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🗓️ 29 May 2024
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It is The Stacks Book Club Day, and we're celebrating James Baldwin and his centennial year by reading his book, No Name in the Street. We're joined again by Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster- and founder of Literaryswag- Yahdon Israel. We talk about the delicate balance between public and private, in life and in memoir. We also examine the usefulness of public beefs, and Baldwin’s lasting legacy.
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our June book club pick will be.
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody I have something really excited to tell you about I just put together my first ever non-fiction summer reading guide. |
0:06.4 | It is a collection of 35 of the most unput-downable non-fiction books that I have ever read. They are grouped for you in seven |
0:14.2 | different categories so you can read on a theme or you can pick whichever ones |
0:18.1 | sound most exciting and read them as one-offs. The most important thing about |
0:22.3 | this reading guide is that every single book in this |
0:24.3 | guide is a book that I have read and loved and none of the books have ever been featured on the Stax |
0:29.8 | podcast. So that means while you maybe are familiar with the authors, maybe you've heard of the title, I've never been able to talk with you about them. |
0:36.5 | So I'm excited to put these books into your life. |
0:39.0 | If you want access to the non-fiction Summer Reading Guide, there are three ways to get it. |
0:43.0 | Number one you can join the Stacks pack on Patreon by going to Patreon. |
0:46.8 | dot com slash the stacks for five dollars a month you get this plus bonus |
0:51.1 | episodes plus access to our discord community plus our virtual |
0:55.5 | book club meetups. It's a great great deal. The second option is you can |
0:59.7 | subscribe to Unstacked which is my sub-stacked newsletter where I talk about books and pop culture and I also give you bonus episodes and reading wrap-ups. |
1:08.0 | That is available to you at Tracy Thomas.substac.com. |
1:11.0 | And the third and final way is for those of you who don't want a |
1:13.8 | subscription you can buy the PDF of the non-fiction summer reading guide over on |
1:18.8 | Patreon you go to patreon.com slash the stacks and click the shop button. |
1:24.0 | Okay, the last thing you need to know about the summer reading guide is that it is |
1:27.2 | available to you now through September 21st. That is the last day of summer |
1:32.4 | so you have Memorial Day all the way |
1:34.8 | to September 21st, which is the official end of summer in my book, to get this |
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