Ep. 137 Specificity in Storytelling with Yaa Gyasi

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is award winning novelist Yaa Gyasi. here to discuss her new novel Transcendent Kingdom. Our conversation touches on the challenges to writing a follow up to her critically acclaimed debut Homegoing, how she gave herself permission to write about small intimate stories this time around, and the ways research has factored into her process as a storyteller.

The Stacks Book Club selection for November is The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore, we will discuss the book with Cole Cuchna on November 25th.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.
0:11.3	I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today I could not be more thrilled to welcome author Ja
0:13.5	Jesse.
0:17.5	Yeah's debut novel, Homegoing was a bestseller
0:20.9	and a book that folks are still talking about and still loving.
0:24.8	And now Yaw is back with her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, which we will talk about
0:29.5	today, spoiler free.
0:31.5	I do have a huge announcement. It's finally here. The Stacks has
0:36.4	merch. That's right. We finally have apparel so you can rep your favorite bookish
0:41.1	podcast out in the world. I do have to say a huge
0:44.2	thank you to Jack Vanick because she helped me create the Stax March and it looks
0:49.2	amazing I'm obsessed with it and I know you will be too so head to our website the Stax Podcast to check out our merch or just click the link in the show notes
0:57.6	For the month of November I'm saying an extra special humongous thank you to the Stax Pack
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1:07.9	perks like our virtual book club and now they get discounts to the Stax March.
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1:16.7	I'd also like to say a thank you to the newest members
1:19.1	of the Stacks Pack, Grace, Katie Trombitas, Sheila Davis, Hannah Doin Williams, Becky Skinner, MD, Derek Contreras, and Angie
1:29.5	Salum.
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