Ep. 270 My Whole Self Is Here with Hannah Oliver Depp
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today we're joined by the owner of Loyalty Bookstores, Hannah Oliver Depp. We hear about Hannah's road to owning her own bookstores in the Washington D.C. area, how she decides what to have in stock, and how indie bookstores influence the publishing world. We also discuss the best ways to support indie bookshops, and where the name Loyalty came from.
The Stacks Book Club selection for June is Oreo by Fran Ross. We will discuss the book on June 28th with Hannah Oliver Depp.
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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 | Laman 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 |
| 0:40.4 | and get your tickets before we sell out. |
| 0:52.7 | 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 Hana Oliver Dept who owns and operates |
| 1:00.4 | loyalty bookstores in D.C. and in the surrounding metro area. Some of you might remember Hana from |
| 1:05.5 | when she was a guest during our band book week series and today she's back to talk about what |
| 1:10.5 | it's like running her very own intersectional mission driven feminist bookstore. Hana is a career |
| 1:16.8 | bookseller serving on the boards of bookshop.org and the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association. |
| 1:22.6 | Today we talk about Hana's road to bookselling, how readers can support their local indies aside |
| 1:27.6 | from buying books, and we hear how Hana and her team of booksellers decide what to stock on their |
| 1:32.9 | shelves. Hana will return for our June Book Club discussion of Oreo by Fran Ross, which we will |
| 1:38.7 | discuss on Wednesday June 28th. Click reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the |
| 1:43.5 | stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. Do you know what is very cool? The stacks back. |
| 1:49.4 | That's the exclusive community for lovers of the stacks over on Patreon. For as little as $5 |
| 1:54.4 | a month you get to join our virtual book club and discord chats and link up with like-minded book |
| 1:59.7 | lovers and be a part of the best bookish community in town. The stacks pack also gets bonus episodes |
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