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A Room of One’s Own Bookstore hosted author Hanif Abdurraqib in his first reading of a fall tour Sept. 5, 2024. The event was introduced by Fawzy Taylor, A Room of One’s Own’s social media marketing ...
On Feb. 26, university alumnus and critically acclaimed author Hanif Abdurraqib returned to campus to speak to a group of students and staff about his life and career.
Hanif Abdurraqib received the award for criticism for There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House). Memorializing his late mother, who “when she was not working two ...
Author Hanif Abdurraqib delivers an NBA playoffs essay inspired by his book, 'There's Always This Year: On Basketball & Ascension'.
NEW YORK (AP) — Receiving a literary prize from the American Library Association is a kind of homecoming for the essayist-poet Hanif Abdurraqib. “When I was young, I treated the library as a place to ...
A prolific poet, essayist and cultural critic, and the recipient of a 2021 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Hanif Abdurraqib is the author, most recently, of A Little Devil in America (Random House, 2021), a ...
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet and the author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest and A Little Devil in America. In 2021, he was named a MacArthur fellow. Her mighty contralto ...