Let me tell you, there are several hundred things I would rather be doing than watching the sun rise from the Portland airport, although this is the thing that I have most recently done. Unfortunately, this is all I’m going to get to see of the Rose City. So without further ado, your briefing.
Ta-Nehisi Coates pens a love song of sorts to his days at Howard, U Street, his search for the Real and, finally, Biggie Smalls.
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Poet Mark Irwin talks about the evil word “if.”
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Kevin Stein has a new book coming out.
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The calls start for Dungy’s non-playoff-winning head.
