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Ep. 424 Why Kim Kardashian Is the Icon of Our Time with MJ Corey

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Ep. 423 Normalize Bringing Up Quantum Field Theory with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Ep. 422 Room Swept Home by Remica Bingham-Risher — The Stacks Book Club (Mahogany L. Browne)

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Ep. 421 What I Love About Love with Adrienne Thurman

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Unabridged: Poetry Therapy 2.0

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Ep. 420 We Read One Poem at a Time with Ada Limón

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Ep. 419 I Don’t Want You to Know Where I’m Going with Patrick Radden Keefe

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Ep. 418 I Write and Speak Unlawfully with Mahogany L. Browne

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Ep. 417 Paradise by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Namwali Serpell)

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Unabridged: Let’s Never Talk About These Oscars Again with Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford

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Ep. 416 I Only Wrote By Lava Lamp with T Kira Madden

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Ep. 415 The Feeling of Being Known with Tayari Jones

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Ep. 414 Toni Morrison Broke the Novel Form Open with Namwali Serpell

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Ep. 413 Indigo by Beverly Jenkins — The Stacks Book Club (Jasmine Guillory)

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Ep. 412 The Racial Caste System of America with Dorothy Roberts

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Unabridged: Bad Bunny Bowl with Vanessa Díaz & Petra Rivera-Rideau

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Ep. 411 I Don’t Believe Any Moment in History Is Dry with Heather Ann Thompson

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Ep. 410 Romance Is Helpful When Times Are Scary with Jasmine Guillory

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Ep. 409 Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert — The Stacks Book Club (Christiana Mbakwe Medina)

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Unabridged: Most Anticipated Books of 2026 with Sara Hildreth and Cree Myles

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Ep. 408 Storming the Capitol with Mary Clare Jalonick

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Ep. 407 The Fires of the Future with Jacob Soboroff

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Ep. 406 A Consumer of Pop Culture First with Christiana Mbakwe Medina

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Ep. 405 Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger — The Stacks Book Club (Joel Anderson)

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Ep. 404 The Best Books of 2025 with MJ Franklin and Greta Johnsen

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Unabridged: I Hated It, Thanks for Asking with Nora McInerny

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Ep. 403 Being Heartbroken Is Annoying with Alejandro Varela

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Ep. 402 A Reader First, a Cook Second with Samin Nosrat

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Ep. 401 I'm Doing a Little Bit of Everything with Joel Anderson

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Ep. 400 We the Animals by Justin Torres — The Stacks Book Club (Mikey Friedman)

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Unabridged: Meet The Stacks Team

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Ep. 399 Narrative Dignity with Quiara Alegría Hudes

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Ep. 398 Writing Palestine Alive with Sarah Aziza

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Ep. 397 A Book Club in a Weekend with Mikey Friedman

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Ep. 396 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — The Stacks Book Club (Angela Flournoy)

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Unabridged: Behind the Booker Prize with Kiley Reid

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Ep. 395 DIY Fame with Jade Chang

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Ep. 394 Wildfires Are a Systemic Issue with Jordan Thomas

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Ep. 393 A Guilty Man Is More Interesting with John J. Lennon

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Ep. 392 The Ebbs and Flows of Friendship with Angela Flournoy

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Ep. 391 The Lilac People by Milo Todd — The Stacks Book Club (Denne Michele Norris)

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Ep. 390 What Happened in Those 107 Days with Kamala Harris

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Unabridged: A Conversation Between Friends with Jason Reynolds and Hanif Abdurraqib

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Ep. 389 The Resort Is a Microcosm of Society with Cleyvis Natera

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Ep. 388 A Community in Book Form with Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones

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Ep. 387 Full-Time Literary with Denne Michele Norris

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Ep. 386 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Stacks Book Club (Alexis Madrigal)

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Unabridged: The Art of Oral History with Garrett M. Graff

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Ep. 385 A Human Champagne Bubble with Addie E. Citchens

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Ep. 384 Black Genius Is Not an Outlier with Tre Johnson

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Unabridged: Summer Reading Guide Companion Pod with Sara Hildreth

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Ep. 383 Oakland’s Incredible Legacy with Alexis Madrigal

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Ep. 382 God Help the Child by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Dana A. Williams)

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Ep. 381 This Is a True Story with Haley Cohen Gilliland

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Ep. 380 Private Equity Wins, The Community Loses Out with Megan Greenwell

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Unabridged: Plot Twist — LARB Radio Hour Interviews Traci!

