Ep. 170 The Undying by Anne Boyer -- The Stacks Book Club (Mychal Denzel Smith)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for another installment of The Stacks Book Club. This month we’re discussing The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer with Mychal Denzel Smith (Stakes is High). Our conversation explores the commodification of cancer, the ways sexism is entrenched in the language of breast cancer, and how form and content can work together and fight against one another in the same text.
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and it is the Stacks Book Club Day. |
| 0:42.6 | The wonderful Michael Denzel Smith author of Stakes is High is back to help us break down |
| 0:47.1 | our June Book Club pick. |
| 0:49.2 | It's the Undying and Meditation on Modern Illness by Ann Boyer. |
| 0:53.0 | We talk today about the cancer industrial complex, the sexism associated with breast cancer, |
| 0:58.8 | and the ways that forming content can work together or be at odds with one another in storytelling. |
| 1:04.5 | There are no spoilers on today's episode. |
| 1:06.9 | Be sure to listen all the way until the end of the show to hear our July Book Club pick. |
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