Podcast appearances and mentions of Lacy M Johnson

Writer and editor Zeke Caligiuri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, a new collection of essays on class he co-edited along with eleven other incarcerated writers. The volume's contributors include Eula Biss, Kao Kalia Yang, Lacy M. Johnson, Valeria Luisielli, Kiese Laymon, and many others. Caligiuri, who worked on the book while in Minnesota correctional facilities and is now free, discusses the challenges of creativity and the literary life in prison settings, as well as how the book came to be. He also reflects on the idea that “the history of class hasn't always been written by the powerful, but they have always been its editors,” as he writes in a foreword, which he reads from during the episode. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Zeke Caligiuri American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion (ed.) This is Where I Am Prison Noir (ed. Joyce Carol Oates) The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison (ed. Caits Meissner) How a Collective of Incarcerated Writers Published an Anthology From Prison - Electric Literature “Before I Was Anything” (poem) Literary Hub Others: Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop What Incarcerated Writers Want the Literary Community to Understand: Caits Meissner on Why "Prison Writer" Is a Limiting Label (featuring Zeke Caligiuri, Literary Hub, Sept. 11, 2019) C. Fausto Cabrera Kiese Laymon Valeria Luiselli Steve Almond Jen Bowen Kristin Collier  Sarith Peou Toni Morrison Eula Biss Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're rerunning an episode from 2018 featuring two interviews with Harper's Magazine's former New Books columnist, Lidija Haas, and with our current Easy Chair columnist Rachel Kushner. Listen in advance of our event tonight at the Center for Fiction, “What Happened to Gen X?,” which will see Harper's editor Christopher Beha in conversation with his generational peers Rachel Kushner and Ethan Hawke as they explore the question at the center of our September issue. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—and Brett Kavanaugh's irate response—was an excruciating bit of political theater, complete with righteous speeches from both sides of the aisle. (It also proved to be not much more than spectacle, as Kavanaugh was sworn in as an associate justice earlier this week.) Nevertheless, the event illustrated how we are socialized to perform and understand gender, race, and class. In this episode, New Books columnist Lidija Haas joined Harper's web editor Violet Lucca to discuss a handful of recent publications that deal with these issues: Lacy M. Johnson's The Reckonings, Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad, and Kristen M. Ghoddsee's Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. In the second segment, Rachel Kushner, the author of The Mars Room and Telex From Cuba joined Lucca to discuss an essay she wrote that was included in the October 2018 issue's Readings section, pulled from her memories of the late Nineties New York art world. Subscribe to Harper's for only $16.97: harpers.org/save “Learning to Wait,” Rachel Kushner's latest column for the October issue of Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/learning-to-wait/ Rachel Kushner's latest book, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Hard-Crowd/Rachel-Kushner/9781982157708 Lidija Haas in the Harper's archive: https://harpers.org/author/lidijahaas/ Lidija Haas's review of Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad for Bookforum: https://www.bookforum.com/print/2503/rebecca-traister-s-case-for-feminist-rage-20155 “Red Letter Days,” Rachel Kushner's 2018 essay on the late Nineties New York art world: https://harpers.org/archive/2018/10/red-letter-days/ “What Happened to Gen X?”, our event tonight at the Center for Fiction: https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-center-for-fiction-and-harpers-magazine-present-what-happened-to-gen-x/