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Ep. 379 I Gotta Keep Something Nasty with Mandii B & WeezyWTF

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Ep. 378 I’m Trying to Avoid Toni Morrison with Dana A. Williams

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Ep. 377 The Art Thief by Michael Finkel — The Stacks Book Club (Ceara O’Sullivan)

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Unabridged: A Mid-Year Check-In with Sara Hildreth and Cree Myles

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Ep. 376 People Be Gay with Mia McKenzie

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Ep. 375 The Gospel of the Dispossessed with S. A. Cosby

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Ep. 374 Petty Good or Petty Bad with Ceara O’Sullivan

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Ep. 373 Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley — The Stacks Book Club (Kara Brown)

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Ep. 372 Apropos of Nothing, There’s This Book with Frederick Joseph

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Unabridged: Poptimism in the Age of Beyoncé with Sam Sanders

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Ep. 371 How We Choose Who We Become with Daria Burke

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Ep. 370 Between Oprah and Obama with Kara Brown

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Ep. 369 Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton — The Stacks Book Club (Tiana Clark)

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Ep. 368 The Homelessness Myth Doesn’t Match Reality with Brian Goldstone

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Unabridged: Remaining Human with Kiese Laymon

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Ep. 367 What Does It Mean to Know a Celebrity with Giaae Kwon

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Ep. 366 The Evolution of “Girl Power” with Geri Halliwell-Horner

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Ep. 365 The Poets that Make Me Understand Myself with Tiana Clark

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Ep. 364 They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers — The Stacks Book Club (Tembe Denton-Hurst)

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Unabridged: We’re in a Gender Straitjacket with Emily St. James

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Ep. 363 Gender and Genre Are the Same Word with Torrey Peters

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Ep. 362 Colonialism Is Not an Abstraction with Omar El Akkad

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Ep. 361 Reading Black Writers Gave Me Heritage with Tembe Denton-Hurst

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Ep. 360 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov — The Stacks Book Club (Ira Madison III)

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Ep. 359 It’s Rooted in Our Past with Rebecca Nagle

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Unabridged: Kendrick’s “Great American Game” with David Dennis Jr.

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Ep. 358 The Purpose of Schools with Eve L. Ewing

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Ep. 357 We Love the Tea with Ira Madison III

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Ep. 356 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley — The Stacks Book Club (J Wortham)

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Ep. 355 Scrambling Queer History with Michael Waters

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Bonus Episode: Toni Morrison, Goodness, and What Comes Next with Saeed Jones

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Unabridged: Most Anticipated Books of 2025 with Sara Hildreth and Cree Myles

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Ep. 354 No One Is Begging You to Create with Kaliane Bradley

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Ep. 353 Monuments Are Memories with Irvin Weathersby Jr.

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Ep. 352 No Hierarchy of Legitimacy with J Wortham

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Ep. 351 Tacky by Rax King — The Stacks Book Club (Nora McInerny)

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Unabridged: 2024 Pop Culture Superlatives with Chelsea Devantez & Sam Sanders

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Ep. 350 The Best Books of 2024 with Greta Johnsen & MJ Franklin

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Ep. 349 Testing Humanity with Mosab Abu Toha

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Ep. 348 I Will Always Be a Grief Enthusiast with Nora McInerny

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Unabridged: Nonfiction Book Generator

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Ep. 347 Luster by Raven Leilani — The Stacks Book Club (Justine Kay)

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Ep. 346 Curating Climate Conversations with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

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Ep. 345 The Fear of Vulnerability with Jason Reynolds

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Ep. 344 Unstable Attachment to Realism with Justine Kay

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Ep. 343 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead — The Stacks Book Club (Franklin Leonard)

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Ep. 342 Evangelizing Abortion Rights with Jessica Valenti

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Unabridged: One for the Books with Danzy Senna and Zach Stafford

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Ep. 341 Am I Supposed to Be Here with Jason De León

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Ep. 340 Conspiracy Theories Are Not About the Truth with Jesselyn Cook

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Ep. 339 A Hype Man for the Writing Community with Franklin Leonard

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Ep. 338 Jazz by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Eve Dunbar)

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Unabridged: Queer Icons & Banned Books with George M. Johnson

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Ep. 337 We Love an Ethical Scam with Laci Mosley

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Ep. 336 Blackness Is the Ingredient with Danzy Senna

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Ep. 335 This Thing Called Satisfaction with Eve Dunbar

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Ep. 334 Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo — The Stacks Book Club (Jay Ellis)

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Unabridged: What Makes a Book Cover Pop with Luvvie Ajayi Jones

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Ep. 333 Writing a COVID Novel with Regina Porter

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Ep. 332 For the Black Boys with LaDarrion Williams

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Ep. 331 Imagination, Creativity, and Play with Jay Ellis

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Ep. 330 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler — The Stacks Book Club (Emily Raboteau)

