Unabridged: One for the Books with Rachel Lindsay and Chelsea Devantez

March 31, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Here is a little abridged version of Traci’s live show “One for the Books” with LAist. This time around, it’s a conversation with friends of the show Chelsea Devantez and Rachel Lindsay. We talk about Rachel’s book, why we should care about celebrity memoirs, the Bachelor franchise and so much more.

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

LAist
Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez
Spare by Prince Harry
J. R. Moehringer
Open by Andre Agassi
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
My Life So Far by Jane Fonda
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
Will by Will Smith
Mark Manson
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Becoming by Michelle Obama
“Obama is reportedly feeling competitive after Michelle’s smash-hit memoir and sometimes says she used a ghostwriter” (Alex Lockie, Insider)
Miss Me with That by Rachel Lindsay
Real Love by Rachel Lindsay
The Salt Eaters Bookshop (Inglewood, CA)
Extra TV
Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay (The Ringer)
Morally Corrupt (The Ringer)
The Bachelorette (ABC)
Jonathan Franzen
Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt, 1998)
Bryan Abasolo
‘”The Bachelorette’: Racist, Sexist Tweets Surface From Contestant on ABC Show” (Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety)
“‘The Bachelorette’: “Whaboom” Guy Admits He Went on the Show for Fame” (Christina Schoellkopf, Hollywood Reporter)
Zach Shallcross
Emily Maynard
Tayshia Adams
Matt James
“Rachael Kirkconnell Realized ‘Racist’ Fraternity Party Was Wrong Before ‘Bachelor’ Scandal: ‘I’m So Ashamed’” (Erin Crabtree, US Magazine)
Beverly Hills Disc and Laser Therapy Center (Beverly Hills, CA)
Fame (Alan Parker, 1980)
Sofia Quintero
Alexa Martin
Not Dead Yet (ABC)
The Problem with Jon Stewart (AppleTV+)
MILF Manor (TLC)
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Delta Style by Delta Burke
Designing Women (CBS)
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
True Love by Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez: Halftime (Netflix)
Tommy Mottola
Mariah Carey
“Jessica Simpson Opened Up About “Feeling Like A Failure” For Years After Being Body-Shamed By The World In 2009” (Natasha Jokic, Buzzfeed News)
John Mayer
Tony Romo
Dallas Cowboys
Rihanna
Rihanna’s Superbowl Halftime Show
Rihanna 2023 Performance
Beyoncé
Seth and Rihanna Go Day Drinking
Sandra Bullock
Jesse James
Kat Von D
Kanye West
North West
Meghan Markle
“Jada Pinkett Smith writing book covering ‘complicated marriage to Will Smith’” (Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly)
“Kerry Washington Is Set to Release New Memoir: ‘I Hope Readers Will Receive It with Open Hearts'” (Julie Jordan, People)
Unprisoned
Rue McClanahan
“Barbra Streisand’s First Memoir, ‘My Name Is Barbra’, Set For Fall Release” (Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline)
“Prince Harry’s Memoir The Spare” (Celebrity Book Club)
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
“Matthew Perry’s Memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” (Celebrity Book Club)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
Scandal (ABC)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Toni Morrison
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
You Deserve Better by Tyler Cameron
Paris by Paris Hilton
The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E. Joseph

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Ep. 260 Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay — The Stacks Book Club (Shanita Hubbard)

March 29, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Professor and Ride or Die author Shanita Hubbard returns to discuss the 2014 book of essays Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay for The Stacks Book Club. We look back at the collection and ask, how did the book hold up? Its mix of personal memoir, political commentary and pop culture references have us examining our relationship to the text from a new perspective in this spoiler-free episode.

Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for April 2023.

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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.

