Welcome to The Stacks: Unabridged the exclusive podcast of The Stacks Pack. This is our inaugural episode, and to kick things off, we’ve brought friend of the pod, author, and generally wonderful human, Kiese Laymon in to interview Traci! We talk about celebrity, writing, Oprah, and The Mini Stacks! Spoiler Alert: Kiese asks the best questions.
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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.
- PodcastOne
- LadyGang (PodcastOne)
- The Laura Ingraham’s Podcast (Laura Ingraham)
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Woodminster Amphitheater
- The Music Man
- You Gotta Be by Des’ree
- A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare
- Barbara Walters
- 20/20 (ABC)
- Jenny Jones
- Oprah Winfrey
- I Love You Always Forever by Betty Who
- Clique by Kanye West ft. Big Sean & Jay-Z
- Peloton
- “Ep. 151 Truth and Satire with Mateo Askariapour” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 181 We Don’t Have to Agree with Jill Louise Busby” (The Stacks)
- A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Freedom Reads (formerly Million Book Project)
- “Ep. 158 Reaching for Answers with Reginald Dwayne Betts” (The Stacks)
- 2019 Holiday School Book Drive
- 2019 Anniversary Book Drive
- @AllisonreadsDC 2021 Book Drive
- Adam Serwer
- “Ep. 176 Leaving a Record of History with Adam Serwer” (The Stacks)
- The Atlantic
- “Ep. 168 Embodying History with Clint Smith” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 149 A Bias Toward Justice with Vann Newkirk” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 172 The Art vs. The Artist with Quentin Tarantino” (The Stacks)
- Meghan Markle
- Oprah’s “silent vs silence” moment (youtube.com)
- James Frey
- The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
- “Stumping for Larry Elder, Rose McGowan drums up recall drama by bashing Newsom family” (Nardina Saad, The Los Angeles Times)
- Tarana Burke
- Jo Piazza
- “Ep. 23 Talking Women in Politics with Jo Piazza” (The Stacks)
- James J. Sexton
- “Ep. 49 Relationships and Recommendations with James Sexton” (The Stacks)
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd
- Long Division by Kiese Laymon
- The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
- Jason Reynolds
- Mira Jacob
- Shea Serrano
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Seek You by Kristen Radtke
- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- “Ep. 4 Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward — The Stacks Book Club (Sarah Fong)” (The Stacks)
- “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” by D’Angelo
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
- Abolition for the People edited by Colin Kaepernick
- The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times Magazine
- Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
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