Ep. 145 Measuring Success with Deesha Philyaw
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 and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Co-Parenting 101 by Deesha Philyaw and Michael D. Thomas
Olive Witch by Abeer Y. Hoque
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
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
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
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
The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander
Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
Fences by August Wilson
Why Didn't We Riot by Issac J. Bailey
"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)
"How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour" (Ruby Hamad, The Guardian)
Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi, 2016)
"Just How White Is the Book Industry?" (Richard Jean So and Gus Wezerek, The New York Times)
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)
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