Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece, Shuggie Bain
Bay Area Book Festival Podcast
English - August 07, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture interview comedy news health entrepreneurship culture politics books leadership business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Douglas Stuart enraptured readers worldwide in 2020 when his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, took the world’s top literary award, the Booker Prize. Shuggie Bain was a labor of love that drew from his own history of childhood poverty, hardship, and devotion to a mother whose addiction struggles were intensified by a broken system. Stuart is interviewed by Casey Gerald, who gained fame with a viral TED talk, “The Gospel of Doubt.” Like Stuart, Gerald grew up queer, shaped by poverty and parental addiction.