Ep. 147 Crafting a Collection with Danielle Evans
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 and on Bookshop.org and 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)
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)
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