In this narrated essay, author Lacy M. Johnson reflects on what can be rebuilt and what must be mourned as our environments shift, fracture, and sometimes disappear. Walking through a wetlands that was once an upscale neighborhood in Houston, Lacy comes into contact with a landscape transformed by oil extraction and subsidence—one haunted by cycles of destruction. Feeling for the edge of change, she examines the value of restoration in the aftermath of disaster, and considers what futures could emerge, what places would survive, if we didn't simply repair what is broken but adapted to what lies ahead.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acclaimed fiction writer Elizabeth McCracken joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell for the show's fifth anniversary. She reads from her new novel, The Hero of This Book, which she wrote during the pandemic, shortly after her mother's death. She also discusses what's involved with tricking herself into writing a novel, particularly one that deals with difficult, almost autobiographical, subject matter.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/. This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Elizabeth McCracken The Hero of This Book The Souvenir Museum Bowlaway Thunderstruck & Other Stories The Giant's House Others: Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4 Episode 12: WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1 Episode 1: MFA vs. Everything: Four Writers Weigh in Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 5 Episode 42: Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4 Episode 25: Tolstoy Forever: Brigid Hughes and Yiyun Li on Retweeting a Russian Classic Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker  “Against Aboutness” by Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Thursday's show: Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him. Also this hour: We discuss how easy -- or challenging -- it is to get around Houston these days, whether by bike, car, public transit, or on foot. Then, Elon Musk says all Tesla employees have to come back to the office — no exceptions. How reasonable is that expectation after years of remote working? We discuss with Houstonians Jill Chapman from Insperity and Michelle Castrow with Workforce Solutions. And when local writer and professor Lacy M. Johnson was charged with collecting stories from Hurricane Harvey, what surprised her the most were the stories she wasn't hearing. That led to a new collection of essays on Houston's relationship with catastrophic flooding called More City than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas.

Novelist Elizabeth Wetmore and essayist and poet Kathryn Nuernberger join hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss Texas's new abortion law. As the Lone Star State's SB8 invites anyone to sue those “abetting” an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, Roe v. Wade has never seemed more at risk. In this episode, Wetmore talks about the Southwest's history of suppressing women's rights to birth control and reads from her novel, Valentine, which takes place in Texas and depicts a cast of women struggling to navigate the aftermath of sexual violence and access to abortion in 1976. Then, Nuernberger reads from her essay collection, The Witch of Eye, and her poetry collection, RUE; she discusses midwives, witch trials, herbalism, torture, and how these subjects help us interpret the history of women's reproductive rights.        To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel, Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and our website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected readings: Elizabeth Wetmore  Valentine "Women and Horses (1976)"   Kathryn Nuernberger The Witch of Eye RUE Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past  The End of Pink Rag & Bone    Others: SB8 “Abortion on the border: Legislation in Texas and criminalization in Chihuahua” by Veronica Martinez (La Verdad) and Victoria Rossi (El Paso Matters) "Abortion on the border: Activists stay resilient" by Veronica Martinez (La Verdad) and Victoria Rossi (El Paso Matters) “What It's Like to Run a Planned Parenthood in Texas” by Olga Khazan (The Atlantic, 2016)  “Why I Violated Texas's Extreme Abortion Ban” by Alan Braid (The Washington Post) Interventions for Women by Angela Hume  Eve's Herbs by John M. Riddle The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo  Regarding the Pain of Others  by Susan Sontag  WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas (Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4, Episode 12)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by author Lacy M. Johnson and novelist Natalia Sylvester. First, Johnson recalls her personal experience through the recent storm, and talks about the ongoing debate over deregulation and privatization of the Texas energy grid. Then, Sylvester unravels the whitewashed, exceptionalist myth of Texas, elevates its Mexican, Black and Indigenous history, and talks about what it means for her, a Latinx, Peruvian immigrant woman, to be a “Texas writer.” Johnson reads from the forthcoming edited volume, More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas; Sylvester reads from her new YA novel, Running. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Lacy M. Johnson More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas (forthcoming, University of Texas Press) The Reckonings: Essays The Other Side: A Memoir Trespasses: A Memoir   Natalia Sylvester Running Everyone Knows You Go Home Chasing the Sun Others: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño Cite Design Alliance  Cormac McCarthy Dear Twin by Addie Tsai Donald Barthelme Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Documentary ERCOT "‘Frozen Windmills' aren't to blame for Texas's power failure" by Salvador Rizzo "Houston is a cheap place to live - if you don't count the trauma tax" by Raj Mankad How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang James A. Michener Katherine Anne Porter Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry Lot and Memorial by Bryan Washington  Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe Outlawed by Anna North "Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market" by James Osborne Public Utilities Commission of Texas Memo Red Salmon Arts by Raúl Salinas Refusing To Forget Project by Benjamin Johnson, John Morán Gonzalez, and Sonia Hernández Tarfia Faizullah "Texas Won't Reduce $16 Billion In Electricity Charges From Winter Storm" by Matthew S. Schwartz The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Taibbi The President's Daughter by Ellen Emerson White The Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein  The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Treme   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s talk, “On Likability” by Lacy M. Johnson, was given at the 2018 Tin House Writers Workshop. It later became an essay, one selected by Rebecca Solnit for The Best American Essays 2019. The post Tin House Live: Craft Talk : Lacy M. Johnson On Likability appeared first on Tin House.

