Ep. 144 Citizen by Claudia Rankine -- The Stacks Book Club (Darnell Moore)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
It’s The Stacks Book Club day, and we’re joined again by author (No Ashes in the Fire), activist, and podcaster (Being Seen), Darnell Moore to dissect Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. We talk about how the book, published in 2014 holds up, who gets to express rage and joy, and what Rankine forces her readers to reckon with throughout the book.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today is our final episode of 2020. |
| 0:17.0 | It's the Stax Book Club conversation of Citizen and American Lyric by Claudia Rankin. We've brought back author, activist, and podcaster |
| 0:26.5 | Darnell Moore to help us dissect this book of poetry, essays, and art. There are no spoilers on today's episode and be sure to listen all the way to the end today |
| 0:36.2 | to hear our pick for the Stax Book Club January 2021 read. |
| 0:41.9 | If you're looking for a way to support this podcast, consider joining the Stax Pack on Patreon. |
| 0:46.0 | That's a group of folks who contribute monthly and earn perks like our virtual book club, discounts on |
| 0:50.9 | merch, and more. They make this show possible and without them there would be no |
| 0:54.9 | the stacks. If you love Citizen and want to discuss this book with a group of other book |
| 0:59.8 | nerds join the stacks pack by going to to Patreon.com slash the Stax. |
| 1:05.0 | This week I'm shouting out some of our newest members of the Stax Pack. |
| 1:08.0 | Anne Marie Vourbach, Andrea Hall, Erica Wilhite, Carmen Martinez, |
| 1:15.0 | Paola Munoz, Mickey Miller, Christina Laboe, |
| 1:18.5 | Alicia, Karen Kipper, and Madison. |
| 1:21.4 | Thank you all so much. All right now let's get to this conversation |
| 1:25.1 | with Darnal more about Citizen by Claudia Rankin. |
| 1:30.3 | All right everybody I am back again. It is December, the Stax Book Club Day. |
| 1:37.7 | I am joined by the wonderful Darnell Moore, and we are discussing Citizen and American Lyric by Claudia Rankin. |
| 1:45.0 | Darnell, welcome back to the facts. |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be back. I'm really excited that you're here and |
| 1:51.6 | I'm really excited to talk about this book for a |
| 1:54.3 | lot of reasons which we can get into but we always start with what did you think of |
| 2:00.4 | the book and if you've read the book multiple times or anything like that, |
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