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Ride or Die by Shanita Hubbard
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (audiobook)
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Stacks Review on Ride or Die by Shanita Hubbard (IG @thestackspod)
Sweet Valley High books by Francine Pascal
Donald Goines
The Rumpus
The Washington Post
Joan Morgan
Lena Dunham
Girls (HBO)
The Bachelor (ABC)
“Bachelor’s Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell: A Complete Relationship and Drama Timeline” (Sarah Hearon, US Magazine)
Megan Thee Stallion
“Drake – lacking creativity and common courtesy – takes a jab at Megan Thee Stallion in new album Her Loss” (Gabrielle Sanchez, AV Club)
Taylor Swift
Scrabble
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)
Tyler Perry
“Roxane Gay pulls book from Simon & Schuster over Milo Yiannopoulos deal” (Amber Jamieson, The Guardian)
“The Steve Bannon-New Yorker controversy, explained” (Zack Beauchamp, Vox)
“Author Roxane Gay Pulls Podcast From Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s ‘Misinformation’” (Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone)
Milo Yiannopoulos
Hunger by Roxane Gay
“Roxane Gay: ‘Publishing Knows What They Paid Me, And They Should Be Ashamed'” (K.W. Colyard, Bustle)
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev
Trayvon Martin
“Jahar’s World” (Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
“‘I’ll always be a bad feminist!’: Roxane Gay on love, success – and upsetting Piers Morgan” (Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian)
“Ep. 259 How Innocent Are They with Joseph Earl Thomas” (The Stacks)
Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas
The Last Black Man in San Fransisco (Joe Talbot, 2019)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross and Francis Lawrence)
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

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Ep. 259 How Innocent Are They with Joseph Earl Thomas

March 22, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Writer and Philadelphia native Joseph Earl Thomas joins the show to discuss his new book Sink: A Memoir, about coming of age amid chaos and finding a way through. He talks about why he wanted to write a memoir that centers childhood without growing into adulthood, the challenge of writing his story in the face of respectability politics and the push to write about “Black joy.”

The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We will discuss the book on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard..

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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.

Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas
“Ep. 254 Heartbreak is Pivotal to Romance with Camonghne Felix” (The Stacks)
Dyscalculia by Camonghne Felix
Easy Bake Oven
Steve Irwin
Aisha Lockridge
St. Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA)
Grand Central Publishing
Kiese Laymon
Potted Meat by Steven Dunn
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Dragon Ball Z (Cartoon Network)
Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas (audiobook)

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Ep. 258 Long-Suffering Basketball Fans with José Olivarez

March 15, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Today we’re joined by poet, writer and educator José Olivarez to discuss his new book Promises of Gold, a collection of poems exploring all forms of love, including friendship, romantic and cultural. We find out why José had someone else translate his collection into Spanish when Spanish is his first language. We also discuss how he thinks about organizing his poems on the page and in the book, and why balance in a collection is so important.

The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We will discuss the book on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard.

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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.

Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
David Ruano González
Michael B. Jordan
Jonathan Majors
Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors photographed by Gioncarlo Valentine for NYT
“Opinion: Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors are the future” (Peniel E. Joseph, CNN)
Saguaro National Park
Nate Marshall
Be (Common, 2005)
Glory, Glory, Glory (Noel Jones and The City of Refuge Sanctuary Choir, 2007)
Lenny Bruce
Walt Whitman
Michael Jordan
Jimmy Butler
Derrick Rose
Baron Davis dunks on Kirilenko
Kobe Bryant
Kevin Garnett
Hanif Abdurraqib
Shakespearean sonnet
Petrarchan sonnet
Sour Patch Kids
Henry Holt and Company
Christopher Sergio
Antonio Salazar
Por Siempre by José Olivarez and Antonio Salazar
Haymarket Books
Homie by Danez Smith
The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
Electric Arches by Eve Ewing
Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
Finna by Nate Marshall
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz

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Ep. 257 The Hardest Book I Had to Write with Carol Anderson

March 8, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Prolific author, historian and educator Dr. Carol Anderson joins us to discuss her book The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. We talk about what sparked her interest in writing it, and dissect the role of anti-blackness in the formation and upholding of the second amendment. Carol reveals how she thinks of her writing in terms of persuasion versus education, and why this is the hardest book she has ever written.

The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We will discuss the book on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard.

