Unabridged: Remaining Human with Kiese Laymon

In this episode of The Stacks Unabridged, we are joined once again by author Kiese Laymon, to discuss his first children’s book, City Summer, Country Summer, and the emotional resonance of sports narratives. We also share how we’re staying human in the midst of so much inhumanity.

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

• City Summer, Country Summer by Kiese Laymon illustrated by Alexis Franklin

• Unabridged: The NYC Early Show with Kiese Laymon (The Stacks)

• Ep. 118 Living the Revision with Kiese Laymon (The Stacks)

• Ep. 122 Breathe by Imani Perry -- The Stacks Book Club (Kiese Laymon) (The Stacks)

• Alexis Franklin

• “City Summer, Country Summer” (Kiese Laymon, The New York Times)

• Namrata Tripathi

• Long Division by Kiese Laymon

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon (audiobook)

• Patrick Radden Keefe

• Kathy Belden

• Ep. 358 The Purpose of Schools with Eve L. Ewing (The Stacks)

• Darnell Moore

• Lebron James

• Dawn Staley

• “Paige Bueckers embraces Geno Auriemma after checking out for final time at UConn ❤️” (ESPN, Youtube)

• Juju Watkins

• Angel Reese

• Caitlin Clark

• The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

• Daniil Medvedev

• Novak Djokovic

• Frances Tiafoe

• Colin Kaepernick

• James Baldwin

• Toni Morrison

• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• “The First White President” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic)

• Thanos

• Sesame Street

• Mark Zuckerberg

• “Donald Trump and the Last-Ditch Effort of a Dying Empire With Michael Harriot” (Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay, The Ringer)

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

• “Huge crowds gather in 'Hands Off' rallies nationwide in protest of Trump administration” (Ivan Pereira, Christiane Cordero, and Noah Minnie, ABC News)

• Hello, My Name Is Octicorn by Kevin Diller and Justin Lowe illustrated by Binny Talib

• Crab Cake by Andrea Tsurumi

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