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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

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By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 20 2008, 8:12 AM ET Comment

I'm headed to the Bay Area for a week. Where can I get a decent cut?

UPDATE: Sorry folks, was on a plane out west all day. I'm out here now at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Nothing public, regrettably, though I'm starting to think when I travel I should do meet-ups. The better to meet all five of my readers. Anyway, I would pull something together impromptu, but I'm here with Kenyatta. And when not with her, I'm gonna be closing a piece for the magazine. I'll be back at the start of the year, hawking the paperback of my memoir. Thanks for all the recommendations.

And yeah, about the Cowboys. I think that trade for Roy Williams is going to haunt us for a couple years. Giving up a first-rounder for a WR, when the defense is getting gashed week in and week out, was stupid.




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