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Ep. 329 What Does It Mean to Be Unseen with Mateo Askaripour

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Unabridged: That New York Times List Discussed and Debated

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Ep. 328 An Impulse to Explore with Adam Higginbotham

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Ep. 327 Lots of Big Nights in Our Future with Katherine Lewin

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Ep. 326 You Can’t Opt Out with Emily Raboteau

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Ep. 325 It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover — The Stacks Book Club (Melissa Mogollon)

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Unabridged: The Performance of Gender with Aaron Jay Young

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Ep. 324 The Psychology of Evil with Akwaeke Emezi

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Ep. 323 You’ve Got to Want Depth with Chelsea Devantez

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Ep. 322 I Think Voicy is Great with Melissa Mogollon

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Ep. 321 No Name in the Street by James Baldwin — The Stacks Book Club (Yahdon Israel)

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Unabridged: The Best Books of 2024…So Far with Cree Myles and Sara Hildreth

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Ep. 320 It’s Really Hard to Change the Patriarchy with Sierra Greer

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Ep. 319 The Vulnerability Is the Point with Carvell Wallace

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Ep. 318 Compassion, Justice, and Anger Are Not Mutually Exclusive with Paula Yoo

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Ep. 317 The Ill Is Not the Outcome with Yahdon Israel

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Ep. 316 The January Children by Safia Elhillo — The Stacks Book Club (Hala Alyan)

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Unabridged: Poetry Therapy

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Ep. 315 Pete Rose: The Great Anti-hero with Keith O'Brien

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Ep. 314 Being Chesty with Andrew Boryga

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Ep. 313 Auditioning for Empathy with Hala Alyan

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Unabridged: Ask Me Anything, Hosted by Mr. Stacks

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Ep. 312 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu -- The Stacks Book Club (Elise Hu)

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Ep. 311 They Say We Die Twice with Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans

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Ep. 310 The Absence of Story with Tommy Orange

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Ep. 309 Chasing Artificial Standards with Elise Hu

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Ep. 308 Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin -- The Stacks Book Club (Uché Blackstock)

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Unabridged: No One Wants to Talk About the Sex with Kiley Reid

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Ep. 307 A Story We Tell Backward with Lauren Markham

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Ep. 306 I Love Our Romance Community with Tia Williams

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Ep. 305 Going from Pet to Threat with Uché Blackstock

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Ep. 304 Erasure by Percival Everett -- The Stacks Book Club (Zach Stafford)

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Unabridged: Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024 with Cree Myles and Sara Hildreth

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Ep. 303 The Culmination of My Psycho-Spiritual Self with Kaveh Akbar

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Ep. 302 We Shouldn't Be Asking You This Question with Carolina Ixta

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Ep. 301 What Makes a Recipe Good with Sohla El-Waylly

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Ep. 300 A Lover of Place with Zach Stafford

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Unabridged: The LA Live Show with Chelsea Devantez, Rachel Lindsay and Sam Sanders

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Ep. 299 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare -- The Stacks Book Club (Farah Karim-Cooper)

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Ep. 298 The Best Books of 2023 with MJ Franklin and Adam Vitcavage

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Ep. 297 It's a Policy of Neglect with Nathan Thrall

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Unabridged: The NYC Late Show with Kiese Laymon

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Ep. 296 Gatekeeping Around Shakespeare with Farah Karim-Cooper

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Ep. 295 Severance by Ling Ma -- The Stacks Book Club (Mitchell S. Jackson)

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Unabridged: The NYC Early Show with Kiese Laymon

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Ep. 294 People Just Have Never Seen It with Ali Stroker

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Ep. 293 Progress Is not Linear with Beto O'Rourke

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Ep. 292 Writing Toward Beauty with Jesmyn Ward

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Ep. 291 I've Never Read for Pleasure with Mitchell S. Jackson

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Ep. 290 Tar Baby by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (Minda Honey)

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Unabridged: The DC Live Show with Jason Reynolds

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Ep. 289 Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves with Oliver Jeffers

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Ep. 288 Just Presenting the Facts with Michael Harriot

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Ep. 287 Ending Racism with Minda Honey

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Ep. 286 Monsters by Claire Dederer -- The Stacks Book Club (Brittany Luse)

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Ep. 285 A Page Is Not Wild with Myriam Gurba

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Unabridged: The Chicago Live Show with Samantha Irby

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Ep. 284 Romance and Politics with Stacey Abrams

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Ep. 283 The Curiosity Never Ends with Brittany Luse

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Introducing: Vibe Check with Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford

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Ep. 282 You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi -- The Stacks Book Club (Sam Sanders)

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Unabridged: The Oakland Live Show with Leila Mottley

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Ep. 281 The Characters Came Quickly with Jennifer Baker

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Ep. 280 Blind Thought with Andrew Leland

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Ep. 279 Inaction Is a Form of Police Brutality with Nora Neus

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Ep. 278 We're Giving Him Drugs with Sam Sanders

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Unabridged: Talking HBO's Watchmen Series with David Dennis Jr.

