Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Apr 2010 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Thomas Chatterton Williams

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A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Georgetown University and a master's degree from the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. In 2007, he wrote an op-ed piece entitled "Yes, Blame Hip-Hop" for the Washington Post, which generated a record-breaking number of comments. He writes for the literary magazine n+1 and currently lives in Brooklyn.

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