Ep. 200 Passing by Nella Larsen -- The Stacks Book Club (Cree Myles)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Stacks Book Club we're discussing Nella Larsen's 1929 classic novel Passing. We're joined again by Cree Myles, the creative force behind Penguin Random House' All Ways Black, to discuss this story racial passing in the 1920's. This episode touches on the history of passing, the 2021 film adaptation, and the central question of freedom.
There are spoilers on this episode.
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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 Lindsay |
| 0:18.4 | Yes, that Rachel Lindsay the first black bachelorette |
| 0:21.8 | Also, 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 L.A. 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 |
| 1:14.5 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them |
| 1:17.6 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and it is time for the first stacks book club discussion of the year |
| 1:23.5 | We are discussing Nella Larson's 1929 novel passing and we're joined again by Kremiles the creative force behind penguin random houses |
| 1:32.6 | Always black platform |
| 1:35.0 | We talk today about the history of passing the movie adaptation and of course that ending |
| 1:41.8 | There are all kinds of spoilers on today's episode. So please read the book first and come back and listen |
| 1:48.4 | If you want an opportunity to discuss passing and even more detail with me and a whole bunch of other folks |
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| 1:57.4 | We do a virtual book club chat on the stacks book club pick and members of the stacks pack also get bonus episodes of the show |
| 2:04.1 | Discounts on merch and until the end of January 2022 the stacks exclusive reading tracker |
| 2:10.4 | Head to patreon dot com slash the stacks to join us. I also want to give a quick shout out to our newest members of the stacks pack |
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