Ep. 137 Specificity in Storytelling with Yaa Gyasi
Our guest today is award winning novelist Yaa Gyasi. here to discuss her new novel Transcendent Kingdom. Our conversation touches on the challenges to writing a follow up to her critically acclaimed debut Homegoing, how she gave herself permission to write about small intimate stories this time around, and the ways research has factored into her process as a storyteller.
The Stacks Book Club selection for November is The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore. We will discuss the book with Cole Cuchna on November 25th.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Prairie Lights (Iowa City, IA)
Ctrl by SZA
Chewing Gum (Channel 4)
On Immunity by Eula Biss
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest (PBS Kids Writers Contest)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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