Today we’re joined by the owner of Loyalty Bookstores, Hannah Oliver Depp. We hear about Hannah’s road to owning her own bookstores in the Washington D.C. area, how she decides what to have in stock, and how indie bookstores influence the publishing world. We also discuss the best ways to support indie bookshops, and where the name Loyalty came from.
The Stacks Book Club selection for June is Oreo by Fran Ross. We will discuss the book on June 28th with Hannah Oliver Depp.
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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.
- Loyalty Bookstores
- “Day 3 — Banned Books in The Stacks with Ghazala Hashmi and Hannah Oliver Depp” (The Stacks)
- Politics and Prose Bookstore (Washington D. C.)
- Word Bookstores (Jersey City)
- Reparations Club (Los Angeles, CA)
- “Upshur Street Books to become Loyalty Books” (Petworth News)
- Kendrick Lamar
- C. S. Lewis
- DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar
- “Loyalty” (Kendrick Lamar, 2017)
- Lupita Aquino
- Erich Segal
- Bryan Washington
- Traci’s “Dude Lit” Twitter Thread
- Brandon Taylor
- New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- Either/Or by Elif Batuman
- Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
- Sucker by Daniel Hornsby
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Succession (HBO)
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- Edelweiss
- Spare by Prince Harry
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
- Seven Stories Press
- Jesmyn Ward
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Beverly Jenkins
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Dream of Europe by Audre Lorde
- Lost City Books (Washington, D.C.)
- Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
- Belonging In Europe by Caroline Bressey and Hakim Adi (eds)
- Chokehold by Paul Butler
- Our Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
- Samantha Irby
- Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton
- “Ep. 143 The Best of 2020 with Christine Bollow and Oscar Almonte-Espinal” (The Stacks)
- Oreo by Fran Ross
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