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Black Nerd Problems authors to appear in Columbus

Black Nerd Problems authors to appear in Columbus
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Editor s picks: 10 best new books to read in September

Editor s picks: 10 best new books to read in September
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Nonfiction Book Review: Black Nerd Problems: Essays by William Evans and Omar Holmon Gallery, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-982150-23-5

Bookshop Evans and Holmon, cofounders of the website Black Nerd Problems, bring their pop culture criticism to this wide-ranging, compulsively readable debut collection. Touching on such topics as the hidden depths of boxing-inspired anime Hajime no Ippo, the irony of Hamilton’s steep ticket prices, and Game of Thrones’s one Black character, Evans and Holman are often hilarious ( The Lion King’s “Simba. is straight up landfill. Trash. Rubbage”) and always original. In addition to straightforward essays, some entries come in the form of high-octane, joyful dialogue between the authors, as in “Two Dope Boys and an—Oh My God, the Flash Got Fucked Up!” for example, in which the authors discuss the Flash: “I ain’t ever seen a hero get their body Earth’d like that since Superman’s funeral.” The most gripping essays use cultural events as an entry point to discuss larger topics: Evans’s “The Sobering

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