Our next Lunch & Literature will be on Tuesday, February 7 at 12:30pm in the library seminar room. Our selection is Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams.
The book grew out of an op-ed article that Williams wrote in 2007. He details the contrast between life inside and outside his house, where hip-hop culture competed with his father's intellectual influence, and how he ultimately chose an academic life.
Williams' website contains a lot of great information, including a playlist that goes along with the book.
Finally, here is an interview with Williams and his father:
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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