The Short Stacks 28: Jacqueline Woodson//Red at the Bone

We are thrilled to have best selling novelist and poet Jacqueline Woodson on The Short Stacks to discuss Red at the Bone, her newest book, and our book club pick for this week (tune in on Wednesday)! We talk with Jacqueline about how she turned a childhood habit of lying into a career, crafting authentic characters, and giving a TED Talk.
There are no spoilers on this episode.

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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.

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Tulsa Massacre
• After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• Drake aka Aubrey Graham
• Toshi Reagon
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
• William Faulkner
• Audre Lorde
• Jacqueline Woodson: What Reading Slowly Taught Me About Writing (TEDTalk)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
• Langston Hughes
• James Baldwin
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Robert Frost
• Phillis Wheatley
• Marie Howe
• Nikki Giovanni
• Raymond Carver
• Toni Morrison
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
• My Brother was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Joe Morton
• Books Narrated by Joe Morton

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