Ep. 265 Deep Comfort Reads with Nicole Chung
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Nicole Chung joins The Stacks to discuss her new book A Living Remedy: A Memoir. We talk about her process of writing and talking about grief in the midst and aftermath of COVID, and what it's like as a memoirist to be publicly known for her family life. We also hear what it's meant for Nicole to become a full-time writer, and how she uses vibes to organize her books.
The Stacks Book Club selection for May is This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris. We will discuss the book on May 31st with Nicole Chung.
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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 | Lehman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will |
| 0:33.5 | be announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour |
| 0:40.4 | and get your tickets before we sell out. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to the stats, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host, |
| 0:56.2 | Tracy Thomas, and today we welcome the brilliant memoirist, Nicole Chang to the show. |
| 1:01.0 | Nicole is the author of A Living Remedy, which is one of my favorite reads so far this year. |
| 1:05.6 | It's a sharp personal and political memoir tackling family, home, death and grief, |
| 1:10.3 | and adequate healthcare and wealth disparities among other themes. The New York Times called |
| 1:15.2 | A Living Remedy a luminous addition to the literature of loss. It follows Nicole's beloved and best-selling |
| 1:20.9 | memoir All You Can Ever Know, which was a stackspod club pick in 2019. Nicole is also a contributing |
| 1:27.5 | writer at the Atlantic, a time contributor, and a slate columnist, and she's also an avid reader |
| 1:33.9 | with fantastic taste so get your pens ready for the second half of this episode when she goes |
| 1:38.5 | through some of her faves. Though everything we talk about in today's episode and every episode of |
| 1:43.2 | the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. Nicole will return on May 31st for the |
| 1:48.8 | discussion of our book club selection, this boy we made, a memoir of motherhood, genetics, |
| 1:53.0 | and facing the unknown by Taylor Harris. If you love the stacks and you want more of it, |
| 1:57.6 | like our incredible community on Discord, our bonus episodes, our monthly meetups to discuss |
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