The New York Times’s Alexandra Alter interviews “America’s foremost public intellectual” and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates on his newfound success and public hail—which he both appreciates and is ambivalent about, it seems:
The best part of writing is really to educate yourself. I don’t want to be anybody’s expert. I came in to learn.
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