Hanif Abdurraqib, Author
Jul 25, 2021
3 minutes
BY CRAIG FEHRMAN
Photo by MEGAN LEIGH BARNARD
In 2017, The Village Voice’s Greil Marcus raved about your essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us. “Not a day has sounded the same since I read him” is the line that often gets quoted, but I wanted to ask you about another one. Marcus identified you as “a pop critic from Columbus, Ohio.” How has coming from Columbus shaped you as a writer?
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