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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.
Michael Rosenwald • ‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’
dangerous delusions: entitlement, control, and paranoia.
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
Mike Koenigs and Marissa Brassfield:
Justin Donald • The Lifestyle Investor: The 10 Commandments of Cash Flow Investing for Passive Income and Financial Freedom
“Gould looked like a bum and lived like a bum,” Mitchell wrote. “He wore castoff clothes, and he slept in flophouses or in the cheapest rooms in cheap hotels. Sometimes he slept in doorways. He spent most of his time hanging out in diners and cafeterias and barrooms in the Village or wandering around the streets or looking up friends and acquaintan... See more