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Ep. 277 Watchmen by Alan Moore -- The Stacks Book Club (Joel Christian Gill)

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Ep. 276 How We Keep Each Other Alive with Donovan X. Ramsey

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Ep. 275 We're on the Extreme Side with Ricardo Nuila

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Ep. 274 Comics Is a Medium Not a Genre with Joel Christian Gill

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Unabridged: I'm a New Bitch Every Month with Jamilah Mapp and Erica Dickerson

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Ep. 273 Oreo by Fran Ross -- The Stacks Book Club (Hannah Oliver Depp)

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Ep. 272 Cold Butter and Cold Emails with Stacey Mei Yan Fong

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Ep. 271 The Paradox of Visibility with Tre'vell Anderson

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Ep. 270 My Whole Self Is Here with Hannah Oliver Depp

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

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

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Ep. 268 Over Burdened and Under Funded by Roxanna Asgarian

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Ep. 267 The Pull to Make Art with Vashti Harrison

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

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Ep. 265 Deep Comfort Reads with Nicole Chung

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

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

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Ep. 262 Joy, Surprise, and Uplift with Ari Shapiro

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Ep. 261 All at Once with Clint Smith

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Ep. 260 Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay -- The Stacks Book Club (Shanita Hubbard)

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Ep. 259 How Innocent Are They with Joseph Earl Thomas

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Ep. 258 Long-Suffering Basketball Fans with José Olivarez

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Ep. 257 The Hardest Book I Had to Write with Carol Anderson

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Ep. 256 Centering Us with Shanita Hubbard

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Ep. 255 The Round House by Louise Erdrich -- The Stacks Book Club (Mina Kimes)

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Ep. 254 Heartbreak is Pivotal to Romance with Camonghne Felix

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Ep. 253 I Tend to Write About It with Lamya H.

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Ep. 252 Begging to Go to the Library with Mina Kimes

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Ep. 251 The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey -- The Stacks Book Club (Chelsea Devantez)

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Ep. 250 A Litany of Abuses with Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham

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Ep. 249 The Vibe is Really Gnarly with Aubrey Gordon

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Ep. 248 For the Love of Celebrity Memoirs with Chelsea Devantez

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Ep. 247 True Biz by Sara Nović -- The Stacks Book Club (Greta Johnsen)

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Ep. 246 The Best Books of 2022 with Andrew Limbong

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Ep. 245 The Worst Moments of His Life with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

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Ep. 244 Relentlessly Positive with Greta Johnsen

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Ep. 243 Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law -- The Stacks Book Club (Mariame Kaba)

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Ep. 242 Lurching from Disaster to Disaster with Steven W. Thrasher

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Ep. 241 Names on Top of Names on Top of Names with Jonathan Abrams

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Ep. 240 Hold the Powers that Be Accountable with Jemele Hill

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Ep. 239 The Purpose of a System Is What It Does with Mariame Kaba

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Ep. 238 Fairest by Meredith Talusan -- The Stacks Book Club (Anthony Christian Ocampo)

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Ep. 237 Girl Fear with Kamila Shamsie

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Ep. 236 I Thought I Was the Problem with Brandon Kyle Goodman

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Ep. 235 Filipinx Literary Renaissance with Anthony Christian Ocampo

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Ep. 234 The Trees by Percival Everett -- The Stacks Book Club (Lisa Lucas)

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Ep. 233 A Grieving Apocalyptic Historian with Saeed Jones

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Ep. 232 What Should the Rules Be with Andrea Elliott

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Ep. 231 At the End of Every Day There's a Book with Lisa Lucas

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Ep. 230 How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee -- The Stacks Book Club (Ingrid Rojas Contreras)

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Ep. 229 Destabilizing Whiteness with Mohsin Hamid

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Ep. 228 Grief is Love with Marisa Renee Lee

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Ep. 227 Funny but Not F*cking Around with W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz

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Ep. 226 A Literal Relationship with the Past with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

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Ep. 225 Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih--The Stacks Book Club (Elamin Abdelmahmoud)

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Ep. 224 Writing with Duende with Erika L. Sánchez

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Ep. 223 Our Existence as Protest with Caleb Gayle

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Ep. 222 Living in Between with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

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Ep. 221 White Negroes by Lauren Michele Jackson -- The Stacks Book Club (David Dennis Jr.)

