The Short Stacks 10: Bryan Washington//Lot
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Short Stacks we're joined by debut author, Bryan Washington, whose debut book Lot is a short story collection set in Houston. Bryan talks street names as titles, his "day job", and what is next for him (trust me its exciting).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Stacks. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today it's the Short Stacks, our shorter conversations with authors. |
| 0:16.4 | We have as our guest debut author Brian Washington. Brian's brand new book Lot has been a favorite |
| 0:22.3 | 2019 read for me so I'm very |
| 0:24.6 | excited to get to share it with all of you. Before we do, I just wanted to |
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| 1:01.8 | Okay now it's time to talk with Brian Washington, |
| 1:04.8 | author of Lott, which is a short story cycle. |
| 1:08.3 | Lott is the kind of collection you can't really define, |
| 1:10.4 | but I'm going to try anyways. |
| 1:12.1 | It centers the city of Houston and looks at the |
| 1:14.0 | themes of love and loss, sexuality, coming of age, and a whole lot more. I promise you |
| 1:19.7 | Brian does a way better job explaining the book, so I'm just going to let him do that. Here's my |
| 1:24.3 | conversation with Brian Washington. All right, Brian, well welcome to the Stacks. |
| 1:34.8 | I just want to start here. |
| 1:36.8 | In 30 seconds or less-ish, can you just tell us about Lott? |
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