Ep. 311 They Say We Die Twice with Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Sociologists and co-authors Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans join The Stacks to talk about their book The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels. The book follows four people whose bodies go unclaimed after their deaths, and how and why this happens. We also discuss how Pamela and Stefan think ethically about reporting and writing about the dead, why being claimed matters, and how they took care of themselves while spending eight years with this subject matter.

The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. We will discuss the book on March 27th with Elise Hu.

You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:

https://thestackspodcast.com/2024/03/20/ep-311-pamela-prickett-stefan-timmermans

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1:00.0	Substac.com slash the Stacks 10% off unstacked. Okay that's enough. Let's listen to this episode. Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your
1:21.2	host Tracy Thomas and today I am pleased to welcome
1:23.7	two professors of sociology Pamela Prickett and Stephen Timmermans to the
1:27.7	podcast. Pamela and Stepen have written a book called The Unclaimed
1:31.5	Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels.
1:34.4	It's a narrative non-fiction story that focuses on four individuals that go unclaimed and
1:39.0	what their experiences say about the broader system that leaves thousands unclaimed in America.
1:44.5	We talk about the immense amount of research that went into the book, why they wanted to write
1:48.8	about the dead, and how they worked together as a team to tell this story.
1:53.7	As a reminder, the Stacks Book Club pick for March
1:56.2	is Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu.
1:58.6	We will discuss that book on March 27th
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