RECORDED January 8, 2015 9AM Eastern: I was excited to speak with writer Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of the book Losing My Cool . He’s just published a powerful essay appearing in Virginia Quarterly Review called “Black and Blue and Blond.” Williams has a fascinating story and he’s a great writer who is pushing the discussion about the Mixed experience forward with new questions and new approaches. You can download our conversation from itunes. Or you can listen to the episode here.–Heidi Durrow
THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS is an American writer living in Paris. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the American Scholar, the Atlantic, n+1, Lui and many other places. His first book, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd (Penguin Press, 2010), is a memoir that explores the extent to which, growing up in the hip-hop era, Williams bought into misguided and limited notions of his own blackness, which he later rejected. He is currently at work on a novel and a screenplay.
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