Bestselling author Nicole Chung joins The Stacks to discuss her new book A Living Remedy: A Memoir. We talk about her process of writing and talking about grief in the midst and aftermath of COVID, and what it’s like as a memoirist to be publicly known for her family life. We also hear what it’s meant for Nicole to become a full-time writer, and how she uses vibes to organize her books.

The Stacks Book Club selection for May is This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris. We will discuss the book on May 31st with Nicole Chung.

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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.

• A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
• “Ep. 46 All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung — The Stacks Book Club (Vanessa McGrady)” (The Stacks)
• “The Short Stacks 6: Nicole Chung//All You Can Ever Know” (The Stacks)
• Welcome Home by Eric Smith (ed)
• Shannon Gibney
• Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
• The Stacks review of A Living Remedy (Instagram)
• Catapult
• Catapult Magazine
• Nicole Chung at The Atlantic
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
• The Search for God and Guinness by Stephen Mansfield
• The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
• Jon Krakauer
• Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
• Half American by Matthew F. Delmont
• The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
• Stuart Little by E. B. White
• To Save the Children of Korea by Arissa H. Oh
• We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
• A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
• Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
• White Cat Black Dog by Kelly Link
• Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
• Ada Limón
• Ocean Vuong
• Lucille Clifton
• Clint Smith
• Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
• R. O. Kwon
• “Ep. 154 Representation in Kink with R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell” (The Stacks)
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Manson by Jeff Guinn
• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
• Bryan Washington
• Ted Chiang
• Above Ground by Clint Smith
• Memorial by Bryan Washington (audiobook)
• Libro.FM
• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (audiobook)
• Jennifer Kim
• A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung (audiobook)
• Loyalty Bookstores (Washington D. C.)
• Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy
• Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA)
• Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
• Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
• Congratulations, The Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas
• Breathe by Imani Perry
• “Ep. 122 Breathe by Imani Perry — The Stacks Book Club (Kiese Laymon)” (The Stacks)
• South to America by Imani Perry
• National Book Award
• Agatha Christie
• This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris
• Some of My Best Friends by Tajja Isen
• The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
• June Jordan
• Langston Hughes
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin

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