Video Q&A: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Posted on 20 April 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

BookPage is proud to present our first video author interview: a Q&A with Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture. His 2007 Washington Post column on the pernicious effects of hip-hop culture on African Americans was based on his own experience, and the book is both personal and universal as it chronicles Williams’ youthful struggle between the worlds of street cred and college credits.

Friend of BookPage Stephenie Harrison came up with a few brilliant questions for the Penguin Press publicity department to ask Williams during a visit to their NYC offices. His answers are sure to make you think.


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One Response to Video Q&A: Thomas Chatterton Williams

  1. Steph says:
    20 April 2010 at 10:55 am

    I loved this interview, and not just because I came up with the questions! ;) I thought Williams’s answers were really thoughtful and insightful, and as you said, they really made me think. Definitely interested in checking out his book.