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