Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today the wonderful Zach Stafford from the Vibe Check

podcast and famed journalist is back in the stacks.

We're here to discuss our first Stacks Book Club pick of 2024, the bold and hilarious satirical novel Erasure by

Percival Everett. The book was published in 2001 and tells the story of Thelonious

Monk Ellison, who is a black writer who gets a little bit upset about the way that black literature is being published.

He goes on to write an unintentionally successful novel that parodies popular black fiction.

The book is also the basis of a brand new film called American fiction which was written and directed by Cord Jefferson.

Today, Zach and I talk about the book, Erasure, we talk about what worked for us, what didn't, we talk about the novel within the novel and we also talk a little bit about the adaptation of the film American fiction.

Here's what you need to know. There are spoilers of the book, Erasure, but there are no spoilers of the book erasure but there are no

spoilers of the movie American fiction so if you haven't seen the movie you can

definitely listen today. Make sure you listen to the end of today's episode to find out what our February book club pick will be.

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