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Ep. 220 Spread Love It's the Brooklyn Way with Justin Tinsley

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Ep. 219 Genre Redlining with Leila Mottley

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Ep. 218 Hungry for History with Michael Eric Dyson

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Ep. 217 Surviving in the Face of Death with David Dennis Jr.

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Ep. 216 Shine Bright by Danyel Smith - The Stacks Book Club (Novena Carmel)

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Ep. 215 It's Kind of Wonderful, but it's Kind of Awful with Danyel Smith

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Ep. 214 How You Look and How You Feel Have to Meet with Van Lathan Jr.

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Ep. 213 Curating a Vibe with Novena Carmel

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Ep. 212 Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston - The Stacks Book Club (Nate Marshall)

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Ep. 211 A Radical Shift with Julie Otsuka

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Ep. 210 A Warm Hug with Danny Pellegrino

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Ep. 209 A Poem is About Wonder with Nate Marshall

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Ep. 208 A Mercy by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (Imani Perry)

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Ep. 207 Breaking Through the Black/White Binary with Julissa Arce

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Ep. 206 Who Are You Loving When You Write with Destiny O. Birdsong

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Ep. 205 Finding Ways to Heal with Stephanie Foo

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Ep. 204 A Journey South with Imani Perry

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Ep. 203 I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue -- The Stacks Book Club (Tessa Miller)

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Ep. 202 Even the Bachelorette Gets Insecure with Rachel Lindsay

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Day 5 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Kiese Laymon

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Day 4 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Timya Wright and Azar Nafisi

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Day 3 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Ghazala Hashmi and Hannah Oliver Depp

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Day 2 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Alison Bechdel and Kelsey Reynolds

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Day 1 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Katrina Stokes and Thursday Williams

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Ep. 201 The Language of Chronic Illness with Tessa Miller

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Ep. 200 Passing by Nella Larsen -- The Stacks Book Club (Cree Myles)

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Ep. 199 A Tapestry of Microaggressions with Kendra James

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Ep. 198 We'll Be Okay with Jason Reynolds

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Ep. 197 All Ways Black, Always with Cree Myles

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Ep. 196 A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib -- The Stacks Book Club (Andrew Ti)

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Ep. 195 The Best Books of 2021 with Lupita Aquino and Morgan Hoit

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Ep. 194 How We Understand Loneliness with Kristen Radtke

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Ep. 193 Betting on the Kids with Angelina Jolie and Tokata Iron Eyes

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Ep. 192 Yo, Is This Racist with Andrew Ti

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Ep. 191 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (Dawnie Walton)

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Ep. 190 Getting Cultish with Amanda Montell

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Ep. 189 Embracing Rage with Myisha Cherry

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Ep. 188 Creating an Icon with Dawnie Walton
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Ep. 187 Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan -- The Stacks Book Club (Nichole Perkins)

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Ep. 186 We Need Better Voices with Danté Stewart

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Ep. 185 Abolition for the People with Bree Newsome Bass Kiese Laymon

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Ep. 184 The Desire Advocate Is In with Nichole Perkins

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Ep. 183 Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson -- The Stacks Book Club (Derecka Purnell)

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Ep. 182 Athletes and Activism with Dave Zirin

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Ep. 181 We Don't Have to Agree with Jill Louise Busby

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Ep. 180 Fifty Years After Attica with Heather Ann Thompson

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Ep. 179 Imagining Better with Derecka Purnell

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Ep. 178 Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi -- The Stacks Book Club (Juliet Litman)

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Ep. 177 Defining the American Dream with Roger Bennett

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Ep. 176 Leaving a Record of History with Adam Serwer

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Ep. 175 Chatty Books with Juliet Litman

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Ep. 174 The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui -- The Stacks Book Club (Mira Jacob)

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Ep. 173 Living with Less with Christine Platt

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Ep. 172 The Art vs. The Artist with Quentin Tarantino

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Ep. 171 Trusting in Optimism with Mira Jacob

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Ep. 170 The Undying by Anne Boyer -- The Stacks Book Club (Mychal Denzel Smith)

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Ep. 169 Defining Love for Ourselves with Ashley C. Ford

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Ep. 168 Embodying History with Clint Smith

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Ep. 167 Disrupting the Systems that Cage Us with Marlon Peterson

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Ep. 166 Who Do We Want to Be with Mychal Denzel Smith

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Ep. 165 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy -- The Stacks Book Club (Jenny Lee)

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Ep. 164 Breaking a Story with Patrick Radden Keefe

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Ep. 163 Pushing the Boundaries of Understanding with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Ep. 162 Adapting a Classic with Jenny Lee

