Mychal Denzel Smith

@mychalsmith

Black writer. Author of (NYT Bestseller) INVISIBLE MAN, GOT THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHING (2016) and STAKES IS HIGH (2020). For booking: laura@freshspeakers.com

Brooklyn
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Joined April 2010
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    Aug 21

    At this weekend? Please join us for a conversation on blackness at the intersection of media, art and activist. Panelist includes

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    Heads up! We're teaming up with to bring you a 🔥 panel discussion in on black experience in and art. Moderated by , the panel will highlight how black creatives use different mediums to tell ‘our stories for us.’ Come through!
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  2. Aug 7

    I wrote a brief (and wholly inadequate) remembrance of Toni Morrison

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    Aug 7

    In memory of Toni Morrison, , , , , and on a world-expanding novelist and towering intellect:

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  4. Jul 31

    Cory Booker just gentrified “all up in the kool-aid, don’t even know the flavor” and I will never forgive him

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  5. Jul 10

    Chloe is smart, listen to Chloe

    Some books you should pre-order: GODLAND, by NICE TRY, by THE PRETTY ONE, by STAKES IS HIGH, by
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    Jul 8

    A v. short thread of things I read last month that I quite enjoyed v. much: Virginia essay in the Oxford American -

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  7. Jun 28

    . is looking forward to my next book, put it on a list and everything

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    Jun 28

    Just got round to reading this gorgeous, important reflection by <3 on his home, Virginia -- Jefferson, Pharrell, oppression, shame & history-making. "It is a confused place, but its confusion is of its own making"

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  9. Jun 26

    After this, I seriously hope you’re never allowed to write again

    "I don't understand the Wayfair walkout. Isn’t our whole complaint that migrant kids are being treated badly? Shouldn’t we want companies to sell the government toothpaste and soap and beds and so forth? What am I missing here?"
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    Jun 14

    I've never read anything other than a new story about Virginia Beach in my life - I'm a PAHS grad just a few years ahead of and reading this was emotional in a way i never expected - thanks, dude

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    Jun 13

    The best (the only?) thing I've read about Virginia Beach and Virginia that gets it just right in every way. This is amazing, .

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    Jun 15

    Loved reading this essay from on making meaning of home, Pharrell, history, and Virginia.

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  13. Jun 13

    Let Bill Russell go to bed

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    Jun 12

    In The Man They Wanted Me to Be, takes a hard look at how outdated definitions of masculinity have given rise to male resentment & entitlement. Join us at Fort Greene tomorrow for a discussion of the book with Sexton & ! RSVP here:

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    Jun 11

    I wrote this essay about Thomas Jefferson, Pharrell, and my old Virginia home for

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    Jun 11

    "Virginia means something now, but that meaning has swelled from our nation’s unrest, a reality that has frightening implications for the livelihood of the state’s most vulnerable." An incredibly powerful, personal piece by :

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  17. Jun 11

    I wrote this essay about Thomas Jefferson, Pharrell, and my old Virginia home for

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    Jun 3

    Tinder Live is THIS FRIDAY at 8pm!! I have special guests (Pod Save America), (Reductress), (NYT Bestselling Author) weighing in on my Tinder live, while you vote who I swipe on. You dont wanna miss it!

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    May 30

    Just a little over a week until Tinder Live with me, at & I can't freaking wait. Go get tickets I can't wait to see who you choose for me to match with & then obviously (not) fall in love with (at all).

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