Black Nerd Problems: Essays
William Evans and Omar Holmon
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Black Nerd Problems: Essays
William Evans and Omar Holmon
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
As a Black man myself, I appreciated the choice to not over explain the Black references. Doing so would have made them seem less culturally significant than their white counterparts.
The writing is alternately hilarious, thought-provoking, and passionate, sometimes all within the same essay. The authors' knowledge of all things nerdy is encyclopedic yet the depth at which they connect their subject matter to real-life issues is what makes the book stand out.
Evans and Holmon, cofounders of the website Black Nerd Problems, bring their pop culture criticism to this wide-ranging, compulsively readable debut collection.
The book’s format, switching between the two authors and including essays that work as dialogues, offers the sense of hearing conversations between best friends. The authors provide lighthearted material, such as an excellent essay that describes how Mario Kart shows you exactly the kind of person you really are, as well as serious inquiry.