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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.

Brooklyn, we go hard

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jan 6 2009, 12:53 PM ET Comment

Friends,

The paperback of the Beautiful Struggle, my memoir of growing up in West Baltimore during the Crack Age, while addicted to D&D, X-Men and Public Enemy.

More to the point I'll be taking a break from Warcraft, and reading at 7 P.M. this evening at the Court Street Barnes and Noble, in Brooklyn. Please come out--but only if you plan to tell me how awesome I am. Life is short. And my ego is fragile.



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