Ep. 38 Open City by Teju Cole — The Stacks Book Club (Behzad Dabu)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week actor Behzad Dabu (How to Get Away with Murder, The Chi) joins us again to discuss Teju Cole's novel, Open City. The book is a meditation on borders, terror, and belonging set against the back drop of a post 9/11 New York City, and centers a Nigerian immigrant as our guide. This week we discuss the book in detail, there are spoilers, however this book is less about plot and more about big ideas. Listen at your own discretion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Stacks. Today we're talking about Open City by Teju Cole as part of the Stacks book club. Our guest is actor Bezadabu and I'm your host, Tracy Thomas. |
| 0:19.8 | We're doing something really fun over on the Stack's Instagram page. |
| 0:24.0 | It's our first annual Battle of the Books. |
| 0:26.0 | That's right, it's March Madness, except for it's in December, |
| 0:30.0 | and it's about Bucks. |
| 0:31.0 | We're taking all 19 of the Stacks Book Club picks from 2019 and letting |
| 0:36.1 | them face off in an elimination challenge where winner takes the title a favorite book of the year, |
| 0:41.6 | 2018. |
| 0:43.3 | We're also giving all of you a chance to win |
| 0:45.6 | one of the 19 books and a Stax tote bag |
| 0:49.2 | and, of course, most importantly, bragging rights. |
| 0:52.4 | The books are seated based on |
| 0:53.8 | podcast downloads good read scords my personal feelings about the books and a lot more. |
| 0:58.5 | You can read all about that and the details of the challenge on the website which is |
| 1:03.4 | W. W. the Stacks Podcast.com. If you want to join the fun you have |
| 1:08.6 | until 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time tomorrow, Thursday, 1220. |
| 1:14.5 | So Thursday, December 20th, |
| 1:16.3 | to go to the Challenge website. |
| 1:18.6 | You're gonna go to challenge. |
| 1:20.6 | com, which sounds hilarious, it's spelled CH C-A-L-L-O-N-G-E- dot com slash the Stax 2018. |
| 1:30.0 | There's also a link in the show notes. |
| 1:32.1 | And you'll complete your prediction brackets. |
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