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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.

The Broad Sweep Of Nerdcore

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Aug 23 2010, 10:30 AM ET Comment

Two more guest posters today. The awesome Lorin Stein joins us. Lorin edits The Paris Review and in his old gig as an editor at Farrar Straus and Giroux, he introduced to the awesome Frederick Seidel.

Aaron Schatz from Football Outsiders is also going to blog here this week. We've linked to him before, and I'm really looking forward to his read on the season.

Treat them like family guys.


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