Ep. 53 Writing is Writing with Ben Blacker
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Today marks one full year of The Stacks, and what an amazing year it has been. The Stacks has every intention of making year two even better. To kick it off we have a real life renaissance man; author, comedian, and podcaster, Ben Blacker. We talk today about the importance of literature as a way to see the humanity in others, the types of anger you can feel toward books, and about Ben's life as a writer of many different mediums, from comic books to teen movies.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today is a very special |
| 0:14.4 | episode of the show. Today is our 53rd episode which also happens to be our |
| 0:20.3 | one year anniversary of the stacks. I didn't know what to expect when the show first |
| 0:25.2 | aired on April 4th 2018 and honestly I am blown away by the smart thoughtful |
| 0:31.2 | engaging generous community we all have built together. |
| 0:35.3 | I cannot believe all the love and support from so many of you around the world and I'm honored |
| 0:40.5 | to make this nerdy little podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | So thank you to everyone who's downloaded an episode or |
| 0:45.7 | subscribe to the show. |
| 0:47.5 | People who've written reviews, commented on our Instagram, |
| 0:50.2 | shared the show with their friends, |
| 0:52.3 | suggested a book or join the Sacks Pack over on |
| 0:55.0 | Patreon. I am so so grateful to all of you so thank you and I'm really excited to |
| 1:00.5 | make your number two even better. |
| 1:03.5 | So we are making a few changes around here. |
| 1:05.1 | And one of the things is that we're launching Ask the Stacks. |
| 1:09.0 | It's a new mini segment where we'll be suggesting personalized book recommendations to |
| 1:13.6 | listeners. All you have to do is email asking the snacks at gmail.com and |
| 1:18.7 | send us a few sentences about what kind of book you're looking for and then myself and the guest will give you |
| 1:24.4 | our suggestions for a book that we think you should read. You can hear the first ever Ask the Stacks today. |
| 1:30.3 | So listen up and then send us your requests for recommendations by going to |
| 1:34.3 | asking the stacks at gmail.com. Something that's not changing around here is |
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