Ep. 6 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin — The Stacks Book Club (Chris Maddox)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week of The Stacks, we discuss Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin with our guest, TV writer Chris Maddox.Giovanni's Room is a classic American novel written in 1956, and the topics of masculinity, isolation, and love deferred are as relevant now as they were then. Our conversation traverses these themes from the book and more, like what we think of the title and who we think should star in the film version. There are spoilers in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast all about books. |
| 0:12.6 | My name is Tracy Thomas and I am your host here. |
| 0:15.6 | This is another episode of our Stacks Book Club |
| 0:18.8 | and we are discussing James Baldwin's Room. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm joined by my guest from last week, Chris Maddox, a |
| 0:25.2 | television writer and actor, and we discuss this book that tells the story of a young |
| 0:30.1 | man who moves to Paris and his romance. I don't want to give anything away. |
| 0:35.3 | If you haven't read the book yet you should pause the episode go ahead read the book |
| 0:39.1 | and then come back and talk to us. Also just so you know everything we talk about this week will be in the |
| 0:45.2 | shownots. So without further I have my guest Chris Maddox here. |
| 1:01.2 | Today is our The Stacks Book Club episode. So we're having our little |
| 1:05.7 | bookish conversation about an American classic set in Paris. |
| 1:11.0 | Paris. |
| 1:12.0 | An American in Paris, if you will. It is called Giovanni's Room. It is by the great James Baldwin. |
| 1:20.4 | So we're going to talk about the book. Oh, and of course, let me just say my two |
| 1:24.4 | disclaimers loud and proud. Disclaimer one, there will be spoilers on this book. |
| 1:29.0 | We will be talking about the book in detail, so if you haven't read the book yet, |
| 1:33.0 | take a pause, the episode will still be here. |
| 1:35.0 | So just take a pause, read the book and come back. |
| 1:38.0 | My second little piece of information for you is that any book we talk about, any article, anything we talk about on today's episode will be in the show notes, so you can have space to enjoy it that way and you don't have to worry about writing everything down. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay that's enough. |
| 1:55.0 | Maddox welcome back to the show. |
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