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A 2007 op-ed piece—"Yes, Blame Hip-Hop," that ran in the Washington Post while he was a student at NYU—attracted widespread attention (then-Senator Barack Obama made note of it)—and helped serve as a springboard for what is now a book-length case as Thomas Chatterton Williams is here with his book, Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture (Penguin Press). A BA graduate in philosophy from Georgetown who went on for a master's in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU, Thomas Chatterton Williams writes of his coming-of-age, the pulls felt from popular culture he was most predominantly exposed to, and that of the world held out by his father—a man who grew up in the segregated south having to hide in closets in order to read. This chronicle of the choices the author sees—and the ones he's making—should provoke discussion, whether one does the 'talk' of reading to oneself, or the lively conversation that could ensue here this evening.
