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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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For The New Yorker Who Loves Poetry

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Apr 14 2009, 3:00 PM ET Comment

Tonight I, along with Benjamin Kunkel, have the honor of reading from the work of Frederick Seidel at Russian Samovar. We'll open for Sam Lipsyte, who will be reading from his novel in progress, "The Ask." Come out, if you can. If you're a commenter, I may even buy you a drink. 

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