Ep. 267 The Pull to Make Art with Vashti Harrison

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

Bestselling author and illustrator Vashti Harrison joins us to talk about Big, her new storybook educating children on growth and self-love. We discuss how Vashti explored the adultification of black girls, and how she utilized the color pink throughout the book. She also explains how she thinks about parents and kids as her target audience, and the process of linking an author to an illustrator in the world of children’s books.

The Stacks Book Club selection for May is This Boy We Made 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.

Big by Vashti Harrison
Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
“Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood” (Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake and Thalia Gonzalez, Georgetown University)
Little Legends by Vashti Harrison
Degas Dancers
Little Dreamers by Vashti Harrison
Michelle Obama
Cece Loves Science and Adventure by Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Johannes , illustrated by Vashti Harrison
Hello Stars by Alena Pitts with Wynter Pitts
Harriet the Spy (Bronwen Hughes, 1996)
Michelle Trachtenberg
University of Virginia
Love is Blind (Netflix)
“For Netflix, the Love Is Blind Live Reunion Fiasco Is More Than Just Embarrassing” (Judy Berman, Time)
Succession (HBO)
Hair Love ABCs by Matthew A. Cherry, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder
I Love My Body Because by Shelly Anand and Nomi Ellenson, illustrated by Erika Rodriguez Medina
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
We Need Diverse Books
Toni Morrison

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Ep. 232 What Should the Rules Be with Andrea Elliott

September 14, 2022April 3, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Andrea Elliott joins us to discuss her investigative reporting career and her Pulitzer Prize winning book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. We go over how this remarkable story came to be, and how it shifted from what Andrea first anticipated. We also get into what can and should change about the ethics of journalism, and the challenge of protecting children from themselves in the media.

The Stacks Book Club selection for September is The Trees by Percival Everett. We will discuss the book on September 28th with Lisa Lucas.

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Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott

Pulitzer Prize
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
Invisible Child – Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life (Andrea Elliott, The New York Times)
“Ep. 180 Fifty Years After Attica with Heather Ann Thompson” (The Stacks)
“Here are Barack Obama’s top 13 book recommendations of 2021” (Megan Sauer, CNBC)
“An Imam in America: A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn, Reconciling 2 Worlds” (Andrea Elliott, The New York Times)

Ruth Fremson
Doritos
Oreos
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Jon Krakauer
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
Invisible Child audiobook

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Ep. 24 Motherhood by Sheila Heti — The Stacks Book Club (Jo Piazza)

September 12, 2018September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ 3 Comments

Its time for another episode of The Stacks Book Club, and this week we are discussing Motherhood by Sheila Heti. We are joined again by author Jo Piazza (Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, How to Be Married) to discuss Motherhood, a book about one woman’s meditation on weather or not to have children. The book is written in a unique style and falls into the genre of biographical fiction. There are no spoilers on this episode.

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Hunger by Roxane Gay
Ep. 23 Talking Women in Politics with Jo Piazza
Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win by Jo Piazza
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
A Vistit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
“Let’s Talk About My Abortion (and Yours)” (Cindi Leive, New York Times)
Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win by Jo Piazza
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
“I Just Want to See You Shine” (Committed, How Stuff Works)
Register to Vote
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
Talk Story Bookstore
Lingua Franca
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

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