Hanif Abdurraqib on Practicing Discipline & Delight

“Most of the things that take me to writing are things I don’t talk about publicly or things I don’t share publicly. I need to keep those as my own, I need to keep those close to me so that I might still feel good about them.”

Hanif Abdurraqib is the author of The Little Devil in America (2021), A Fortune for Your Disaster (2019) and They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), and the book of cultural criticism Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest(2019), which was names as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Hanif Abdurraqib on Practicing Discipline & Delight

“Most of the things that take me to writing are things I don’t talk about publicly or things I don’t share publicly. I need to keep those as my own, I need to keep those close to me so that I might still feel good about them.”

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