Political and relationship essayist Minda Honey is here to discuss her new book The Heartbreak Years: A Memoir. We talk about Minda’s experience of being Black and Filipina, colorism and the internet’s lack of nuance, how her exes have taken her writing about them and how she cured racism with this book. Also, we hear about Minda’s reading tracker and annual mega-reading challenge.

The Stacks Book Club selection for October is Tar Baby by Toni Morrison. We will discuss the book on October 25th with Minda Honey.

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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 Heartbreak Years by Minda Honey
• Toni Morrison
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• “Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)” (The Stacks)
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• reckon
• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
• Meetup.com
• Jonathan Franzen
• Zora Neale Hurston
• LA Times Festival of Books
• The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
• “A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture” (Minda Honey, Longreads)
• Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay (The Ringer)
• “Sage Steele and Biracial Identity With Marc Lamont Hill” (Higher Learning, The Ringer)
• Rachel Lindsay
• Van Lathan
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Sage Steele
• Lipstick Alley
• Frederick Douglass
• Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
• Waiting to Exhale (Forest Whitaker, 1995)
• Askthestacks@thestackspodcast.com
• The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
• The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• “Ep. 126 Sula by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Brit Bennett)” (The Stacks)
• “Ep. 187 Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan — The Stacks Book Club (Nichole Perkins)” (The Stacks)
• First Love by Lilly Dancyger
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• Motherworld by Destiny Hemphill
• Action Books
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Stacks Pack Patreon
• Bread and Circus by Airea D Matthews
• Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
• The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
• Brutalities by Margo Steines
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington
• Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
• The Perfect Find by Tia Williams
• The Perfect Find (Numa Perrier, 2023)
• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
• Ross Gay
• Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
• Foxing Books (Louisville, KY)
• Trouble Bar (Louisville, KY)
• We Are Too Many by Hannah Pittard
• Old Enough by Haley Jakobson
• Southernmost by Silas House
• Tyler Childers – In Your Love (Official Video)
• James Baldwin
• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
• Kanye West
• College Dropout by Kanye West
• Monsters by Claire Dederer
• “Ep. 286 Monsters by Claire Dederer — The Stacks Book Club (Brittany Luse)” (The Stacks)
• 808s and Heartbreak by Kanye West
• Woody Allen
• Hunter Biden
• The Heartbreak Years by Minda Honey (audiobook)

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