Ep. 174 The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui -- The Stacks Book Club (Mira Jacob)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It’s The Stacks Book Club day and we’re discussing our first ever graphic memoir on the show. The book is The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui, and our guest is graphic memoirist (Good Talk), novelist (The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing), and cultural critic, Mira Jacob. We talk today about the moment that a good book makes the reader examine themselves, books that don’t feel like reading, and the distillation of history for the sake of narrative.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host Tracey Thomas. |
| 0:13.3 | It's the Stacks Book Club day, and we are discussing our very first graphic memoir |
| 0:19.2 | on the show. |
| 0:20.2 | The book is the best we could do by T. Booey and our guest to help us break down this |
| 0:24.0 | book is herself, the author of a critically acclaimed graphic memoir, Good Talk. |
| 0:28.9 | She is also a novelist and cultural critic. |
| 0:31.4 | It is the brilliant Mira Jacob. |
| 0:34.2 | Our conversation focuses on history, family, and the permissions we are given from our parents. |
| 0:40.3 | There are no spoilers on today's episode. |
| 0:43.2 | Please be sure to listen to the end of the episode to find out what our August book club |
| 0:47.0 | pick will be. |
| 0:48.4 | If you love the show and want to support my work in creating it every single week, please |
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| 0:55.2 | You earn perks like our monthly book club where we discuss the Stacks book club picks |
| 0:58.8 | in detail and get shout outs on the show and more. |
| 1:02.3 | Plus, you earn my undying gratitude because your monthly contribution makes the show possible. |
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| 1:22.9 | Now, a little thank you to our newest members. |
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