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G'Ra Asim is a writer, a musician, and assistant professor of creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. His debut nonfiction book, Boyz n the Void- a mixtape to my brother blends memoir, cultural criticism and personal essays framed as letters to his younger brother, exploring blackness, masculinity and punk culture. The book was named one of the best nonfiction titles of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews. Asim's writing has appeared in publications like Slate, Salon, Guernica, The New Republic and The Boston Globe. He previously served as writing director at the African American Policy Forum and a graduate teaching fellow at Columbia University. As a musician, he sings, plays bass and writes lyrics for the DIY pop punk band Baby Got Back Talk, recognized by Alternative Press as one of ""rising Black alternative bands"" and by Idobi as one of ""100 Rising Artists to Listen to."" Their full-length debut, Genre Reveal Party, was named one of 500 Essential Pop Punk Albums by Ruffian Books.
“99 Problems Finding the 1 is a tour de force . . . a kaleidoscopic descent into love’s endless labyrinths and one of the smartest portraits of loving while Black put to page.” —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of This Is How You Lose Her “99 Problems Finding the 1 is no standard lament of the lovelorn. It’s a trenchantly wise and wisecracking how-to-manual for maintenance of the human heart in the face of bleak indifference and ruthlessly organized hatreds. It’s also a deeply felt, wonder-full affirmation of the unlikely head rush of being alive—as well as a dispassionate inventory of the ever-wider race-addled, socioeconomic conspiracy to render that awareness unthinkable. It may be an ambivalent, unresolved chronicle of G’Ra Asim’s own quest for abiding love, but it’s an amazingly generous and indispensable work of what he calls ‘thinkful wishing’—and thus an act of writerly love that legions of readers should joyfully requite.” —Chris Lehmann, DC bureau chief of The Nation and contributing editor at The Baffler
Intimacy - Men and their love relationships...
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