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The author grew up in Jersey and knows all the designer jackets, sneakers, and things.
— Sep 08, 2022 06:18PM
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It's a weekend for conflated images of the author's father persevering through endless shelves of classic books and former superstar pro athletes--Adrian Peterson, Le'Veon Bell, and Nick Young--slugging it out in the boxing ring--the former requiring a lifetime's efforts, the latter reminiscent of Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame or better yet F. Scott Fitzgerald's "There are no second acts in American lives"?
— Sep 11, 2022 07:08AM
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Sep 08, 2022 08:10PM
The thesis of this book seems patently absurd to me—feel like a lot of contemporary very smart bookish poets/theorists (eg, Fred Moten, Simone White) who have written extensively on hip hop and black popular culture generally would tear this guy to shreds.
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I should say that I am enjoying the book, and particularly the father figure, who reminds me of a kind of intellectual black man you can find here and there in Philadelphia--a possibly marginalized guy, a guy whose intellectual qualities and love of good books may not be fully recognized by larger society--not perfectly unlike the figure of the adjunct instructor, and you can find overlap here and there. Williams, the son, has written some good pieces for Harper's.
