Hi everybody, it's Tracy. I want to tell you about something new that I am offering this fall.

I will be teaching an online class all about understanding Shakespeare. The course is five weeks

long. It will begin on Wednesday, September 17th. It will go for the next five Wednesdays.

It is a class geared toward giving you the tools and concepts you need to understand the work of William Shakespeare.

I am so excited to teach this class. As you all know, I love Shakespeare's plays. And we are going to be

using two of my most beloved plays, 12th night and Richard III, to break down the crucial components

of Shakespeare's work, verse antithesis and and argument so if this sounds like something you'd

be interested in head to the stacks podcast.com slash understanding dash Shakespeare the class is

open now for all to enroll there are limited spots so grab your spots before it's too late

publishing is so emotional and there's just so much happening that you have to navigate

just to sort of stay afloat in it.

But I just have been able to sort of quiet myself and look around and be like, I published

two books with like the two biggest presses in the world.

And these are books that 10 years ago might not have been allowed to exist.

My entire vision as an editor is so much bigger than me.

It's about the people that I can bring to the conversation and bring to the table.

And it is about, in whatever way I'm able to, to change or grow the face of literature.

Welcome to the Stacks, podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and this week I am joined by Den Michelle Norris.

Den is the editor-in-chief of the online literary publication Electric Literature. Den is also the author of two books that came out this year,

one, her debut novel when The Harvest Comes, and the second, an anthology called Both and,

essays by trans and gender nonconforming Writers of Color.

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