Ep. 291 I've Never Read for Pleasure with Mitchell S. Jackson

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, Literature

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson joins the show to discuss his new book Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion. He explains why he wanted to write about the intersection of basketball and fashion in this hybrid of lookbook and cultural commentary. We also get into basketball's best and worst dressed, what winning the Pulitzer has meant to Mitchell and why he never reads for pleasure.

The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Severance by Ling Ma. We will discuss the book on November 29th with Mitchell S. Jackson.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.
0:11.9	I'm your host Tracey Thomas, and today we are joined by Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson.
0:17.8	Mitchell is here to discuss his latest book, it's called Fly, and it's the big book of basketball
0:22.8	fashion. Fly is not only a quality lookbook packed with fantastic photos of your favorite NBA players,
0:29.2	it also includes essays of incisive cultural commentary. It's the study of the intersection
0:34.5	between high fashion and basketball and it dates all the way back to the pre-civil rights era.
0:39.4	It's giving you suits and skinny ties all the way through to the current era of nerd,
0:44.0	chic, and author. Mitchell previously authored the memoir Survival Math and the novel The Residue Years.
0:50.4	In addition to naming basketball's best and worst dressed athletes, we also talk today about
0:55.5	reading for pleasure and what winning the Pulitzer Prize has meant to Mitchell both personally and
0:59.9	professionally. Our November book club selection is The Novel Severance by Ling Ma, which we will
1:05.2	discuss on Wednesday, November 29th when Mitchell Jackson returns to The Stacks.
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