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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 Second by Carol Anderson
White Rage by Carol Anderson
One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
Bourgeois Radicals by Carol Anderson
Eyes Off the Prize by Carol Anderson
The Killing of Philando Castile
National Rifle Association
“Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born” (Jason Wilson, The Guardian)
“The Waco tragedy, explained” (Tara Isabella Burton, Vox)
Waco by Jeff Guinn
Waco Rising by Kevin Cook
Koresh by Stephan Talty
“US reels after massacre in fourth-grade classroom leaves 21 dead” (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian)
“10 dead in Buffalo shooting, police commissioner says” (CNN)
“Aurora, Colo theater shooting timeline, facts” (ABC7)
“Church shooting suspect Dylann Roof captured amid hate crime investigation” (Robert Costa, Lindsey Bever, J. Freedom du Lac & Sari Horwitz, Washington Post)
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
“St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters to speak at Republican convention” (Kaitlan Collins, Caroline Kelly & Donald Judd, CNN)
Igor Volsky
Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2015)
“What we know about Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect Payton Gendron” (Shimon Prokupecz, Christina Maxouris, Dakin Andone, Samantha Beech & Amir Vera, CNN)
“Tamir Rice: video shows boy, 12, shot ‘seconds’ after police confronted child” (Tom McCarthy, The Guardian)
Children Under Fire by John Woodrow Cox
The OpEd Project
“Rehab” (Amy Winehouse, 2006)
“Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress” (Carol Anderson, Washington Post)
Mahalia Jackson
Stono Rebellion
David Koresh
Lipton Cold Brew Iced Tea
Guns Down by Igor Volsky
The Second Amendment by Michael Waldman
Loaded by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington

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The Stacks Book Club – March 2023

March 1, 2023February 28, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Our March selection for The Stacks Book Club is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. Released in 2014, it’s a New York Times bestselling essay collection offering sharp cultural critique, insight and humor in every piece. Gay explores what it means to be a feminist while also loving things that are decidedly at odds with that ideology. She uses a variety of pop culture references to help tent-post her stories and reflections on being an evolving Black woman in America, countering all of the associated societal strongholds and offering a call-to-arms to readers. An instant classic, Bad Feminist was named Best Book of the Year by NPR, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Time Out New York and Book Riot, among others.

We will discuss Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay on Wednesday, March 29th with our guest Shanita Hubbard. 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 March book on Bookshop.org and Amazon, or listen to the audiobook.

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Ep. 256 Centering Us with Shanita Hubbard

March 1, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Today professor and author Shanita Hubbard speaks with The Stacks about her book Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women. We discuss the cultural erasure of Black women and why the idea that they will “save the world” is manipulative. We also note how Black female essayists have been weaving together scholarly and pop cultural commentary in the most complex and delightful ways.

The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We will discuss the book on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard.

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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.

Ride or Die by Shanita Hubbard
The Corner (Common, 2005)
50 years of hip-hop at the 2023 Grammy Awards
Megan Thee Stallion
Cardi B
Dipset
The Lox
Audre Lorde
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Toni Morrison
Soros Justice Fellowship
James Baldwin Fellowship
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Lauryn Hill
Sean Combs
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
The Body Liberation Project by Chrissy King
Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Faraway Brothers by Lauren Markham
Stakes Is High by Mychal Denzel Smith
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal Denzel Smith
Stakes Is High by Mychal Denzel Smith (audiobook)
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Black Women Will Save the World by April Ryan
The Movement Made Us by David Dennis Jr. and David Dennis Sr.
All About Love by bell hooks
Black Women Writers at Work edited by Claudia Tate
Maya Angelou
Nikki Giovanni
Black Girl Call Home by Jasmine Mans
Shameka Erby
Zane
Mahogany Books (Washington DC)
Harriett’s Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA)
Uncle Bobbie’s (Philadelphia, PA)
Barnes & Noble
“Ep. 135 The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley– The Stacks Book Club (Marc Lamont Hill)” (The Stacks)
Red Lip Theology by Candice Marie Benbow
No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L Moore
It Was All a Dream by Justin Tinsley
The Notorious B.I.G.
E-40
Too Short
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day by Nikki Giovanni
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“A New Way to Read Gatsby” (Alonzo Vereen, The Atlantic)
Combahee River Collective

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