Ep. 148 The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans — The Stacks Book Club (Deesha Philyaw)

January 27, 2021September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

It’s The Stacks Book Club day! On today’s episode we are joined again by author Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) to discuss The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. We go through each story in the collection and talk about our favorite parts, white innocence, and specificity in storytelling.
There are spoilers on this episode.

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

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
“Ep. 147 Crafting a Collection with Danielle Evans” (The Stacks)
Narcos (Netflix)
Ozark (Netflix)
Julia Garner
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011)
Chirs O’Dowd
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

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Ep. 147 Crafting a Collection with Danielle Evans

January 20, 2021September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ 1 Comment

Our guest today is Danielle Evans, author of The Stacks January Book Club selection, The Office of Historical Corrections. We discuss this incredible short story collection, spoiler free. We also discuss finding themes in a collection, and the ways Evans approaches writing white characters, plus how she came to understand she wanted to be a writer.
There are no spoilers on this episode.

The Stacks Book Club selection for January is The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, we will discuss the book with Deesha Philyaw on January 27th.

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

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
“Happily Ever After” (Danielle Evans, Gay Magazine)
Roxane Gay
Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura Vandenberg
The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Plum Bun by Jessi Redmon Fauset
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
“Danielle Evans’s Sublime Short Stories of Race, Grief, and Belonging” (Katy Waldman, The New Yorker)
Alicia Keys

Connect with Danielle: Twitter | Website

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The Stacks Book Club — January 2021

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

We made it to another year, and another year of The Stacks Book Club! We’re kicking off 2021 with a fantastic short story collection, The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans.

The Office of Historical Corrections is about the ways history, both personal and collective, can haunt, harm, and heal us. The stories range from a near future reality obsessed with correcting the public record to a college student embroiled in a campus wide scandal. These stories are connected in their ties to grief, inheritance, and truth, and in Evans’ skill at crafting characters and stories that leave you wanting more.

We will be discussing The Office of Historical Corrections on the podcast on Wednesday, January 27th. You can find out who our guest will be by listening to the podcast on January 6th. 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 January book on Bookshop.org or Amazon.

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