# Hanif Abdurraqib

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Anonymous #50 — Is It Okay to Have Made Peace With Dying When They Need You to Stay?

Content note: This conversation includes discussion around a terminal diagnosis and a period of chronic suicidality. If you aren't in the right space for this today, that's ok. This week's caller is the other half of last week's conversation, the one living inside the diagnosis instead of beside ...

Bill Blackwell on 50 Years as Bob Seger's Tour Manager | Living for the City Full Interview

Bill Blackwell has been Bob Seger's tour manager for 50 years, a career that puts him at the center of Detroit's rock and roll story from the sock hops of the late 1960s through stadium tours decades later. This is his full conversation with host Hanif Abdurraqib. Blackwell traces Seger's reg ...

Episode 33: Legacy, Gathering, and Nature

This month we touch on books that explore heritage, community, and the natural world. One Grand ReadThere's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib Cheryl’s Books:  A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems by Hanif AbdurraqibHannah Coulter by Wendell BerryBees by Wojciech G ...

Guest Spotlight: Alex Garland & Hanif Abdurraqib

Michael Kosta sits down with award-winning director and writer, Alex Garland, to discuss his new film, "Civil War," his intentions for inspiring conversation amongst viewers, and journalism's importance to America's checks and balances system. Also, best-selling author, Hanif Abdurraqib, joins M ...

Arizona's Abortion Ban Sends Trump and the GOP Reeling | Hanif Abdurraqib

Michael Kosta reports on the fallout from Arizona’s nearly complete abortion ban, sending the GOP into scramble mode. Plus, Jordan Klepper joins Kosta for an enlightening new segment, “Men Talk About Abortion.” Also, are you a politician afraid of going viral for falling down the stairs? Worry n ...

Teams We're Concerned About

It's the last pre-season ep of the pod, and we're announcing the first-ever pod CONTEST! Jana and Neil deep-dive into 8 teams they're concerned about this season and share some personal season concerns as well, namely, is Jana being forced to watch too much hockey?? We also introduce the first I ...

Don Was on Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, and His Own Voice | Living for the City Full Interview

Don Was is a Detroit native who went from playing bar gigs and gypsy weddings around the city to producing the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, and Bob Dylan, and eventually running Blue Note Records. This is his full conversation with host Hanif Abdurraqib. Was traces the raw, unpretentious sound ...

Guilty Simpson on J Dilla and Detroit's Open Mic Scene | Living for the City Full Interview

Guilty Simpson is a Detroit MC and one of the few artists J Dilla chose to build an entire album around, a rapper whose commitment to craft and storytelling represents the city's hip hop underground at its most rigorous. This conversation was recorded in Detroit on what would have been J Dilla's ...

Grief and the cost of outsourcing feeling

Hanif Abdurraqib lives his life heart-forward. His writing is informed by the many losses he's endured, but also by his commitment to "love deeply" and to not let machines do his thinking and feeling for him. Doing so, he says, risks atrophying our hearts and minds. "For me, the cost of a heart ...

Liz Warner on Electrifying Mojo and Detroit Techno | Living for the City Full Interview

Liz Warner is an award-winning journalist and the host of Alternate Take on WDET, Detroit's NPR affiliate, where she explores music and culture in the city's most freewheeling register. This is her full conversation with host Hanif Abdurraqib. Warner traces Detroit radio's role as a source of c ...