Unabridged: A Conversation Between Friends with Jason Reynolds and Hanif Abdurraqib

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this bonus episode, we’re heading down south to Jackson, Mississippi to join friends of the pod, Jason Reynolds and Hanif Abdurraqib, at the Mississippi Book Festival! Together, we celebrate each other's work, fight over the greatest band of all time, and then debate the state of music and literary criticism.

You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks Website: https://www.thestackspodcast.com/unabridged/2025/9/19/tsu-51-jason-reynolds-hanif-abdurraqib

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0:11.6	Hey everybody.
0:12.6	It's me, Tracy Thomas, host of the stacks.
0:14.6	And I am here today with another bonus episode of the stacks.
0:18.3	We call it the stacks unabridged.
0:20.7	And today, I am really excited to share
0:22.9	with you my conversation from the Mississippi Book Festival with Hanif Abdurakib and Jason Reynolds.
0:29.5	The panel is titled A Conversation Between Friends, and that's just what you're going to hear,
0:34.1	talking about each other's work, music criticism, and a very important question
0:38.7	about the greatest band of all time. If you're listening to this episode and it cuts out
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