Today on The Stacks Book Club we are discussing Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir The Light of the World about the unexpected death of her husband and the life they built together. We are joined by Dani McClain author of We Live for the We to discuss this beautiful examination of a life well lived.
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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.
- The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
- We Live for the We by Dani McClain
- 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalists
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Blue Nights by Joan Didion
- The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play (2007)
- Vanessa Redgrave
- The White Album by Joan Didion
- “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander (Barack Obama Inauguration Poem; Video Recording)
- Alondra Nelson
- The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
- “Ep. 64 The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams — The Stacks Book Club (Lori Gottlieb)” (The Stacks)
- “The Light of the World” by Derek Walcott
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