Ep. 269 This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris — The Stacks Book Club (Nicole Chung)

May 31, 2023May 30, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Author Nicole Chung returns to discuss our May book club selection This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris. We discuss the importance of specificity in memoir, and how much likability and reliability matter. We also talk about where this book shines and where it falls short.

Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for June 2023.

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This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris
Big Mom on Campus by Taylor Harris (McSweeney’s)
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Educated by Tara Westover
Spare by Prince Harry
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
The People’s Hospital by Ricardo Nuila
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
“Unrest in Virginia: Clashes Over a Show of White Nationalism in Charlottesville Turn Deadly” (Andrew Katz, Time)
Bill Maher
Nicole Caputo
“won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton
Oreo by Fran Ross

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Unabridged: The Best of 2023…So Far with Lupita Aquino, Liberty Hardy, and Greta Johnsen

May 26, 2023May 24, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Here by popular demand is our first Unabridged mid-year best of’s (so-far) episode, featuring a trio of our favorite bookish friends – Book Riot’s Liberty Hardy, Lupita Aquino (aka @Lupita.Reads) and Nerdette’s Greta Johnsen. We list and discuss our favorite 2023 releases we’ve read, the backslist we’re obsessed with, and a few picks we’re looking forward to in the back half of the year.

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Nerdette (WBEZ Chicago)
“Ep. 195 The Best Books of 2021 with Lupita Aquino and Morgan Hoit” (The Stacks)
“Ep. 131 The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio — The Stacks Book Club (Lupita Aquino)” (The Stacks)
“Ep. 127 Crushes and Controversy with Lupita Aquino” (The Stacks)
@Lupita.Reads (IG)
All the Books! (Book Riot)
The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
National Book Award
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
Kevin Wilson
Take What You Need by Idra Novi
“Nerdette Book Club: Idra Novey on ‘Take What You Need’” (Nerdette, WBEZ Chicago)
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
“Nerdette Book Club: Michael Bennett on ‘Better the Blood’” (Nerdette, WBEZ Chicago)
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
“Reading While Lapsed: A Conversation with BookTok Icon Lupita Aquino” (Lapsed)
“Ep. 253 I Tend to Write About It with Lamya H.” (The Stacks)
We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
“Child in viral Portland police hug photo missing, 5 family members dead after California cliff crash” (Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian)
We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian (audiobook)
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Paul Farmer
Jim O’Connell
The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro Varela
The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
Marin Ireland
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
Big Swiss y Jen Beagin
The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether
Rivermouth by Alejandra Oliva
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
“Ep. 258 Long-Suffering Basketball Fans with José Olivarez” (The Stacks)
Angie Cruz
Soledad by Angie Cruz
Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Bayard Rustin
Fred Trump
Larry Kramer
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
William Shakespeare
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
“Your summer books preview” (Nerdette)
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Flores and Miss Paula by Melissa Rivero
The Affairs of the Falcons by Melissa Rivero
“Best books of 2021” (Nerdette)
MJ Franklin
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
More is More by Molly Baz
Chicky Chicky Bread Bread (Molly Baz from Instagram)
Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
Blackouts by Justin Torres
We the Animals by Justin Torres
We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar, 2018)
Company by Shannon Sanders
Danielle Evans
Creep by Myriam Gurba
The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper

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Ep. 268 Over Burdened and Under Funded by Roxanna Asgarian

May 24, 2023May 22, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Journalist and author Roxanna Asgarian joins The Stacks to talk about her new book, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America. We find out how Roxanna pushed back against true crime culture in writing about the 2018 Hart family murders. We also discuss how birth families are treated versus adoptive parents, how race and class factor into American child welfare and the financial implications of the system.

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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We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
The Texas Tribune
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
“Child in viral Portland police hug photo missing, 5 family members dead after California cliff crash” (Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian/Oregon Live)
Broken Harts (iHeart True Crime)
“The story behind Devonte Hart’s famous ‘hug’ photo” (Everton Bailey Jr., The Oregonian/Oregon Live)
Atlanta: Three Slaps (FX)
“Devonte Hart’s biological mom: They gave my kids ‘to monsters'” (Roxanna Asgarian, The Oregonian/Oregon Live)
“A mother grapples with an adoption that led to deaths” (Roxanna Asgarian, The Appeal)
“His siblings were killed by their adoptive mother. He was left in foster care to suffer a more common fate.” (Roxanna Asgarian, The Washington Post)
“Ep. 232 What Should the Rules Be with Andrea Elliott” (The Stacks)
Annie (John Huston, 1982)
Oliver! (Carol Reed, 1968)
“Ep. 239 The Purpose of a System Is What It Does with Mariame Kaba” (The Stacks)
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
The New York Times
Yanni
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

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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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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. 266 We Are the Ones Who Make the World with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

May 10, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Award-winning author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah joins us for a spoiler-free discussion of his new novel Chain-Gang All Stars. He shares the pressures he’s felt ahead of releasing his second book, and his trepidation around how the book will be received in prison abolition spaces. Plus, we find out what makes revision so important to Nana, and how he thinks about employing violence in the book to help tell this story.

