Shea Serrano
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A New York Times—bestselling, in-depth exploration of the most pivotal moments in rap music from 1979 to 2014.
Here's what The Rap Year Book does: It takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present, with Shea Serrano hilariously discussing, debating, and deconstructing the most important rap song year by year. Serrano also examines the...
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"Movies (And Other Things) is a book about, quite frankly, movies (and other things). One of the chapters, for example, answers which race Kevin Costner was able to white savior the best, because did you know that he white saviors Mexicans in McFarland, USA, and white saviors Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, and white saviors Black people in Black or White, and white saviors the Cleveland Browns in Draft Day? Another of the chapters, for a...
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"Hip-hop (and other things) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things. It spends the entirety of its time celebrating what has become the most dominant form of music these past two and a half decades. Tupac is in there. Jay Z is in there. Missy Elliott is in there. Drake is in there. Pretty much all of the big names are in there, as are a bunch of the smaller names, too. There's art from illustrator Arturo Torres, there are infographics...
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Todo lo que siempre quisiste saber (o no) sobre la NBA y nunca te atreviste a preguntar
Michael Jordan está considerado el mejor jugador de baloncesto de todos los tiempos, pero ¿en qué temporada fue Jordan la mejor versión de sí mismo? ¿Qué mates entran en el Salón de la Fama de los mates insolentes? ¿Qué rasgos definen al villano arquetípico del baloncesto? ¿Cuál ha sido el dúo perfecto de la historia de la NBA? Baloncesto (y otras...
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#1 New York Times bestseller
Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jordan was the best Michael Jordan? What is allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things) presents readers with a whole new set of pivotal and ridiculous fan disputes from basketball history, providing arguments and answers, explained with the wit and wisdom that is unique