nprbooks: Damon Young – founder of Very Smart Brothas – has a new memoir-in-essays out,
nprbooks: Damon Young – founder of Very Smart Brothas – has a new memoir-in-essays out, called What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker. Our critic Gabino Iglesias says Young “pulls readers into his world, showing them his vulnerability, hitting them with unflinching honesty about the state of race relations in this country, and keeping them glued to the pages with his wit and humor.” Young also talked to our own Scott Simon about the book – check out their conversation here.– Petra -- source link