Ep. 188 Creating an Icon with Dawnie Walton
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is journalist and editor Dawnie Walton, she is the debut author behind one of this year's most talked about novels, The Final Revival of Opal and Nev. Dawnie shares her research process, how oral histories can elevate fictional characters, and the rock stars that inspired her own rock icon.
You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/11/03/ep-188-dawnie-walton
The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, we will discuss the book on November 24th with Dawnie Walton.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left |
| 0:08.5 | Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show |
| 0:16.2 | We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsey. Yes, that Rachel Lindsey the first black bachelor at also |
| 0:22.2 | She is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being |
| 0:26.4 | We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and |
| 0:33.7 | The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer, comedian director and of course the host of |
| 0:42.6 | Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast |
| 0:46.6 | We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club |
| 0:52.6 | One of my favorite bookstores here in LA is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams |
| 0:57.8 | It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out |
| 1:14.7 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them |
| 1:17.9 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas one of my favorite novels this year is the final revival of Opal and Ed a fictionalized oral history of a rock duo from the |
| 1:26.4 | 70s and our guest today is the author of this book Donnie Walton in addition to being a debut author Donnie is also a journalist and editor who |
| 1:35.5 | Focuses on the intersections of identity place and pop culture all of which we talk about today |
| 1:41.9 | The stacks book club pick for November is song of Solomon by Tony Morrison |
| 1:45.9 | We will be discussing the book on our show on Wednesday November 24th with Donnie Walton |
| 1:50.7 | If you're looking for even more from the stacks you can check us out on patreon to get bonus episodes |
| 1:56.0 | Discounts on merch and the stacks virtual book club plus a lot more plus anyone who joins by the end of November |
| 2:03.1 | 2021 gets the stacks official reading tracker for 2022 for more information head to patreon dot com slash the stacks and |
| 2:10.6 | I want to take a quick moment to thank our latest members of the stacks pack |
| 2:14.5 | Rahima Brewa AP Lashana Quinn McNutt Brit Rebecca Diane Brown Marley Osma de Forest |
| 2:23.0 | Jillian Wooten and CC I really could not make the show without all of you and of course the rest of the stacks pack so thank you |
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