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Part memoir, part rebel yell of a love letter to
idiosyncratic young Black men(Kirkus Reviews)
Black millennial shares life lessons with his younger brother through the lens of punk rock.
Maximum Shelf: Boyz n the Void(Shelf Awareness)
Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother is an entertainingly discursive ode to the power of punk by writer and punk musician G’Ra Asim.
In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom(Washington Post)
In the opening chapter of “Boyz N the Void,” author G’Ra Asim recounts a years-ago confrontation with his AP Literature teacher, during his senior year of high school.
American Idiolect by G’Ra Asim (BOMB Magazine)
An annotation of Fefe Dobson’s “Stupid Little Love Song” excerpted from the essay collection Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother.
Energy, irreverence, and imagination: Punk and literature collide for new professor G’Ra Asim(Student Life)
G’Ra Asim, a new assistant professor of English at Washington University teaching Creative Nonfiction, can often be found either in front of an undergraduate classroom or at center stage of a punk rock concert — both places he feels comfortable.
Awesome Playlist on Blackness, Punkness, and Writing
Yourself Out of the Void(Beacon Broadside)
When millennial writer and punk rocker G’Ra Asim noticed his teenaged brother, Gyasi, going through the same paces and challenges he went through at that age..
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