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Ep. 161 The Tradition by Jericho Brown -- The Stacks Book Club (Reginald Dwayne Betts)

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Ep. 160 Black People Doing Spectacular Things with Hanif Abdurraqib

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Ep. 159 Surviving the White Gaze with Rebecca Carroll

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Ep. 158 Reaching for Answers with Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Ep. 157 Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh -- The Stacks Book Club (Nic Stone)

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Ep. 156 Pursuing a Passion with Brandon Hobson

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Ep. 155 The Art of the Crush with Mary H.K. Choi

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Ep. 154 Representation in Kink with R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell

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Ep. 153 Breaking Down Standards with Nic Stone

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Ep. 152 The New Wilderness by Diane Cook -- The Stacks Book Club (Vann Newkirk)

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Ep. 151 Truth and Satire with Mateo Askaripour

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Ep. 150 An Invitation to History with Keisha N. Blain

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Ep. 149 A Bias Toward Justice with Vann Newkirk

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

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Ep. 147 Crafting a Collection with Danielle Evans

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Ep. 146 Integrity in Collaboration with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham

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Ep. 145 Measuring Success with Deesha Philyaw

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Ep. 144 Citizen by Claudia Rankine -- The Stacks Book Club (Darnell Moore)

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Ep. 143 The Best of 2020 with Christine Bollow and Oscar Almonte-Espinal

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Ep. 142 Sparking Creativity with Arianna Davis

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Ep. 141 White Male Mediocrity with Ijeoma Oluo

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Ep. 140 Radical Black Love with Darnell Moore

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Ep. 139 The Butterfly Effect by Marcus J. Moore -- The Stacks Book Club (Cole Cuchna)

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Ep. 138 Celebrating Black Artists with Marcus J. Moore

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Ep. 137 Specificity in Storytelling with Yaa Gyasi

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Ep. 136 Dissecting with Cole Cuchna

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Ep. 135 The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley--The Stacks Book Club (Marc Lamont Hill)

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Ep. 134 The Stacks Election Special with Akilah Hughes

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Ep. 133 Stacks on Stacks with Desus and Mero

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Ep. 132 Coffee & Books with Marc Lamont Hill

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Ep. 131 The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio -- The Stacks Book Club (Lupita Aquino)

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Ep. 130 The Politics of Sex with Angela Chen

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Ep. 129 The Myth of Strength with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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Ep. 128 Big Friendships with Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

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Ep. 127 Crushes and Controversy with Lupita Aquino

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Ep. 126 Sula by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (Brit Bennett)

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Ep. 125 Wandering and Wondering with Morgan Jerkins

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Ep. 124 Finding Your Future Self with Liara Tamani

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Ep. 123 Complication and Imagination with Brit Bennett

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

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Ep. 121 Reading with Mr. & Mrs. Stacks
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Ep. 120 Everyone Can Do Something with Meena Harris

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Ep. 119 All About the Drive with James McBride

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Ep. 118 Living the Revision with Kiese Laymon

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Ep. 117 Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe -- The Stacks Book Club (Emma Copley Eisenberg)

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Ep. 116 White Fragility with The Lady Gang - Part 2

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Ep. 115 Heroes Walk Among Us with Bakari Sellers

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Ep. 114 Both, And with Emma Copley Eisenberg

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Ep. 113 The Giver by Lois Lowry -- The Stacks Book Club (Sue Thomas)

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Ep. 112 R. Eric Thomas//Here for It

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Ep. 111 Ethan Strauss//The Victory Machine

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Ep. 110 Like Mother Like Daughter with Sue Thomas

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Ep. 109 Trust Exercise by Susan Choi -- The Stacks Book Club (Brandon Taylor)

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Ep. 108 Priya Parker on Meaningful Gatherings in the Time of Corona

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Ep. 107 Abi Daré//The Girl with the Louding Voice

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Ep. 106 Samantha Irby//Wow, No Thank You

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EP. 105 The Union of Science and Art with Brandon Taylor

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Ep. 104 So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson -- The Stacks Book Club (Gigi Levangie)

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Ep. 103 An Outsider in Hollywood with Gigi Levangie

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Ep. 102 Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde -- The Stacks Book Club (Asha Grant)

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Ep. 101 Reading Black Women with Asha Grant

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Ep. 100 Three Women by Lisa Taddeo -- The Stacks Book Club (August McLaughlin)

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Ep. 99 Getting a Girl Boner with August McLaughlin

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Ep. 98 The Hating Game by Sally Thorne -- The Stacks Book Club (Leah Koch)

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Ep. 97 A Little Romance with Leah Koch of The Ripped Bodice

