Ep. 300 A Lover of Place with Zach Stafford
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Writer, Vibe Check cohost, and Tony winning Producer, Zach Stafford joins The Stacks to discuss being a journalist, his many jobs over the year, and of course, books!. Zach reveals his surprise problematic favorite book, explains how his love of geography has informed his entire professional career and addresses the challenge of squaring his upbeat personality with being a serious journalist.
The Stacks Book Club selection for January is Erasure by Percival Everett. We will discuss the book on January 31st with Zach Stafford.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the stats a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host |
| 0:12.4 | Tracy Thomas and it is |
| 0:13.7 | our first episode of the brand new year and I am so excited to kick off 2024 with |
| 0:19.3 | Zach Stafford. Zach is a journalist he is a contributor contributor at MS NBC, the former editor-in-chief at The Advocate magazine. |
| 0:26.7 | He hosts one of my very favorite podcasts, Vibe Check, along with friends of the show, Saeed Jones and Sam Sanders. |
| 0:33.3 | Zach and I today get to talking about an alternate life |
| 0:37.2 | he could have lived as a geography professor. |
| 0:39.6 | We talk about the importance of Place, |
| 0:41.8 | his Tony Award for Strange Loop, and of course the many, many books |
| 0:45.8 | he loves, and the one classic that he and I both have absolutely never read. |
| 0:51.5 | Zach will be back for the Stax Book Club discussion of Arrasher by Percival Everett on Wednesday, January 31st. |
| 0:58.9 | Quick reminder, everything we talk about on today's episode of the Stacks can be found in the link on the show notes. |
| 1:04.2 | It is a new year and if you're looking for ways to support your favorite creators, I would |
| 1:08.1 | encourage you to support this podcast, The Stacks, over on Patreon. |
| 1:11.9 | If you go to Patreon.com slash The Stacks, you can join the Stacks over on Patreon. If you go to Patreon.com slash the Stacks you can join the Stacks |
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| 1:21.2 | brand new mega reading challenge this year. We're having a lot of fun. |
| 1:24.8 | Plus by joining the Stax Pack you make it possible for me to make this independent |
| 1:28.1 | podcast every single week. So if that sounds like something you want to support in |
| 1:31.8 | this new year head to Patreon.com slash the Stax and join us. |
| 1:36.3 | Shout out to our newest members Dorothy, Harmony Coleman, Jay Jones, Melissa R. Green, and Stella EdoZOMO'1 Witt. |
| 1:45.0 | Thank you all so much for joining the Stax Pack, |
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