Unabridged: The Oakland Live Show with Leila Mottley

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This Unabridged features audio from our first stop on The Stacks tour in Oakland with Leila Mottley. We talk about her book Nightcrawling and share our reality TV hot takes. We also give audience book recommendations with a special guest. This is an edited version of the live show, so if you want more, come join us on tour! Get your tickets here.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. It's me Tracy. Check in in with you, letting you know what you're about to hear
0:04.1	on today's episode of The Stacks Unabridged. It is, in fact, an abridged version of the live
0:10.8	in the Stacks tour stop in Oakland, California, back on July 22nd. I'm talking to the amazing
0:17.2	Leila Motley, who you might have heard on previous episodes of The Stacks. We're talking about her
0:21.3	incredible book, Nightcrawling, Pop Culture, and so much more. I hope you enjoy this sneak peek
0:27.2	of the tour. And if you like what you hear, be sure to grab your tickets to get the full
0:31.6	experience for our shows in Chicago, in August, our shows in New York, NDC, in September, and our
0:37.6	final show in Los Angeles, California, in October. I cannot wait to see you all in The Stacks.
0:44.3	Hi, everybody. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Yeah, it's my
1:01.1	fucking birthday. It's chaos. So hi, everyone. Welcome. For those of you who don't know me who were
1:09.0	dragged here by your girlfriend, your wife, your cousin, your husband, I'm Tracy Thomas. I'm the
1:15.1	creator and host of a podcast called The Stacks where we talk about books. Yeah, that's it. It's a
1:22.8	book show tonight, nominally a book show. Thank you all for coming. I'm really nervous. I'm so glad
1:29.2	you're all here. When I decided to do the show in 2018, and the whole back corner back there,
1:37.2	that's like my friends and family, they were all like, okay, and now here we are doing a tour
1:42.5	starting in Oakland, my hometown. So thank you all for coming. For those of you who did not know me
1:48.9	before 2018, I'd like to thank you extra for coming because you weren't forced to be here
1:54.1	getting aggressive text messages like, did you buy your ticket? But now we'll bring out Layla.
2:00.7	Layla Motley, she wrote this book. It's called Nightcrawling. My copy does not have the
2:08.4	Oprah Winfrey Book Club sticker on it, but this was a fucking Oprah Winfrey Book Club pick.
2:15.7	Layla was 17 years old when she wrote this book, 17. She's 21 now as of last month.
2:24.3	She's an Oakland native. This book was a long list for the Booker Prize, which is a very important
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