Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

"[The author] uses pop culture and persona as entryways to explore themes such as family, friendship, race, love, and police brutality within the lives of his Midwestern black speakers"--

The Crown Ain't Worth Much

insanely beautiful , having read this after reading his later work this is still so powerful and moving and very beautiful reflections around grief and navigating being a black person who has “made it out” the hood especially in pursuit of academia. i think hanif may just be one of the most precious thinkers alive

juneau

Eugenia G

** spoiler alert **
           “I think I'm better now. I still watch a couple dance with their smiling children in a park and I want to tell them how easy it is for all of us to wake up next to someone who never will again. I am like you. I still want to feast on the happiest moments of strangers. I don't know what this makes men like us except bound to our loneliness,...”

The Crown Ain't Worth Much

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