Ep. 148 The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans — The Stacks Book Club (Deesha Philyaw)

January 27, 2021September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

It’s The Stacks Book Club day! On today’s episode we are joined again by author Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) to discuss The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. We go through each story in the collection and talk about our favorite parts, white innocence, and specificity in storytelling.
There are spoilers on this episode.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
“Ep. 147 Crafting a Collection with Danielle Evans” (The Stacks)
Narcos (Netflix)
Ozark (Netflix)
Julia Garner
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011)
Chirs O’Dowd
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

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Ep. 147 Crafting a Collection with Danielle Evans

January 20, 2021September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ 1 Comment

Our guest today is Danielle Evans, author of The Stacks January Book Club selection, The Office of Historical Corrections. We discuss this incredible short story collection, spoiler free. We also discuss finding themes in a collection, and the ways Evans approaches writing white characters, plus how she came to understand she wanted to be a writer.
There are no spoilers on this episode.

The Stacks Book Club selection for January is The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, we will discuss the book with Deesha Philyaw on January 27th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
“Happily Ever After” (Danielle Evans, Gay Magazine)
Roxane Gay
Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura Vandenberg
The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Plum Bun by Jessi Redmon Fauset
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
“Danielle Evans’s Sublime Short Stories of Race, Grief, and Belonging” (Katy Waldman, The New Yorker)
Alicia Keys

Connect with Danielle: Twitter | Website

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Ep. 146 Integrity in Collaboration with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham

January 13, 2021September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Today we welcome Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham to The Stacks. They are the editors of Black Futures, a collection of art, essays, memes, recipes and more that document Blackness. In addition to working on this book together, Kimberly is also the author of This is What I Know About Art, an activist, and curator. Jenna is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the co-host of the Still Processing podcast. Today we talk about collaboration in the creative process, how they built this book, and what trust and integrity can look like in professional relationships.

The Stacks Book Club selection for January is The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, we will discuss the book with Deesha Philyaw on January 27th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
This is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew
The New York Times Magazine
Still Processing (The New York Times)
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
“A love story for the coral reef crisis” (Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, TED Talk)
“Today’s Rampage at the Capitol, as It Happened” (The New York Times)

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Hank Willis Thomas
Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot
“Jacob Blake Shooting: No Charges Against Officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin” (Robert Chiarito, Julie Bosman and John Eligon, The New York Time)
Wesley Morris
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
“Dancing in the Moonlight” (Still Processing, The New York Times)
“Independent” Webbie
Jenna’s work at The Times New York Times
Chris Jackson
One World
The Twilight Soundtrack (2008)
Robert Glasper
Kelsey Lu
Ctrl (SZA, 2017)
Soundcloud
Poppy Juice
Discwoman
Spotify
Siedeh Foxie
Kia Damon
Bibi’s Kitchen by Hawa Hassan
Morcos Key
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
Carolyn Lazard
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
Soul Fire Farm
Exhibiting Blackness by Bridget Cooks
The New Negro by Alain Locke
“A Peek at the Variety, Wonder and Trauma of Black Life, Then and Now” (Scaachi Koul, The New York Times)
Toni Morrison
Toni Cade Bambara
Ziwe Fumudoh
Kimberly Drew on Ziwe’s IG Live Show (July 23, 2020)

Connect with Kimberly: Twitter | Instagram
Connect with Jenna: Twitter | Instagram | Website

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Ep. 145 Measuring Success with Deesha Philyaw

January 6, 2021September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

It’s 2021 and we’re thrilled to kick off the new year with our guest, Deesha Philyaw, the author of National Book Award Finalist, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Today we discuss how Deesha sees a parallel between writing and math, what success looks like to her, and how publishing excludes the voices they need most.

The Stacks Book Club selection for January is The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, we will discuss the book with Deesha Philyaw on January 27th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

Books

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Kiese Laymon
Co-Parenting 101 by Deesha Philyaw and Michael D. Thomas
Olive Witch by Abeer Y. Hoque
Carmen Maria Machado
Toni Morrison
August Wilson
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
The Stacks’ Antiracist Reading List
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
How to Sit by Tyrese Coleman
I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying by Bassey Ikpi

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White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell
Do Better by Rachel Ricketts
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Do Right by Me by Valerie I. Harrison & Kathryn Peach D’Angelo
This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Braiding Sweetgrasss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
All We Can Save edited by Katharine K. Wilkinson & Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Untrue by Wednesday Martin
Jason Reynolds
Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broom
Wayward Lives Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love by Yona Harvey
Survival Math by Mitchell S. Jackson
The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
Finna by Nate Marshall
Hallelujah Science by Kelli Stevens Kane
Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Oreo by Fran Ross
Harryette Mullen
Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston
Mat Johnson
The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander
Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
James Baldwin
Fences by August Wilson
Why Didn’t We Riot by Issac J. Bailey

Everything Else

“Ep. 118 Living the Revision with Kiese Laymon” (The Stacks)
“Ep. 143 The Best of 2020 with Christine Bollow and Oscar Almonte-Espinal” (The Stacks)
Traci’s 10 Favorite Reads of 2020 (Traci Thomas, The Stacks)
“Ep. 123 Complication and Imagination with Brit Bennett” (The Stacks)
National Book Award 2020 Finalists
The Audacious Book Club from Roxane Gay
“How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour” (Ruby Hamad, The Guardian)
Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi, 2016)
Neil Degrasse Tyson
“Just How White Is the Book Industry?” (Richard Jean So and Gus Wezerek, The New York Times)
Shine Theory
Kirkus Review of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
White Whale Bookstore (Pittsburgh, PA)
City Books (Pittsburgh, PA)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe, 2020)
The Tiny Bookstore (Pittsburgh, PA)
Harriett’s Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA)
Loyalty Bookstore (Washington, DC)
Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books (Philadelphia, PA)
By The Book (The New York Times)

Connect with Deesha: Twitter | Instagram | Website

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The Stacks Book Club — January 2021

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

We made it to another year, and another year of The Stacks Book Club! We’re kicking off 2021 with a fantastic short story collection, The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans.

The Office of Historical Corrections is about the ways history, both personal and collective, can haunt, harm, and heal us. The stories range from a near future reality obsessed with correcting the public record to a college student embroiled in a campus wide scandal. These stories are connected in their ties to grief, inheritance, and truth, and in Evans’ skill at crafting characters and stories that leave you wanting more.

We will be discussing The Office of Historical Corrections on the podcast on Wednesday, January 27th. You can find out who our guest will be by listening to the podcast on January 6th. If you’d like even more discussion around the book consider joining The Stacks Pack on Patreon and participating in The Stacks’ monthly virtual book club.

Order your copy of our January book on Bookshop.org or Amazon.

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