Interview: Hanif Abdurraqib, Writer and Cultural Critic, on the NBA Playoffs and the Romantic Anguish of Fandom

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode, Jessica Luther talks with Hanif Abdurraqib, poet, essayist and cultural critic, about his love for basketball. They break down the NBA playoffs, WNBA expansion and the romanticized anguish of fandom. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down.
0:02.6	And I'm thrilled to burn it all down.
0:10.7	The feminist sports podcast you need, Jessica here.
0:13.8	Today, I am thrilled to welcome Hanif Adiravqqqqqib to the show.
0:19.0	Hanif is one of the most beautiful writers, most interesting thinkers, and most important
0:23.8	cultural critics working today.
0:25.8	If you have not given yourself the pleasure of reading his writing, you must correct
0:30.3	that immediately.
0:31.8	He is the author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Go A Head in the Rain, notes to a tribe called Quest, and the recent A Little Devil in America,
0:41.6	notes and praise of Black Performance, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
0:46.6	He's also a poet and is the author of a volume of poems called A Fortune for Your Disaster.
0:51.7	You can find his writing at a variety of places, including the Paris
0:54.9	Review, The New York Times, Pinwheel, Brooklyn Magazine, and Bleacher Report. He also runs 68 to 05,
1:01.2	a playlist of music, where he commissions essays about music and compiles playlists of music
1:05.9	from different years. He's also very successful in the podcast realm with Object of Sound and Lost Notes
1:12.1	1980. He did a great two-piece podcast series with the 11th titled Time Machine, and I
1:17.9	recently heard him on a wonderful episode of Still Processing about TV theme songs. He's also a
1:22.9	MacArthur fellowship recipient, meaning he got one of those so-called genius grants. And perhaps most importantly,
1:28.3	you can tell me, Hanif, he's from and loves Columbus, Ohio. So while we're going to touch on
1:34.3	some of this maybe in the interview, he is primarily here at Burn It All Down today to talk about
1:39.4	the NBA, his own fandom, and these current playoffs. Welcome to Furn it all down it all down Hanif yeah thank you so much
1:47.2	for having me it's really great to be here i actually first wanted to ask about soccer yeah because
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