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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Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“Ep. 48 Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah — The Stacks Book Club (Wade Allain-Marcus)” (The Stacks)
“The Short Stacks 7: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah//Friday Black” (The Stacks)
The Stacks Pack
“Sometimes, Academic Writing Hits Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Emotionally” (Rebecca Clarke, The New York Times)
“Bookseller survey finds debut authors struggle with lack of support” (Editorial Team, The Bookseller)
Matt Bell on Second Book Anxiety (@mdbell79)
Simone Biles
“If You Can’t Beat Them, Change The Rules: “The Biles” And Unfair Barriers For Excellence In America” (Colin Seale, Forbes)
Mariame Kaba
“Ep. 239 The Purpose of a System Is What It Does with Mariame Kaba” (The Stacks)
Angela Davis
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site (Philadelphia, PA)
Peripheral Neuropathy (NIH)
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Bayard Rustin
Fred Trump
Larry Kramer
Waterstones UK edition of Chain-Gang All-Stars
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Squid Game (Netflix)
Serena Williams
LeBron James
Semicolon Cafe (New York, NY)
Semicolon Bookstore (Chicago, IL)
Delta Air Lines
Pantheon Books
We Do this Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
“Ep. 22 The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner — The Stacks Book Club (Becca Tobin)” (The Stacks)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (audiobook)
The “Look at Us” meme (Paul Rudd on Hot Ones)

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Ep. 265 Deep Comfort Reads with Nicole Chung

May 3, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

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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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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The Stacks Book Club – May 2023

May 1, 2023April 27, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Our May book club selection is This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris. It is the debut memoir from Harris, a mother of three in Charlottesville, Virginia whose writing has appeared in many publications, including O Quarterly, Time, Longreads, Parents and The Washington Post. The book is a moving examination of Black motherhood against the odds of generalized anxiety, mystery illness and our flawed, hostile health and education systems. The author recounts her life-changing experience and relentless search for truth and answers with the help of Google, perseverance and lots of prayer. This Boy We Made was released in 2022 and was a finalist for the 2023 Southern Book Prize.

We will discuss This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris on Wednesday, May 31st. You can find out who our guest will be by listening to our May 3rd episode. 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 May book on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

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Unabridged: Making a Book of Poems with Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Matthew Hollis

April 28, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

On this Unabridged, we hear from poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley (Quiet: Poems) and her editor Matthew Hollis about their process in collaborating on a book of poems. They talk about the secrets shared between editors and authors, how the poems look on the page and the art of punctuation and line endings.

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Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
The Sovereignty of Quiet by Kevin Quashie
Brown University (Providence, RI)
Faber and Faber
Lavinia Singer
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Keats
Royal Holloway, University of London
Lavinia Greenlaw
Emma Patterson
Samuel Beckett
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis
William Shakespeare
Tim Carroll
Ted Hughes
Premier League
League One
Norwich City F. C.
Ipswich Town F.C.
Arsenal F.C.
Manchester City F.C.
Clint Smith
Sula by Toni Morrison
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

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Ep. 264 Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay — The Stacks Book Club (Clint Smith)

April 26, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Poet and Above Ground author Clint Smith returns to discuss our April book club selection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, a poetry collection by Ross Gay. We discuss the moment of the book’s release and why it’s important within the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. We also argue that successfully engaging with a poem doesn’t require understanding what a poem is about, and we ask how much the author’s intent actually matters in poetry.

Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for May 2023.

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Above Ground by Clint Smith
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
“Ep. 168 Embodying History with Clint Smith” (The Stacks)
“Ep. 261 All at Once with Clint Smith” (The Stacks)
“A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
South to America by Imani Perry
“Too Close” (Next, 2001)
“Ep. 212 Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston — The Stacks Book Club (Nate Marshall)” (The Stacks)
Wild Beauty by Ntozake Shange
“Ep. 56 Wild Beauty by Ntozake Shange — The Stacks Book Club (Gabrielle Civil)” (The Stacks)
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
“Ep. 161 The Tradition by Jericho Brown — The Stacks Book Club (Reginald Dwayne Betts)” (The Stacks)
Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston
Gabrielle Civil
Bad Bunny
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
Finna by Nate Marshall
“Thank U, Next” (Arianna Grande, 2019)
Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Jay Durrah
Photo of Black Civil War Soldiers
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
“Ep. 160 Black People Doing Spectacular Things with Hanif Abdurraqib” (The Stacks)
Ritz Crackers
William Shakespeare
Eve Ewing
Safia Elhillo
Elizabeth Acevedo
Fatima Asghar
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris

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Ep. 263 Revisiting Waco 30 Years Later with Jeff Guinn, Stephan Talty, and Kevin Cook

April 19, 2023May 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Today marks thirty years since the last day of the FBI siege on the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas. We hear from three authors who released books on the events this year: Jeff Guinn (Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage), Stephan Talty (Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco) and Kevin Cook (Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias) They address why they chose to tell this story now, what exactly happened in Waco (and why), and why this story is still relevant today.

The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay. We will discuss the book on April 26th with Clint Smith.

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JEFF GUINN

Waco by Jeff Guinn
Manson by Jeff Guinn
The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
Oklahoma City bombing
January 6 United States Capitol attack
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
David Koresh
Branch Davidians
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Coke Zero
The Allure of Immortality by Lyn Millner
John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

STEPHAN TALTY

Koresh by Stephen Talty
The Sopranos finale (HBO)
Marc Breault
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
Gary Gilmore
A Captain’s Duty by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty
Trust the Plan by Will Sommer
Ron DeSantis

KEVIN COOK

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