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

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today for The Stacks Book Club, we are talking cancel culture and social media as we examine Jon Ronson's book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed. Back to discuss this book with us is author (Been There, Married That) and screenwriter, Gigi Levangie. We ask questions about consent, power dynamics, and fame and how these elements play into public shamings.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.
0:11.8	I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today we are
0:13.6	discussing so you've been publicly shamed by John Ronson for the Stacks Book Club.
0:17.8	The book is an examination of public shimmings on social media and the early days of
0:22.0	what we now call
0:23.2	Gantil culture.
0:24.4	We're discussing the book with author and screenwriter
0:26.5	G. G. Leavange, and today's episode is spoiler free.
0:29.9	Next week starts our third season of the Stacks
0:32.0	and we're going to be shaking up things around here.
0:33.8	So I will save a lot of the details for next week,
0:36.3	but I wanted to give everyone who's listening now
0:38.2	a heads up.
0:38.9	Our April book for the Stax Book Club
0:40.8	is the National Book Award winning Trust Exercise by Susan Choi and
0:44.8	we'll be discussing that book on April 29th. More details to come. To stay up to
0:50.4	date on all things the Stacks including exciting announcements and what's coming
0:53.2	for our third season. Make sure you're following the stacks on social media.
0:56.6	At the stacks pod on Instagram and at the stacks pod underscore on Twitter.
1:00.6	As you're all well aware, the coronavirus has really changed the landscape for so many industries.
1:04.8	In an effort to support authors, publishers, and independent bookstores,
1:08.0	we've launched a little thing I'm calling the Stax Correntur.
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