Ep 59 Chasing Perfection with DaMaris B. Hill

DaMaris B. Hill is an author and scholar, and her latest book, A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing, is a collection of poetry dealing with the incarceration of Black women. Today on The Stacks she talks with us about how she came to be a writer, her perfectionist spirit, and the books that have inspired her along the way.

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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

• A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Alice Dunbar Nelson

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Ruth Nicole Brown

• Dr. Chamara Kwakye

• Chris Abani

• Franz Kafka

• Jesse Byrd

• Colored Amazons by Kali N. Gross

• Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim

• Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

• Nalo Hopkinson

• Patricia Powell

• The Pagoda by Patricia Powell

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• The Bible

• The Book of Light by Lucille Clifton

• Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

• Toni Cade Bambara

• Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

• Starlight & Error by Remica Bingham-Risher

• I Was a Revolutionary by Andrew Malan Milward

• Bessie's Resurrection by Kimberly Collins

• The Apology by Eve Ensler

• Reclaiming Our Space by Feminista Jones

• Gabriel García Márquez

• Toni Morrison

• James Baldwin

• Sherman Alexie

• Song for Night by Chris Abani

• Gabrielle Civil

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

• Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

• The World is Round by Nikky Finney

• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

• Sarah Ahmed

• Strange Encounters by Sarah Ahmed

• Angela Y. Davis

• Odyssey by Homer

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

• Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

• Carol Anderson

• Nell Painter

• Old in Art School by Nell Painter

• Black Lives Matter

• Copper Canyon

• Crab Orchard Review

• The Short Stacks 2: Jesse Byrd//Real Jungle Tales

• Ask the Stacks

• The Short Stacks 1: Crystal Hana Kim//If You Leave Me

• Ep. 55 The Art of Performance with Gabrielle Civil

• Ep. 56 Wild Beauty by Ntozake Shange — The Stacks Book Club (Gabrielle Civil)

• The Wild Fig Bookstore (Lexington, KY)

• Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC)

• Strand (New York City)

• Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, MD)

• Bloomsbury Publishing

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