28-10-2015 04:37 via thestranger.com

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Marvel

A Group of Writers Discuss the Power of MacArthur Genius Ta-Nehisi Coates's Journalism, Nonfiction, and Comic-Book NerderyAfter reading Ta-Nehisi Coates's epistolary memoir, Between the World and Me, Toni Morrison endorsed his effort by saying: "I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates."Of course, Baldwin was a swinging, gay, world-traveling jazzman, and Coates is a historian and policy wonk, but when Morris
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