Ep. 147 Crafting a Collection with Danielle Evans

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is Danielle Evans, author of The Stacks January Book Club selection, The Office of Historical Corrections. We discuss this incredible short story collection, spoiler free. We also discuss finding themes in a collection, and the ways Evans approaches writing white characters, plus how she came to understand she wanted to be a writer.

There are no spoilers on this episode.

The Stacks Book Club selection for January is The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans, we will discuss the book with Deesha Philyaw on January 27th.

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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
0:12.0	Tracy Thomas. Our guest today is
0:14.1	Daniel Evans, author of our January book club pick, The Office of Historical
0:18.4	Corrections. We talk with Danielle about her incredible collection,
0:21.8	completely spoiler free.
0:24.6	So if you haven't finished the book yet,
0:26.3	don't worry, no spoilers.
0:29.0	We're just trying to get you excited
0:30.6	about next week's in-depth discussion with Disha Philia. If you want even
0:36.1	more discussion around the Office of Historical Corrections and all of our book club
0:39.8	picks, consider joining the Stacks on Patreon. That's a website where you can contribute
0:44.0	monthly to help me make this show. In exchange for your generosity, you earn perks
0:48.4	like our virtual book club. Once a month I get on a video chat with other
0:52.4	members of the Stax Pack and we discuss the book and the episode in more detail
0:58.6	If that sounds like something you'd be into head to patreon.com slash the Stacks and join the Stacks Pack.
1:05.0	And here's a little shout out to some of our newest members. Heather O'Rourke,
1:09.2	Kira Nelson, Colleen, Dinah Colbreath, T.A. Ellen Wenecke, Liz, Heather, Grace Wheel, and Erica Smith. Thank you all so much again
1:22.2	for your support. I really could not make the show without you.
1:25.2	All right, now it's time for my spoiler am here today with Daniel Evans. She is the author of The Stacks January
1:40.8	Book Club Pick, the Office of Historical Corrections.
1:43.5	Danielle, oh my gosh, thank you so much for being here.
1:47.1	Thank you so much for having me.
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