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Hua Hsu - Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College and writes about music, sports, and culture.
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Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College and writes about music, sports, and culture. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Bookforum, Slate, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe Ideas section and The Wire (for whom he writes a bi-monthly column). He is on the editorial board for the New Literary History of America.

"Legalize Kemp"

By Hua Hsu
Oct 28 2009, 3:29 PM ET Comment

Last night marked the opening of a new NBA season. The perfect modern sports league, really, and I don't mean that in a good way.

If you have a couple hours to kill, this is a fairly moving, charmingly biased, labor-of-love documentary about the NBA's willful negligence during the much-protested move of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City.


Sonicsgate SD Full Version from sonicsgate on Vimeo.



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