Ep. 262 Joy, Surprise, and Uplift with Ari Shapiro
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today, award-winning host of NPR's All Things Considered, and now New York Times bestselling author, Ari Shapiro joins us to discuss his new book The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening. We discuss how Ari brings his identity to his storytelling, the difference between illuminating and influencing in journalism, and how he approaches writing interview questions.
The Stacks Book Club selection for April is Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay. We will discuss the book on April 26th with Clint Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
| 0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
| 0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks live |
| 0:15.3 | in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
| 0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
| 0:26.9 | layman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
| 0:33.6 | announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and |
| 0:40.6 | get your tickets before we sell out. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today I'm speaking with award-winning NPR host of all things |
| 1:00.6 | considered Ari Shapiro. He's now an author as well with his first book The Best Strangers in the |
| 1:06.3 | World Stories from a Life Spent Listening. This instant New York Times best-selling memoir |
| 1:12.4 | in essays covers a wide range of Shapiro's experiences from reporting and war-torn countries |
| 1:17.2 | to taking flights on Air Force One with President Obama. Today we talk about the idea of media bias, |
| 1:23.3 | how Ari thinks about writing questions, and hating books. Our book club selection for April |
| 1:29.8 | is The Poetry Collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay. We will be discussing the book |
| 1:34.8 | on April 26th with Clint Smith. Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the |
| 1:39.9 | stacks can be found in the link in your show notes. If you love the stacks and you want more of it |
| 1:44.0 | like our incredible community on Discord, our bonus episodes and monthly meetups to discuss |
| 1:48.0 | our book club picks, you must join the stacks pack on Patreon. For just $5 a month, you get |
| 1:53.9 | all of that and more and you get to know that you're a part of making this black woman independent |
| 1:58.9 | podcast run every single week. Head to patreon.com slash the stacks and join. Shout out to some of our |
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