Episode 878 - Ta-Nehisi Coates

WTF with Marc Maron : Episode 878 - Ta-Nehisi Coates Image
WTF with Marc Maron : Episode 878 - Ta-Nehisi Coates Image

Episode 878 - Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of America’s most celebrated and insightful writers. But there’s part of him that would be fine with it all going away. Marc and Ta-Nehisi talk about the impulse to pull back when things start to get good, the burden of being treated as a representative for a larger community, and the reason Ta-Nehisi finds Black Panther so relatable. They also discuss two of Ta-Nehisi’s biggest influences: James Baldwin and David Carr. This episode is sponsored by SimpliSafe.