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.
Books
- 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
Everything Else
- 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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