O ludzkim życiu i o dokonaniach można pisać na wiele sposobów. Dziś zachęcamy Was do zapoznania się z czułym spojrzeniem na życie wielkiej i trochę zapomnianej artystki, do posłuchania przejmujących wspomnień o przemocy seksualnej i wychodzeniu z traumy, do spojrzenia na problemy związane z rasizmem i niesprawiedliwością społeczną okiem dobrze wam znanego polityka i działacza, i do odbycia podróży w czasie inspirowanej prawdziwymi dokonaniami fascynującej antropolożki. Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście, to: Agnieszka Dauksza, „Jaremianka”, Znak; Lacy M. Johnson, „The Other Side”, Tin House Books; Barack Obama, „Odziedziczone marzenia”, tłum. Piotr Szymczak, wydawnictwo Agora; Lily King, „Euforia”, tłum. Ewa Ledóchowicz, Rebis. Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze/ Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush

Let's be honest, friends: In the midst of a pandemic, some of us are struggling with our favorite pastime. Even Amy and Erin. So this week, we're talking about how reading became difficult during the first weeks of quarantine, and how we've slowly returned to loving books. We've got picks that helped us, and might help you too. Don't forget to marvel at the source of this week's episode title, "I'm Still Standing," by Elton John. _____Our picks this week: Novels/Fiction:Amy: American War, Omar El AkkadErin: One Story (Short stories / Magazine / Literary Journal); The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros; Choose Your Own Adventure booksOther Books:Amy: The Other Side, Lacy M. Johnson(Memoir)Erin: Burnout, Emily and Amelia Nagoski (Nonfiction)Pop Culture:Amy: Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu) and Netflix is a Joke (Instagram)Erin: John Mulaney stand-up comedy specials(Netflix)

Welcome to Episode 11. This episode Jess has read, The Other Side: A Memoir: Lacy M. Johnson. Lacy had been brutally kidnapped and imprisoned at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, this is her story of a dramatic escape and her road to recovery. Mere is covering the Tickle your Pickle topic our listeners voted for, stalking. Julie Lalonde is an internationally recognized women's rights advocate and public educator who was stalked by an ex-boyfriend for 11 years, this is her story. As always the girls munch and crunch on this weeks pickle product, some Damn Good Popcorn - Pickle Flavored. **(WARNING:This story contains details from true events involving sexual assault and domestic violence some listeners may find disturbing.)

“Through prose that is at once passionate and percussive, Lacy Johnson’s The Reckonings demands that we place justice and discovery at the center of our conversations, memories, imaginations, and art. I don’t know that I’ve ever been happier to be alive after reading any book. In this weird way that probably says way too much about the smallness of […] The post Lacy M. Johnson : The Reckonings appeared first on Tin House.

