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NYT Bestseller. Kirkus Prize winner. Puffin Fellow @typemediacenter. Distinguished Writer-in-Residence @Hunter_College. Host “Open Form” @lithubradio
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My Father, the Midcentury Man—With a Lifetime of Secrets

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By Mychal Denzel Smith Verified
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Trans teacher forced to use wrong pronouns at school is fleeing her state: “I don’t trust Florida” All it would take is one false allegation that I requested that certain pronouns be used for me, and that could be it. Saoirse Stone is leaving …
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My Father, the Midcentury Man—With a Lifetime of Secrets Original

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By Mychal Denzel Smith Verified
| The New Republic Verified
I had always read James Baldwin’s declaration “I want to be an honest man and a good writer”as a statement of artistic ambition—the kind of thing a young person, defining themselves for the world, says in order to be taken seriously. It comes at the end of “Autobiographical Notes,” the introduction to his first essay collection Notes of a Native Son, where he declares that he has no hobbies, no interest in anything else that is not his work.
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The sad truth about Kanye West’s comeback

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By Mychal Denzel Smith Verified
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
The sad truth about Kanye West’s comeback It seemed for a while that Ye, the artist known for most of his career as Kanye West, might be a permanent industry pariah. In 2022, several months after he tweeted, “Death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE,” he appeared on InfoWars with noted antisemite and right-wing provocateur Nick Fuentes, telling host Alex Jones, “I like Hitler.
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