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Ep. 96 Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino -- The Stacks Book Club (Jordan Moblo)

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Ep. 95 Keeping it Positive with Jordan Moblo

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Ep. 94 Cribsheet by Emily Oster -- The Stacks Book Club (Jenna Parris)

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Ep. 93 Becoming a Mom with Jenna Parris

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Ep. 92 Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li -- The Stacks Book Club (Vanessa Hua)

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The Short Stacks 29: The Best of 2019//Lauren Fanella

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Ep. 91 The People Who Change Us with Vanessa Hua

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Ep. 90 Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson -- The Stacks Book Club (Jason Reynolds)

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The Short Stacks 28: Jacqueline Woodson//Red at the Bone

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Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds

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Ep. 88 Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli -- The Stacks Book Club (Ayser Salman)

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The Short Stacks 27: Shea Serrano//Movies (and Other Things)

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Ep. 87 Finding a Seat at the Table with Ayser Salman

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Ep. 86 Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat -- The Stacks Book Club (Hugh Garvey)

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The Short Stacks 26: Jami Attenberg//All This Could Be Yours

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Ep. 85 Recipes Have a Happy Ending with Hugh Garvey

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Ep. 84 We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin -- The Stacks Book Club (Chris L. Terry)

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The Short Stacks 25: Maurice Carlos Ruffin//We Cast a Shadow

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Ep. 83 What is "Black Enough" with Chris L. Terry

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Ep. 82 Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen -- The Stacks Book Club (Jac Vanek))

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The Short Stacks 24: Chloe Benjamin//The Immortalists

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Ep. 81 Writing in Books with Jac Vanek

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Ep. 80 The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin -- The Stacks Book Club (Jenna Ushkowitz)

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The Short Stacks 23: Tressie McMillan Cottom//Thick

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Ep. 79 When Reading Doesn't Feel Like Work with Jenna Ushkowitz

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Ep. 78 Educated by Tara Westover--The Stacks Book Club (Sarah Enni)

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The Short Stacks 22: Ibram X. Kendi//How to be an Antiracist
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Ep. 77 It's OK to Hate a Book with Sarah Enni

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Ep. 76 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Stacks Book Club (Clark Moore)

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The Short Stacks 21: Garrett M. Graff//The Only Plane in the Sky

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Ep. 75 Embracing Queer and Colorful Stories with Clark Moore

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Ep. 74 The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington--The Stacks Book Club (Allison Punch)

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The Short Stacks 20: Kim Brooks//Small Animals

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Ep. 73 Reading with Purpose with Allison Punch

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Ep. 72 The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander -- The Stacks Book Club (Dani McClain)
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The Short Stacks 19: Ramin Setoodeh//Ladies Who Punch

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Ep. 71 Mothering and Social Justice with Dani McClain

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Ep. 70 WorkParty by Jaclyn Johnson--The Stacks Book Club (Calli Cholodenko)

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The Short Stacks 18: Bianca Marais//If You Want to Make God Laugh

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Ep. 69 Getting Social with Calli Cholodenko

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Ep. 68 Miracle Creek by Angie Kim -- The Stacks Book Club (Rachel Overvoll)

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The Short Stacks 17: Radley Balko//The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

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Ep. 67 Finding Feminism with Rachel Overvoll

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Ep. 66 Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson -- The Stacks Book Club (Dave Cullen)

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The Short Stacks 16: Angie Kim//Miracle Creek

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Ep. 65 Crafting a Compelling Narrative with Dave Cullen

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Ep. 64 The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams -- The Stacks Book Club (Lori Gottlieb)

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The Short Stacks 15: Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin//How We Fight White Supremacy

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Ep. 63 The Love of Therapy with Lori Gottlieb

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Ep. 62 Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler -- The Stacks Book Club (Joseph Papa)

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The Short Stacks 14: Etaf Rum//A Woman is No Man

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Ep. 61 The Publicizing of Books with Joseph Papa

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Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)

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The Short Stacks 13: Robert W. Fieseler//Tinderbox

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Ep. 59 Chasing Perfection with DaMaris B. Hill

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Ep. 58 Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed -- The Stacks Book Club (Keltie Knight)
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The Short Stacks 12: Damon Young//What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

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Ep. 57 Being a Boss with Keltie Knight