Today marks one full year of The Stacks, and what an amazing year it has been. The Stacks has every intention of making year two even better. To kick it off we have a real life renaissance man; author, comedian, and podcaster, Ben Blacker. We talk today about the importance of literature as a way to see the humanity in others, the types of anger you can feel toward books, and about Ben's life as a writer of many different mediums, from comic books to teen movies. Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes. The Stacks participates in affiliate programs, and shopping through the links below helps support the show, at no cost to you. Books IndieBound: Support Independent Bookstores Hex Wives by Ben Blacker Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers The Sailor Who Fell From Grace From the Sea by Yukio Mishima Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Awakening by Kate Chopin Macbeth by William Shakespeare Eloquent Rage by Britney Cooper Heavy by Kiese Laymon The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson Shrill by Lindy West Roxane Gay No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol Ta-Nehisi Coates Feel Free by Zadie Smith Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Wild by Cheryl Strayed Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo Empire Falls by Richard Russo Straight Man by Richard Russo Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon The Secret History by Donna Tart The Goldfinch by Donna Tart The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Raymond Chandler The Outsider by Stephen King The Destiny Thief by Richard Russo Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Go Tell it on The Mountain by James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Moo by Jane Smiley Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois All the Pieces Matter by Jonathan Abrams Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng There There by Tommy Orange Becoming by Michelle Obama The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Lorrie Moore Birds of America by Lorrie Moore The Only Rule Is It Has To Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendricks Just the Funny Parts by Nell Scovell Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Angels in America by Tony Kushner Euphoria by Lily King Join the Resistance by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker Undead by Kristy McKay Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Stranded by Jeff Probst Less by Andrew Sean Greer The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Everything Else Ask the Stacks-- askingthestacks@gmail.com The Thrilling Adventure Hour Paul F Tompkins Paget Brewster Josh Malina Busy Phillips Marc Evan Jackson Jon Hamm J.K. Simmons Beyond Belief- "Wishing Hell" (The Thrilling Adventure Hour, ForeverDog Podcast Network) Dead Pilots Society (Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich Maximum Fun Network The Writers Panel with Ben Blacker (Forever Dog Podcast Network, ATX Television Festival) Episode 2 - Only Child written by John Hodgman (Dead Pilots Society) Pen15 (Hulu) Maya Erskine Anna Konkle The Second City Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB) Shrill (Hulu) The Rumpus New York Times Book Review Paul Newman Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton, 1994) Empire Falls (HBO) Ep. 6 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin — The Stacks Book Club (The Stacks) If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018) Ep. 48 Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah — The Stacks Book Club (The Stacks) The Wire (HBO) Ozark (Netflix) The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) Grey's...

The Reckonings made The Stacks favorite books of 2018, and today we're talking with the author of that essay collection, Lacy M. Johnson. The Reckonings is a meditation on justice and mercy in relationship to some of the most complex issues of the current moment. Johnson joins us to discuss how this collection came to be, what inspired her in her writing, and what snacks she ate along the way. Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes. The Stacks participates in affiliate programs, and shopping through the links below (mostly Amazon) helps support the show, at no cost to you. The Reckonings by Lacy M. JohnsonThe Other Side by Lacy M. JohnsonLeslie Jill PattersonThe Autobiography of an Execution by David R. DowJust Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Étienne-Jules MareyGillian FlynnGirl on the Train by Paula HawkinsRebecca SolnitWilliam ShakespeareThe Legacy MuseumThe National Memorial for Peace and JusticeHeavy by Kiese LaymonLiving a Feminist Life by Sara AhmedEloquent Rage by Britney CooperWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngelo Connect with Lacy: Lacy's Website | Lacy's Twitter | Lacy's Instagram | Lacy's Facebook Connect with The Stacks: Instagram | The Stacks Website | Facebook | Twitter | Subscribe | Patreon | Goodreads | Traci's Instagram To contribute to The Stacks, join The Stacks Pack, and get exclusive perks, check out our Patreon page. We are beyond grateful for anything you're able to give to support the production of this show. If you prefer to do a one time contribution go to paypal.me/thestackspod. Sponsors Audible- to get your FREE audiobook download and FREE 30 day trial go to audibletrial.com/thestacks. The Stacks received The Reckonings from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. For more information click here. The Stacks participates in affiliate programs. We receive a small commission when products are purchased through links on this website, and this comes at no cost to you. Shopping through these links helps support the show, but does not effect opinions on books and products. For more information click here.

