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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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In Praise Of Cougartown

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mar 17 2010, 11:00 AM ET Comment

I was a little hard on the show when I first came on, but I think it's gotten funnier as it goes along. And it's a particular kind of funny. It's not brainy, Arrested Development funny. It's escapist funny. Like, "I just need to not think for a moment" funny. I don't mean that as a dis, as I think escapist funny is an art onto itself. I just wish they didn't have to call the show "Cougartown." The title doesn't even really fit the show.

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