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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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We're back with friend of The Stacks, Kiese Laymon, with audio from the second New York live show on our national tour. Kiese discusses writing about real people in his life, and reveals what he would change about his memoir Heavy if he could revise it. Plus, we talk about first kisses, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's me Tracy Thomas, host of the Stacks here with another episode of the Stacks Unabridged, our exclusive |
| 0:07.6 | Patreon-only bonus episode. On today's episode you are going to hear the late show from New York City's stop on the live and the Stax tour. |
| 0:16.8 | I am joined by the wonderful brilliant amazing human being that is Kia Say Lehman. |
| 0:21.6 | If you're listening to this episode and it cuts out about 10 minutes in, |
| 0:25.4 | that means you are not a member of the Stax Pack. |
| 0:28.2 | Head to Patreon.com slash the Stax to join, |
| 0:31.4 | to hear the entire episode, and to get perks like access to our |
| 0:35.4 | discord monthly virtual book club chats our incredible reading tracker and more that's |
| 0:41.4 | Patreon dot com slash the stacks to join and more. That's Patreon. That's Patreon. That's enough of that. Now, it's time to enjoy my conversation with Kia Laman from the |
| 0:50.8 | live in the Stacks tour stop in New York City, the late night show, |
| 0:55.0 | full of all the mess you could ever want. |
| 0:57.2 | Enjoy. Hi everybody welcome welcome. I'm Tracy Thomas, host of the Stags. Talk about books tonight. Is |
| 1:16.6 | anybody here read books? Yeah, anybody here write books? Hey, I saw you. Well, great, we're going to do all of that chill vibes but also fun and |
| 1:28.2 | some hopefully some chaos some really bad takes prepare yourself mostly from me but Kiasa is also not to be trusted. |
| 1:37.0 | And let me, I'll bring out my guess, you all already probably know him, but if you don't, he the best is that a good intro he's he's |
| 1:45.9 | the best he's written the best he's won the best he's the best and he's Kia |
| 1:51.3 | say Lehman and come on out or don't he's leaving me hanging |
| 1:56.8 | surprise he's not here hi hi okay ready round two you guys are late show, so who knows what you're gonna get, okay? We're gonna try not to repeat. But we are gonna repeat one thing. Do you have your microphone? Hello? Hi. Welcome. |
| 2:13.0 | How you doing? |
| 2:14.0 | I feel like I haven't seen you in so long. |
| 2:18.0 | Kise, tell me about your first kiss. |
| 2:22.0 | Why you? Tell me about your first kiss. I'm just going to tell you, quickly, |
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