Its the last day of 2018, and we're celebrating with our very own wrap up, New Year's Eve show. We brought back friend of the pod, Lauren Fanella (who you might remember from episodes 15 and 16, where we talked about Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore). Lauren joins me to talk about each of our top five books from 2018, and the five books we're most looking forward to in 2019. Get your TBR ready! "Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella" (The Stacks) "Ep. 16 Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks, Traci Thomas) Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore The Pisces by Melissa Broder The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight Pictures) So Sad Today by Melissa Broder Melissa Broder Twitter Bad Blood by John Carreyrou "Ep. 28 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks, Traci Thomas) Jennifer Lawrence The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner "Ep. 22 The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks, Traci Thomas) All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin Grey's Anatomy (ABC) There There by Tommy Orange All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung The Ensemble by Aja Gabel The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurtson Alice Walker Motherhood by Sheila Heti "Ep. 24 Motherhood by Sheila Heti -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks) "Ottessa Moshfegh Reads Sheila Heti"(The New Yorker: Fiction, WNYC Studios and The New Yorker) My Year of Rest of Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh "My Life is a Joke" by Sheila Heti The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson Ta-Nehisi Coates The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles Heavy by Kiese Laymon Eloquent Rage by Britney Cooper Dare to Lead by Brené Brown The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Becoming by Michelle Obama Tangerine by Christine Mangan How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Normal People by Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Lot by Bryan Washington "Waugh" (Bryan Washington, The New Yorker) The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Columbine by Dave Cullen Parkland by Dave Cullen Lost Children Archive by Valreia Luiselli Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli Black is the Body by Emily Bernard The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Jami Attenberg All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Connect with Lauren: Lauren's Instagram|Lauren's Twitter Connect with The Stacks: Instagram|The Stacks Website|Facebook|Twitter|Subscribe|Patreon|Goodreads|Traci's Instagram To contribute to The Stacks, join The Stacks Pack, and get exclusive perks, check out our Patreon page. We are beyond grateful for anything you're able to give to support the production of this show. If you prefer to do a one time contribution go to paypal.me/thestackspod. Sponsors Audible- to get your FREE audiobook download and FREE 30 day trial go to audibletrial.com/thestacks. My Mentor Book Club - for 50% off your first month of new nonfiction from My Mentor Book Club...

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—and Brett Kavanaugh's irate response—was an excruciating bit of political theater, complete with righteous speeches from both sides of the aisle. (It also proved to be not much more than spectacle, as Kavanaugh was sworn in as an Associate Justice earlier this week.) Nevertheless, this event illustrated of how we are socialized to perform and understand gender, race, and class. In this week's episode, new books columnist Lidjia Haas joins Web Editor Violet Lucca to discuss a handful of recent publications that deal with these issues: Lacy M. Johnson's The Reckonings, Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad, and Kristen M. Ghoddsee's Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. In the second segment, Rachel Kushner, the author of The Mars Room and Telex From Cuba joins Lucca to discuss an essay she wrote which was included in the October Readings section, pulled from her memories of the late Nineties New York art world.

As boomers, we know all too well that many of our cherished values are being undermined and even mocked in today’s social and political climate. However, there is some awfully good news. Young women are coming to the fore and making real strides in speaking out to change things. One of those remarkable women is our guest today.  Lacy M. Johnson wrote about her horrendous experience of being kidnapped and raped in her highly acclaimed book, The Other Side. Now, she is exploring the aftermath of her experience and her thoughts regarding true justice for the perpetrator and herself in this riveting and thoughtful collection of essays. It’s called The Reckonings and Lacy is joining us to share all about it. If you care about the #metoo movement and making the world a better place for girls and women, you are going to want to be sure to catch this show! 

