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

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It's The Stacks Book Club day! On today's episode we are joined again by author Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) to discuss The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans. We go through each story in the collection and talk about our favorite parts, white innocence, and specificity in storytelling.

There are spoilers on this episode.

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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. It's the Stacks Book Club day. We're discussing
0:16.6	the Office of Historical Corrections by Daniel Evans this week in detail, which is code for, yes, there are spoilers today.
0:25.1	Our guest is National Book Award finalists Disha Fillia, author of The Secret Lives of Church
0:30.4	Ladies.
0:31.4	Today we're diving deep into this story collection so if you haven't read the book yet listen at your own risk. I also want to take a moment to congratulate both Disha and Danielle for their collections being finalists for the story prize. In case you missed it last
0:44.7	week Daniel Evans was our guest on the podcast to discuss the Office of Historical Corrections
0:49.2	without spoilers, so that's a perfect listen for anyone who hasn't quite finished the book yet.
0:54.7	Be sure to listen until the end of today's episode to find out our book club pick for February.
1:00.3	If you want more discussion around the Office of Historical Corrections and all of our book club picks,
1:04.4	consider joining the stacks on Patreon. Patreon is a website where you can contribute monthly to help me make this show.
1:10.8	In exchange for your generosity, you earn perks like our virtual book club, which is to say once a month I will
1:16.3	hop on a video chat with you and other members of the Stax Pack and discuss the Stax Book Club pick. We talk about the book in detail and discuss conversations
1:24.8	that come up on the podcast. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in
1:28.4	head to patreon.com slash the Stacks and join us. shout out to some of our newest members of the Stacks Pack,
1:35.5	Christie Mandeville, Jenna, Ranaa Diamond,
1:39.8	Naina Odoluga, Ashton Ballard, Cremiles, Alexandra Endegwa, Rennebaum, Brittany, Iana Close, and Amber.
1:49.9	Thank you all so so much for continuing to show the Stax Love, there would be no show without the Stacks
1:54.6	pack. If you want to join, please head to Patreon.com slash the Stacks.
1:59.1	Okay, now it's time for the Stacks Book Club conversation of the Office of Historical Corrections with Disha Villayor.
2:07.0	All right, everybody, I am back again with the author and wonderful all around
2:16.3	human, Disha Philia. We're talking about the Office of Historical
2:20.9	Corrections by Daniel Evans for the Stacks Book Club today.
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