G'Ra Asim's new book is framed as advice to his younger brother.
When G’Ra Asim was 13, he stumbled on a book that would change his life.
The Maryland teen was at a book signing for “Real World” star Kevin Powell, whose anthology of poetry and essays featured a contribution from Asim’s father, Jabari. (
Jabari Asim was book editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before spending a decade-plus at the Washington Post, and Powell was an old family friend.)
But it wasn’t Powell’s book that caught Asim’s eye. It was a paperback called “The Philosophy of Punk.”