You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway.

We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games,

cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks live

in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th

in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA

Laman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be

announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and

get your tickets before we sell out.

Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host,

Tracy Thomas, and today we welcome Nora News, a freelance journalist and Emmy nominated producer and

writer. In 2017, Nora Field produced Anderson Cooper's CNN coverage of the 2017 Charlottesville

White Nationalist riots. Her new book 24 hours in Charlottesville, an oral history of the stand

against white supremacy, gives a gripping account of these events as told by the people who were there.

Nora shares the stories of activists, faith leaders, students, city officials, and others,

whose recollections and insights bring those horrific 24 hours into focus. Today, Nora shares with

me the details of compiling an oral history, the reason she didn't interview white supremacists

for this book, and what things surprised her as she sat down to have these conversations.

Remember, the stackspodcast for August is you made a fool of death with your beauty by a

quickie and messy, which we will discuss on August 30th with Sam Sanders. Reminder, everything we

talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes.

Want more of the stacks? You can join the stackspack over on Patreon. It's just $5 a month,

and when you join, you have access to our monthly virtual book club hangs, the stackspack Discord,

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