THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR
It might do all of us some good to reconsider what 'making it' even means.
Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged -- and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling.
There's Always This Year is a triumph from one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers. It brims with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject, Abdurraqib's exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, and ourselves.
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ABDURRAQIB HANIF
Columbus, Ohio, 25 de agosto de 1983 Es un fenómeno de la literatura contemporánea. Poeta, ensayista y crítico musical, saltó al estrellato literario en 2017 con su primer libro de ensayos: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us. Anteriormente había publicado su primer libro de poesía: The Crown Ain't Worth Much, en 2016; logrando una nominación al premio Hurston-Wright Legacy y Vintage Sadness, nombrado uno de los libros del año por The Los Angeles Tribune. Además de otros libros, ha escrito ensayos y críticas musicales en The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker y The New York Times. Con Un diablillo en América A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Abdurraqib consiguió la Medalla Andrew Carnegie 2022 a la Excelencia en No Ficción y el Premio Gordon Burn.