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Ep. 56 Wild Beauty by Ntozake Shange — The Stacks Book Club (Gabrielle Civil)
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The Short Stacks 11: Miriam Toews//Women Talking
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Ep. 55 The Art of Performance with Gabrielle Civil
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Ep. 54 The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois — The Stacks Book Club (Ben Blacker)
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The Short Stacks 10: Bryan Washington//Lot
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Ep. 53 Writing is Writing with Ben Blacker
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Ep. 52 I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid — The Stacks Book Club (Niccole Thurman)
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The Short Stacks 9: Isaac Butler//The World Only Spins Forward
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Ep. 51 Satire and Creative Outlets with Niccole Thurman
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Ep. 50 Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister — The Stacks Book Club (James J. Sexton)
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The Short Stacks 8: Lacy M. Johnson//The Reckonings
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Ep. 49 Relationships and Recommendations with James Sexton
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Ep. 48 Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah — The Stacks Book Club (Wade Allain-Marcus)
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The Short Stacks 7: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah//Friday Black
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Ep. 47 Reading, Writing, and Representation with Wade Allain-Marcus
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Ep. 46 All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung — The Stacks Book Club (Vanessa McGrady)
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The Short Stacks 6: Nicole Chung//All You Can Ever Know
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Ep. 45 Vanessa McGrady on Adoption and Memoirs
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Ep. 44 Rap Dad by Juan Vidal — The Stacks Books Club (Josh Segarra)
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The Short Stacks 5: Anita Devlin//S.O.B.E.R.
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Ep. 43 Life as an Actor with Josh Segarra
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Ep. 42 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie — The Stacks Book Club (Tawny Newsome)
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The Short Stacks 4: Juan Vidal//Rap Dad
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Ep. 41 Comedy, Race, Travel and Books with Tawny Newsome
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Ep. 40 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz — The Stacks Book Club (Alec Penix)
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The Short Stacks 3: Best of 2018//Lauren Fanella
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Ep. 39 Connecting Mind, Body, and Spirit with Alec Penix
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Ep. 38 Open City by Teju Cole — The Stacks Book Club (Behzad Dabu)
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The Short Stacks 2 – Jesse Byrd//Real Jungle Tales
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Ep. 37 Representation, Basketball, and Books with Behzad Dabu
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Ep. 36 If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim — The Stacks Book Club (Aja Gabel)
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The Short Stacks 1: Crystal Hana Kim//If You Leave Me
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Ep. 35 Prodigies, Time Machines, and Beautiful Writing with Aja Gabel
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Ep. 34 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Renée Hicks)
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Ep. 33 Book Girl Magic with Renee Hicks
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Ep. 32 To The Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann — The Stacks Book Club (Heather John Fogarty)
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Ep. 31 All the Book Recommendations with Heather John Fogarty
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Ep. 30 How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt — The Stacks Book Club (Harris Cohn)
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Ep. 29 Politics, Midterms, and Voting (oh, my) with Harris Cohn
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Ep. 28 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou — The Stacks Book Club (Nancy Rommelmann)
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Ep. 27 Talking Investigative Journalism with Nancy Rommelmann
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Ep. 26 Less by Andrew Sean Greer — The Stacks Book Club (Zeke Smith)
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Ep. 25 Talking Fame and Identity with Zeke Smith
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Ep. 24 Motherhood by Sheila Heti — The Stacks Book Club (Jo Piazza)
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Ep. 23 Talking Women in Politics with Jo Piazza
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Ep. 22 The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner — The Stacks Book Club (Becca Tobin)
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Ep. 21 Talking Fiction & Hollywood with Becca Tobin
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Ep. 20 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates — The Stacks Book Club (Jay Connor)
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Ep. 19 Extraordinary Reading with Jay Connor of The Extraordinary Negroes

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Ep. 18 Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes — The Stacks Book Club (Ashley North)
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Ep. 17 Talking Fashion and Reading with Stylist Ashley North
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Ep. 16 Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore — The Stacks Book Club (Lauren Fanella)
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Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella
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Ep. 14 The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg — The Stacks Book Club (Ross Asdourian)
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Ep. 13 Writing Your Book with Ross Asdourian
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Ep. 12 How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer — The Stacks Book Club (Aaron Dolores)
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Ep 11. Talking Books and Soccer with Aaron Dolores Founder of Black Arrow FC
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Ep. 10 New Boy by Tracy Chevalier — The Stacks Book Club (Vella Lovell)
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Ep. 9 Talking Books with Vella Lovell
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Ep. 8 Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth — The Stacks Book Club (Sam Pinkleton)
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Ep. 7 Talking Books with Sam Pinkleton

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Ep. 6 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin — The Stacks Book Club (Chris Maddox)

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Ep. 5 Talking Books with Chris Maddox

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Ep. 4 Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward — The Stacks Book Club (Sarah Fong)
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Ep. 3 Talking Books with Sarah Fong

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Ep. 2 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid — The Stacks Book Club (Dallas Lopez)

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Ep. 1 Talking Books with Dallas Lopez

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The Stacks Podcast — Coming April 4th