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The Stacks

Unabridged: The DC Live Show with Jason Reynolds

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, Literature

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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This Unabridged episode features audio from our Washington DC stop of The Stacks Tour, featuring bestselling author and friend of the show Jason Reynolds. We discuss Jason's bath routine, the real story behind his book Ghost and our favorite guest on The Stacks.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Today's episode of The Stacks Unabridged is an abridged version of our live

0:05.9

tour stop from DC with our steamed guest, the wonderful Jason Reynolds. If you don't know Jason,

0:13.0

he is an author for young people. And now he has a brand new children's book out called There

0:17.6

was a party for Langston. He's also working on his first adult book, which we talk about on today's

0:22.4

episode. I did want to give you a quick heads up. The audio on this conversation is not great. We

0:28.3

did record this in a comedy club. So you are going to hear a little bit of chatter. Nothing

0:31.9

we can do about it, but I promised the episode is worth it. Last thing I want to say, if you're

0:36.1

listening to this and you only get about the first 10 minutes of our conversation, that means

0:39.7

you're not a member of the stacks pack yet. What you need to do is go to patreon.com slash the

0:44.1

stacks and join the stacks pack to get the full conversation and all of our bonus episodes.

0:48.9

By joining the stacks pack, you make it possible for me to make the show every single week. Plus,

0:52.7

you earn perks like our monthly bonus episodes, aka this and access to our discord channel,

0:58.0

plus our monthly virtual book hub meetups, discounts on merch, shout outs on the show and a lot more.

1:02.8

So head to patreon.com slash the stacks, join the stacks pack and enjoy the full, unabridged,

1:09.0

unabridged version of this episode.

1:26.6

Okay, now we're going to talk to Jason about things. I think we should start at the easiest

1:30.4

place for all of us. This is your buy. This is Jason's buy. He told me I didn't have to read a

1:34.2

look the long it is and I cut it down by like 10 sentences. Here's his buy. Jason's read a lot of

1:39.4

books. He's won a lot of awards. Everybody loves him. My personal edition is that he is my literary

1:46.4

crush smells great. He's sort of that one go. And he's tall and the pants, but we're going to

1:59.5

get to the pants. Let's start with ghost. How do ghosts come to be? How do ghosts come to be?

2:04.7

You want the real story? No, I want you to buy us. That people always like how do ghosts come

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