The book I thought with the most this year was Victor Ray’s On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care. Kate was our guest on Episode 227, where she discussed her book Do the Work!Īuthor of Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons I bought this “film for the hands,” as Lewis describes it, for my wife for Christmas, but really I got it so we can read it together. To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis. I’ve had the honor of reading this in ARC form and cannot wait for the final, glorious book.
The only thing wrong is thinking that any person, living in any type of body, is less valuable than someone else.”īook I’m looking forward to reading in 2023: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille Dungy. I can’t think of any other cookbook that includes lines like “There is nothing wrong with being fat. Sure, the recipes are really fantastic, but what got me is how quietly radical the book is: sandwiched between a chicken cutlet recipe and one for a baked spinach and artichoke dip is a short essay titled “On the Worthiness Of Our Bodies.” It’s a deeply personal and powerful rejection of diet culture, internalized fatphobia and how the culture of “healthy eating” culture too often functions as a front for disordered eating. And I’m really not an avid reader of cookbooks or food writing but special shoutout to Simply Julia by Julia Turshen. I can go into these poems again and again and always find something new. The best book of poetry was Time is a Motherby Ocean Vuong because, seriously, everything that Ocean writes and says is just beyond brilliant and gorgeous. She writes with respect, compassion, clarity, and depth, especially when she goes in on the twin traumas of police violence and COVID on Black, Latinx, and undocumented folks. I absolutely love everything about this sprawling, ambitious novel set in California’s Inland Empire, and I can’t think of another white author I would trust to explore the experiences and identities of a multiethnic cast of characters than Straight. The best book of fiction was Mecca by Susan Straight. I will read anything that Castillo writes, and this book is no exception. A trenchant and sly and super-readable, super-smart collection of essays that lays bare how much white supremacy fucks up all aspects of literature, from the reader’s experience with language and story and the page to the limits of the captalist publishing imagination.
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The best book of non-fiction I read in 2022 was How To Read Now by Elaine Castillo.
Without further ado, here are the winners of the first ever The Stackies. You earn awesome perks (bonus episodes, the aforementioned discord, virtual book club, reading tracker, and more) and you get to know your money (only $5 a month) is going toward a Black woman run independent book podcast. If you want to join all the fun of The Stacks Pack please head to /thestacksto join in. They are also all hyperlinked to so you can shop while you read. I have included the winners and the finalists in each category. There was one round of nominations, one round of general voting, and one round for finalists. The nominations and voting was open only to members of The Stacks Pack. She is a rock star and I am so grateful she took the reins when I simply could not. And thus, The Stackies were born.īefore I get to the awards themselves I have to say thank you to Elisah who put together the form and ran ran all the rounds of voting.
There were lively debates happening on The Stacks discord channel, and one TSP member decided we should have our own awards. This year, as all the book awards and best of lists were coming out, The Stacks Pack was not into what they were seeing. I am forever grateful for this generous community. They are the most ardent fans of the show, and they believe in putting their money behind this little indie book podcast. The Stacks Pack is The Stacks community on Patreon.
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