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The Stacks

Ep. 55 The Art of Performance with Gabrielle Civil

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, Literature

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today we have performance artist, author, poet, and professor Gabrielle Civil on the podcast to discuss the creative process, books that bite, overachieving Black girls, and books in translation. We spend time discussing Performance Memoir as a genre and we hear about Gabrielle's books Swallow the Fish and Experiments in Joy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and our guest today is Gabrielle Seville,

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a poet, a performance artist, author, and professor.

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We talk about art and life and so many books in addition to both of Gabriel's amazing books

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swallow the fish and experiments enjoy. But before we get to that just a

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reminder to get your book recommendations from the stacks send us an email with your name, what you're

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