This week we are joined by author and journalist, Nancy Rommelmann. Nancy talks to us about her newest book To The Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder, her process as an investigative journalist, and about the time she traveled to see John Wayne Gacy on death row. You can find everything we talk about this week in the show notes below. By shopping through the links you help support The Stacks, at no cost to you. Shop on Amazon and iTunes. BOOKS To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward Destination Gacy by Nancy Rommelmann Columbine by Dave Cullen Wanderer by Sterling Hayden Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Barbarian Days by William Finnegan A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson The Landmark Julius Caesar by Kurt A. Raaflaub The Power Broker by Robert Caro The Passage by Justin Cronin The Twelve by Justin Cronin Valley of the Kings by Terrance Coffey Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande Deborah Reed Life After Life by Kate Atkinson City of Thieves by David Benioff Alias Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos Joan Didion Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion After Henry by Joan Didion Lost Girls by Robert Kolker Sahara Unveiled by William Langewiesche The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown Netherland by Joseph O'Neill The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales  Othello by William Shakespeare The Odyssey by Homer Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gita Sereny All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor Edie by Jean Stein Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker The Queens of Montague Street by Nancy Rommelmann The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin J.M. Coetzee Raymond Chandler Bad Blood by John Carreyrou EVERYTHING ELSE LA Weekly Cults (Parcast Network) Heaven's Gate (Stitcher / Pineapple Street Media) "Taking My Ex Back In (for His Own Good)" (Nancy Rommelmann, New York Times) The Godfather (Paramount Pictures) Reason.com Wall Street Journal Book Review The New Yorker "Why Atul Gawande Will Soon Be The Most Feared CEO In Healthcare" (Robert Pearl, M.D., Forbes) Game of Thrones (HBO) Amanda Peet @25inFive Instagram Readathon Account William Langewiesche at Vanity Fair William Langewiesche at the Atlantic Patrick Melrose (Showtime) Connect with Nancy: Nancy's Instagram|Nancy's Twitter|Nancy's Website Connect with The Stacks: Instagram|The Stacks Website|Facebook|Twitter|Subscribe|Patreon|Goodreads|Traci's Instagram To contribute to The Stacks, join The Stacks Pack, and get exclusive perks, check out our Patreon page. We are beyond grateful for anything you're able to give to support the production of this show. If you prefer to do a one time contribution go to paypal.me/thestackspod. Sponsors Audible- to get your FREE audiobook download and FREE 30 day trial go to audibletrial.com/thestacks. My Mentor Book Club - for 50% off your first month of new nonfiction from My Mentor Book Club go to mymentorbookclub.com/thestacks The Stacks participates in affiliate programs. We receive a small commission when products are purchased through links on this website. Shopping through these links helps support the show, but does not effect my opinions on...

Dominic and Cymene report from Scotland where they have arrived for what looks to be an amazing Petrocultures 2018 event. Some talk of haggis and whiskey follows. But it’s also the anniversary of Hurricane Harvey back in Houston and to process how we feel about that (11:07) we invite our dear colleague, Lacy M. Johnson (http://www.lacymjohnson.com) into THE STUDIO to talk about where we find our heads at one year later. We talk about whether Harvey has shifted Houstonians’ willingness to accept climate change and Lacy talks about her own Harvey experience and how it motivated her to develop the Houston Flood Museum project, a virtual museum that launched this week (https://houstonfloodmuseum.org). Lacy explains why she thinks “discovery” might be a better way to think about life post-trauma rather than “recovery” and why it was compassion rather than strength that helped us through the disaster. We talk about her writing process and then turn from there to Lacy’s forthcoming book, The Reckonings (Simon & Schuster, http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Reckonings/Lacy-M-Johnson/9781501159008), a marvelous collection of essays. We spend a little extra time on her harrowing account of the 43,000 tons of nuclear waste that were dumped in a North St. Louis landfill in the 1970s and the smoldering underground fire that is edging ever closer to the site. In closing, Lacy explains why we need to give ourselves permission to feel joy in an imperfect world because joy is a form that justice takes.

“[Lacy M. Johnson’s] powerfully moving and brilliantly structured memoir, The Other Side, asks, ‘How is it possible to reclaim the body after devastating violence?’ Her intense desire and demand for a life lived in the body is triumphant. Johnson’s strength to free not only her physical self, but also to move through years of incapacitating […] The post Lacy M. Johnson : The Other Side appeared first on Tin House.