Ep. 373 Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley — The Stacks Book Club (Kara Brown)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It’s the Stacks’ Book Club Day, and we’re discussing Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley with returning guest, Kara Brown. We share our thoughts on the story’s twists and turns, especially the big reveal. Then we dive deeper to discuss the significance of this book on the literary landscape, and what about the novel does and doesn’t hold up when viewed through a modern-day lens.
There are spoilers on this episode.
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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| 0:49.8 | It's like a nice, dry white wine that goes down easy. You're like, it's at a $12 bottle that goes down |
| 0:56.4 | really easy. And I'm like, hell yeah, I'll jerk that. And I feel like these books, a lot of these |
| 1:01.3 | mysteries for me are in that category of like, there are a lot of things you can harp at, |
| 1:06.2 | but I'm like ultimately, it did feel like that $12 bottle of white wine where I'm like, yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | It's exactly. Yeah. And I think that's hard to do. Yes. |
| 1:20.8 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host, |
| 1:24.9 | Tracy Thomas, and it's the last Wednesday of the month, |
| 1:34.8 | aka the Stacks Book Club Day. Today, we are discussing the 1990 classic mystery novel, Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. I'm joined for this conversation by screenwriter and cultural critic |
| 1:39.9 | Kara Brown. In our chat today, we dig into the racial politics of the novel, try to unpack the |
| 1:46.1 | crimes and their motives, and discuss the violence and PTSD depicted throughout the book. There are |
| 1:51.9 | a lot of spoilers on today's episode. Be sure to listen to the end of the episode to find out what |
| 1:57.8 | our June book club pick will be. Quick reminder, everything we talk about on |
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