Unabridged: Plot Twist — LARB Radio Hour Interviews Traci!

For this month’s bonus episode, we’re mixing things up a little—this time, Traci is the one being interviewed! The fine folks at LARB Radio Hour, Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman, speak with Traci to discuss the impact of social media on publishing, the content creator life, and the way readers discover books today. At the end of the episode, Medaya, Eric, and Traci offer readers a rundown of recommendations for the books getting us through 2025.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

The Stacks

• Here & Now (NPR)

• One for the Books (LAist)

• Unstacked

• The French Open

• The Sellout by James Beatty

• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

• “Heather Ann Thompson, ‘Blood in the Water:  Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon, 2016)” (New Books in Law, NBn)

• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

• “Ep. 325 It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover — The Stacks Book Club (Melissa Mogollon)” (The Stacks)

• The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland

• All Fours by Miranda July

• James by Percival

• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

• The Stacks Patreon

• “The Nonfiction Files 3: Can a Memoir Be Bad?” (Traci Thomas, Substack)

• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• “Ep. 141 White Male Mediocrity with Ijeoma Oluo” (The Stacks)

• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

• Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

• Toni Morrison

• Andrea Long Chu

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

• “Ep. 118 Living the Revision with Kiese Laymon” (The Stacks)

• Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

• Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton

• Beyoncé

• “blessing the boats” (Lucille Clifton, 2000)

• The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins

• Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

• “A Propulsive, Brutal ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Is Here. And It’s Great.” (Jennifer Harlan, The New York Times)

• Oprah’s Book Club

• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

• The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman

• The Lilac People by Milo Todd

• Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li

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