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Jabari AsimFall for the Book
Jabari Asim is the Deputy Editor of the Washington Post Book World, a syndicated columnist on politics, social issues, and popular culture, and the author most recently of The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't and Why.Before joining the Post, Asim worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and his reviews and cultural criticism have also been published in the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Detroit News, and The Village Voice, among other publications.As a poet, playwright and fiction writer, Asim has published work in a number of anthologies and literary magazines, including In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, Beyond The Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art.In 2000, he published The Road to Freedom, his first novel for young readers, and in 2001, he edited Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on the Law, Justice and Life.