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Thomas Chatterton Williams

Losing My Cool

Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd

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A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Into Williams's childhood home-a one-story ranch house-his father crammed more books than the local library could hold. Pappy used some of these volumes to run an academic prep service; the rest he used in his unending pursuit of wisdom. His son's pursuits were quite different-money, hoes, and clothes. The teenage Williams wore Medusa- faced Versace sunglasses and a hefty gold medallion, dumbed down and thugged up his speech, and did whatever else he could to fit into the intoxicating hi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-101-40434-8
  • EAN: 9781101404348
  • Produktnummer: 17992667
  • Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 226 KB

Über den Autor


Thomas Chatterton Williams holds a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Georgetown University and a Master's degree from the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. In 2007, he wrote an op-ed piece entitled Yes, Blame Hip-Hop for the Washington Post which generated a record-breaking number of comments. He writes for the literary magazine n+1 and currently lives in Brooklyn.

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