I’ve been reading Ta-Nehisi since his time at the Village Voice back in the day. We’ve been linking to is blog for a hot minute now, because we sorta wanna be him when we grow up. (We got the hip-hop-loving, hood-raised, left-tilting political junkie part down).
I finally got to meet him at a book reading* for his new memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, which is so gorgeously written it almost begs to be read aloud.
Couple things:
1) Dude is tall. Like, NBA 2-guard, tall.
2) Ta-Nehisi, after I told him I was a big fan of his blog: ‘I don’t know if you wanna know this, but I write that in the morning in my t-shirt and draws.’
3) He reads PostBourgie. Oh, word? Amped.
*I had my phone off at the reading, so Stacia was calling excitedly about Edwards endorsing Obama and I completely missed it. I was hating when I found out she was there; she was hating when I told her where I was. So it’s a push.
Writing it in his drawers makes it THAT much better. How… organic. LOL.
I always pictured him as short and kinda chubby. Especially since he wrote about getting jumped when he was a kid. Dude is a damn fine writer, though. I’ve got to cop his memoir.
in the drawls eh?
I hope my copy is in the mail!!
I was thinking about this last week during Lani Guinier’s talk on campus. Is it weird to get all geeked about meeting academics or writers?
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